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Let’s say you want to improve the Wikipedia page for Clayton Indiana with an aerial photograph. Feel free to use the one above. That’s why I shot it, posted it, and licensed it permissively. It’s also why I put a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, education, Photography, Places
Tagged aerial, Geography, Photography, sony a7iv
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Making useful photographs
What does it mean when perhaps hundreds of thousands of one’s photos appear in articles, essays and posts all over the Web? It means they’re useful. That’s why I posted the originals in the first place, and licensed them to … Continue reading
Saving High Mountain
I’ve long thought that the most consequential thing I’ve ever done was write a newspaper editorial that helped stop development atop the highest wooded hilltop overlooking the New York metro. The hill is called High Mountain, and it is … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, history, Journalism, News, Past, Personal, publishing, Technology
Tagged High Mountain, Journalism, New Jersey, Photography, Wayne
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Dear Adobe, Please buy Flickr
Flickr is far from perfect, but it is also by far the best online service for serious photographers. At a time when the center of photographic gravity is drifting form arts & archives to selfies & social, Flickr remains both … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Culture, Future, Internet, Photography
Tagged Adobe, Business, flickr, Photography, yahoo
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Manners vs. Mores
Until her Supreme Court nomination turned Elena Kagan into big-time news fodder, there was not an abundance of great pictures of her to be found on the Web. Among the better ones to be found were a couple I had … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Blogging, history, Journalism, News, Photography, Politics, problems
Tagged Elena Kagan, Harvard Law School, Photography, Supreme Court, Tea party
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An appeal for open cameras
David Siegel, author of the excellent new book Pull, shares with me an abiding frustration with all major camera makers — especially the Big Two: Canon and Nikon: they’re silos. They require lenses that work only on their cameras and … Continue reading
Posted in Future, Gear, history, Photography, problems
Tagged "Stephen Lewis", cameras, Canon, David Siegel, EOS 30D, EOS 5D, film, Nikon, Photography, Sigma, Sony, Tamron, Zeiss
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Ice stories
For most of Winter in the Northeast, skating is possible only during the somewhat rare times when the ice is thick and not covered with snow or other unwelcome surface conditions. And bad skating has been the story, typically, for … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Future, Geology, history, Life, Past, Photography, Places, Sports
Tagged Frederic Tudor, hockey, Photography, Spy Pond, The Ice King
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Fun with Infrastructure
Last month The Kid and I went to the top of the Empire State Building on the kind of day pilots describe as “severe clear.” I put some of the shots up here, and just added a bunch more here, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, infrastructure, Photography, Places, Science, Technology, UCSB
Tagged Alford, Empire State Building, infrastructure, Photography
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