Author Archives: James

More crap for me 0

I posted a bit ago about some dream items (all photography) of mine that I perhaps suggested would make a good gift for my 40th birthday in August. I’ve been doing some thinking and, what the hell, here’s a few others… Steinhart Ocean-1 Vintage New running shoes, or a gift certificate to the local CDA [...]

A few of my favorite web tools 0

Browser – Firefox My browser of choice for a while now has been Firefox. I used to use stuff like Networker, SlimBrowser and Maxthon which are all built upon the Internet Explorer engine and therefore are basically a different interface plopped on top of IE. The main reason I used them was for the tabbed [...]

A guy can dream, can’t he? 1

The big four-oh is approaching for me, just a few months away in August. Since it’s a bit of a milestone I say lets celebrate it appropriately with wildly expensive gifts. Why not? Therefore, here are a few things, trinkets, really, that would be spiffy to see on that most exciting of days where I [...]

Spokane River HDR 0

Yup, that’s my Pop 0

Nikon D90 w/ Nikon 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5 Exposure: 1/60 Aperture: f/5.6 Focal Length: 70mm ISO Speed: 250 Flash: On, Nissin Di622 Speedlight, bounced off left wall

Miranda posing 0

We were sitting around in the bedroom in the early evening and I was messing with the camera a bit. I wanted to experiment with flash positions a bit: bouncing off the ceiling, wall, behind me, etc. so I used Miranda as my test subject. She really hammed it up, posing and smiling for several [...]

Quite a Talent 0

Originally uploaded by Olivia Bee I first came across flickr photographer Olivia Bee thanks to an American Photo magazine from early last year. In the issue they highlighted a handful of talented and diverse photographers on flickr. What makes this photographer stand out is she’s only sixteen (maybe seventeen) years old and has talent far [...]

Chalk Art 1