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This past weekend my wife and spent some time in Mendocino, California for our “babymoon”. With 6 weeks to go this was our last trip together before “Baby G” joins us. We stayed in the same place we enjoyed our mini-honeymoon 4 1/2 years ago. It brought back great memories and we had a fun time rediscovering the beautiful landscapes of the lost coast. Epic landscape photography was not the goa

Easy Release A month ago quite a bit of buzz started to circulate with in the Twitter photography community about Easy Release (iTunes Link), a program that enables you to create model and property releases on your iPhone incorporating a digital signature of subjects and/or property owners. The potential immediately grabbed my attention and I approached the application publisher for a review copy. The review of the a

I wonder what percentage of the population would still agree with the following quote? And for the record the photo below was captured as seen. “Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs.” – Ansel Adams [tags]photography, landscape, stock photo[/tags]

One of my favorite moments when in the field is getting to a location super early in the morning before anyone else shows up to “just be” and feel the pulse of the land. By this I mean I’ll stop what I’m doing, slow my breathing and focus my senses to take in the nature that surrounds me. First I’ll focus my eyes on beautiful features of my surrounding to take it in. Second I’ll cl

The winner of the BorrowLenses.com Lens Rental Giveaway is… Alloncy who was comment #123. Selections were made randomly thanks to the use of the random number generator at Random.org. Extra comments or entries were excluded from the random selection. Additional Specials & Announcements If you’re on Twitter be sure to follow @Borrowlenses as they often announce specials and other discount codes. Add a

It’s been 10 days since the release of Apple’s iPad and in an attempt to avoid blind hyperbole I wanted to get at least a weeks worth of use under my belt before I shared my thoughts on it. Here are 5 important reasons photographers should take note of the iPad. 1. It’s More than just an iPod One of the most common complaints I’ve heard is, “Why pay so much for a big iPod Touch?” I

In no short order the iPad has been receiving a ton of hype since its release, but rather than get sucked into the hype echo chamber I postponed my review until I had sometime to use it. Now that 10 days have passed and I’ve used my iPad in almost every way conceivable here is my review. iPad Impressions The Apple iPad is a really slick device. It has a great feel to it. It’s balanced, fits well in your h

Adobe today is releasing the full creative suite of CS5 products including Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended ($699 and $999 respectively with CSx upgrades costing $199). The newest features added to PS CS5 include: 64-bit native code for Mac and PC (Mac had been 32-bit previously) Content-Aware Fill … “magically removes any image detail or object, examines the surroundings and seamlessly fill