Summer was out in the rain this afternoon and came in soaked through. A couple of minutes on the spin cycle seemed like such a good idea at the time…

I should’ve posted these months and months ago. Wisconsin in late winter – I always love ice on Lake Michigan!

Cats belong in libraries. Obviously.

Some more pictures of Craigton Cemetery from yesterday:

I’m really happy with how these turned out. I think that’s partly because all I had in mind was taking pictures I’d like, rather than taking pictures that would sell. I need to remember to do that more often!

Anyone who’s been following this journal for any time will be aware that I love graveyards.
When I moved here 15 years ago I fairly soon went down to the local Craigton Cemetery to take a few snaps. But I didn’t find it terribly interesting. And since it wasn’t in the way of anywhere I [...]

Hmmm…
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0902/09021806canon17mm24mmTSElenses.asp
I wonder if the old 24mm TS-E lens will come down in price after May?

Last night I had a random thought to make some pictures with an old fountain pen I use. I didn’t end up with what I’d had in my head last night, but I do like them all the same.
Natural light (right by the window on a snowy morning) and a white card reflector to [...]

Something to go back to when feeling uninspired: http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2009/archives/2994 – Chris Orwig guest blogging at Scott Kelby’s site.

I’m not sure that what I was doing was dumb, but I did a major rework of the internals to do the page parsing in a much dirtier way and that gave a massive speedup. Thankfully! It was really pretty horrible. Now it’s very reasonable.
The poor response of the istock site is [...]

Released the first beta of LiveStock on the iStock forums a week ago.  I’ve been using it all the time since before then and I’m really pretty happy with how it’s been working out.  I’m liking Android development much more than the Sidekick development I did.
LiveStock now digs a level deeper to show details of [...]