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Continue reading →: Tour de France 2006 Route Revealed
Today, the 2006 Tour de France route has been revealed by its organizers. I am very excited about this edition, the first in seven years in which Lance Armstrong will not be participating and dominating. The 2003 Tour was the most exciting in years, primarily because Armstrong was at his…
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Continue reading →: Sulu is gay
Read off the newswire that Sulu from Star Trek is gay. George Takei and his partner, Brad Altman, have been together for 18 years. Takei, a Japanese-American who lived in a U.S. internment camp from age 4 to 8, said he grew up feeling ashamed of his ethnicity and sexuality.…
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Continue reading →: Photo Contests and Underwater Photography
The November 2005 meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group will be held on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) from 7:30-10:30 pm. So, you want to enter a Photo Contest… Underwater Photography
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Continue reading →: Decision Time
I have decided to place an order the Power Mac G5 Quad. I’m still deciding what monitor to get. Should I go all-out and purchase the gigantic 30″ Cinema Display or be conservative and get the Dell 24″ display, which is similar to the 23″ Apple Cinema Display? Alex has…
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Continue reading →: My Photo Workflow
Many people have come up to me asking about my photo workflow. I’ve given presentations on the subject at COBA meetings in the past and in informal emails, but here’s my first stab at it on the Web. With the upcoming release of Aperture and iView Media Pro 3, it’s…
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Continue reading →: Stupid Chargers
I watched the Chargers-Eagles game on ESPN GameCast and on TV, when CBS televised the last 2 minutes of the game. Stupid Chargers! We had the game in-hand except for three critical plays during the fourth quarter: Bob Hallen’s Offensive Holding penalty at the Eagles 1-yard line on first-down. We…
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Continue reading →: iView Media Pro 3 and Assorted Aperture Thoughts
iView Media Pro 3.0 was announced today. The timing of all these photo announcements is not strange, since the Photo Expo is going on this week in New York. Nevertheless, it’s always possible that they rushed their announcement following Aperture’s debut. Aside from the press release, there’s little additional information…
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Continue reading →: Aperture and new PowerMacs
For the longest time, Apple has been neglecting the professional photography market segment, but no longer. Aperture is to digital photography what Final Cut Pro is to digital video. It’s the biggest, most taxing job you have as a photographer. You’ve finished your shoot. You’ve taken thousands of photographs. Now…
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Continue reading →: Photo Collection Size
Quick question to all the readers of this website. How large is your photo collection? 1GB, 5GB, 25GB, or greater? I was talking to a colleague of mine and our estimates differed greatly. I guessed most people have between 25-40GB of photos. He figured that the vast majority of people…
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Continue reading →: Still Waiting
I’m still waiting to purchase a replacement for my 4.5 year old (and counting) PowerMac G4. It’s done a fantastic job over the years, but I’m yearning for a little bit more power and speed from my main desktop machine. Most of the main rumor sites were wrong in thinking…






