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This is one of my favorite landscape photos. While visiting White Sands National Monument in New Mexico an out of season monsoon rolled through. It transformed the landscape. Walking in the middle of no where with the randomly shifting light something new and amazing seemed to be revealed every few seconds. When I look at this photo I can’t help but be transported back to this moment and get lost in the scene e

I’m not sure how this slipped by me, but Wired published a very interesting development in March “Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries“. It’ll be interesting to see how this is used in the future to detect altered photojournalism photos. As we’ve seen repeatedly particularly with the high profile case of Allan Dietrich, previously noted in my post “Ethics of Photography: Career Suicide by

Thanks to Trevor Carpenter’s blog post “Get paid! No one takes advantage of me.” which references my article “The Dark Side of Flickr: Photo Phishing By Corporate America” I remembered a great resource for photographers to reference: EditorialPhoto.com This site is a critical resource for photographer who often are wondering about copyright information, pricing, contracts (particularly t

PDN just released an article in their latest online and print edition titled “Your Friend Flickr?“. It’s an interesting cross section of the current state of Flickr, including it’s lack of commercial support and examples of well known offline transactions that got their start there. It barely touches upon a topic I’ve talked about (see “The Dark Side of Flickr: Photo Phishing By Co

I’m always in awe of how nature can be so beautiful yet elusive. Harbor Seals in particular are quite shy so getting a good photo can be tricky. This Harbor Seal, setting up to take a nap in the kelp, appeared out of no where just as I was calling it a day. [tags]Harbor Seal, seal, wildlife, photography, photo, Monterey, California[/tags]

Photo Taken With An Apple iPhone … Or was it? One of the few things that was not demonstrated at the Macworld 2007 Keynote Address by Steve Jobs was the use of the camera built into the iPhone. Those looking for the first sign of an image from an Apple iPhone seem to have stumbled upon it recently. The EXIF data seems to confirm the image was from an iPhone, but it should be noted it is possible to edit EXIF da

After reading Brian Auer’s blog entry “Who Qualifies As A Photographer?” it got me thinking about a more profound question that was once brought to my attention. When I first became interested in photography I was introduced to the concept of a “photograph” versus a “snapshot”. To be honest when I first heard the definition (see below) I thought it was rather pretentious, but

Sometime ago my friend Oskar approached me with the results of an experiment that was mind blowing. He ran an experiment which enlightened me regarding the aspect of working with JPEG format files that drastically impacts image quality. At the core of Oskar’s observation is that when working with a JPEG file, in many programs (potentially even Photoshop), each alteration made will prompt a save in the program b