Tag Archives: Photography

Places

Posted on October 18, 2022 by Doc Searls

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 →

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Clearing things up

Posted on February 18, 2022 by Doc Searls

Back in 2009 I shot the picture above from a plane flight on approach to SFO. On Flickr (at that link) the photo has had 16,524 views and has been faved 420 times as of now. Here’s the caption: These … Continue reading →

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Making useful photographs

Posted on May 19, 2021 by Doc Searls

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 →

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Saving High Mountain

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Doc Searls

  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 →

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Dear Adobe, Please buy Flickr

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Doc Searls

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 →

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Another shot down the lens barrel

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Doc Searls

Hey, this is cool: CoolLAj Magazine includes this shot in La La Land at It’s Best: Photos of LA: It was near the end of a series of flights from Copenhagen to Santa Barbara, and easily the best of the … Continue reading →

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Manners vs. Mores

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Doc Searls

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 →

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An appeal for open cameras

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Doc Searls

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 →

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Ice stories

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Doc Searls

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 →

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Fun with Infrastructure

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Doc Searls

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 →

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