The New Camera for Street Photography

It’s so easy to fall down the well of “need great gear to make great pictures.” It’s a compelling argument. It’s why camera manufacturers get celebrities to endorse their gear. Sometimes even celebrity photographers. Gear has it’s own eco-system of advertising and reviews that feed more advertising. It’s complicated. But taking pictures shouldn’t be. Chase Jarvis kicked things off with the “Best... Read More

August 2011 Wallpaper

So last week I made the call to go to SCCA’s Solo National Championship again this year. It’s been a tough year across the board—and I’m still feeling a little behind to be honest, but I’ve actually got two of the best co-drivers on the planet so it’s hard to say no. Besides, there’s a therapeutic aspect of spending a week on an airport runway in Lincoln, Nebraska, right? Anyhow, you’re probably wondering—what... Read More

September 2010 Wallpaper

In honor of being at the 2010 SCCA National Solo Championships this week, we’ll go with some worn out, texture-rich, corded racing tire goodness. Grab a MacBook nice size above, or jump to a cinema display or old school 4:3 flavor if that’s your thing.  Read More

Cords

A couple of weeks ago I managed to get away to a Solo Pro Driving School. Grabbed the Type R which Jim had loaded up with 8 Hoosiers and took my chances. This was the extreme school and it’s literally an entire season’s worth of autocross in two days, with top level instructors telling you what you’re doing wrong. Then showing you data to back it up. You could also just call it awesome. I’d apparently been developing horrible... 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

And we’re back. . .

Got back on Thursday. Looks like the WordPress iPhone application managed to eat a post instead of. . . well. . . posting it. Not sure where it went, but essentially it was saying we were coming back. And included the photo here (taken on the iPhone). I have to say that aside from that glitch, the iPhone was nothing short of fantastic when I had a signal or a good WiFi access. Spent a good chunk of Friday, drinking coffee and doing a course edit on... Read More