Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

So, 2011 has been a very hard year for a variety of reasons. Last week Steve Jobs died. While you can’t say it was unexpected, it was shocking. Maybe it’s a culmination of all the stuff Laura and I have been through this year, but Jobs passing hit a nerve. Thousands of people have written about him and his passing. What it means. What his legacy is. Many of those authors, like myself, had never met the man. And while some of those words... Read More

Goodbye St. John and iPhonetography

We left St. John yesterday. Back to the grind of the real world. The good news is that I’ve got a 147 frames to edit through, so I can sort of relive things for a little while. I snapped these two shots with the iPhone on the ferry and had posted them to my Flickr account, Twitter and Facebook before we set foot on St. Thomas. (There’s still some issues with the WordPress iPhone app that need to be worked out a bit.) I’ve gotten... Read More

Aperture Stacks Rock

So, it’s not ground breaking stuff here. None at all really. But some Fridays, you can’t help but state the obvious: The Stacks feature in Aperture kicks ass. Really. Sure it’s pretty obvious in the motorsports stuff. Knowing that I can rattle off a long sequence of shots, turn on the auto-stack feature when I import and then quickly scan the sequence for which image captures the best moment. But I’ve also been using it for... Read More