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Advice for beginning photographers
Over the years I’ve come to the realization that no singular type of informational source is fully acceptable. As people we have five physical senses and being such, we relate better with multiple formats of learning.
For learning photography there isn’t one “perfect” site to stick with. Each decent site has its strengths, but each [...]
New Textures – Two Introductory Sets
When I was young I just wanted to make stuff for the pleasure of it. When I got older I was told that wasn’t a way to make a living.
I disagree. God made things for a living so I guess those people’s attempts to civilize me into a common worker bee never quite stuck [...]
Will Blog For Food
I love it when people blog and use the photography I post up on flickr. This has got to be one of the best uses of flickr around, and as long as people aren’t posting my silly mug up on posterboards or commercials without my consent I have practically no concern on the matter. [...]
flickr loves me
Just noticed this morning that flickr changed the tag-line above their logo from “gama” (which is a stage in development before release) to “loves you”. That means instead of being bombarded with flickr gama rays, we are now adorned with flickr love. *snickr*
Geo Tagging
It’s no secret that I think flickr is one of the best things the internet has to provide. A few months back they got better by adding geo-tagging maps. It’s a mashup between Yahoo Maps (a rip off of Google Maps) and its own API.
Although it has some privacy issues for cameras that automatically [...]
The creative photographer
Joseph O. Holmes | AMNH
Where there are thousands of fantastic photographers there are hundreds of thousands of amateurs who have taken fantastic photographs. I’ve had to think a bit lately about what separates the two. Some very well established photographers have posted work up on Flickr or on their personal site that I thought [...]
Not Yet Flickr Favorites
Every once in a while I come up with what I think would be a totally cool idea. Maybe one out of twenty of those times do I actually spring for it.
Flickr is amazing. It’s API is moderately impressive, too. I thought: “What if I could go through all the tags of all my favorite [...]
Semantic Web Is Coming to Town
Web 2.0: an Open Door to the Future
In 1987 MCC (a team that later spun off into Cycorp) presented a futuristic concept in a private AI focus group gathering that is common practice today. Large network systems would be taught how to make sense of data through semantics taught by linguists, professors, psychologists, artists and [...]
