A new scam for con artists is to act like a plainclothes policeman and tell you you aren't allowed to take any pictures and ask for your memory card. Nice.

And here I thought I was a little oddball for wandering around with my G7 and my RB67... but apparently everybody else does that too.

Some thoughts based on a conversation I had with a friend quite a few months ago.

I've tried to research black and white developing as much as possible before starting in on it, ranging from the writings of Ansel Adams to modern notes from other folks. It turns out that there's a fairly small number of absolute, un-arguable facts, so I decided to just post my personal opinions.

The real reason why full-frame cameras are so popular? Prestige. At the expense of all other possible digital cameras (notably the DMD concept for a camera)

I love fireworks. I always have. So, every Fourth of July, I'm always excited to go somewhere and take some pictures.

The challenge? Find, buy, or borrow a funky old forgotten camera and run a roll of film through it sometime during the summer.
I've got at least one forgotten camera that would be just perfect for this.

News from around the web about the Nikon D700 full-frame digital SLR and the SB-900 flash.

My first trip into the Anza-Borrego Desert to take some pictures and experiment with some techniques

The thing about the people who still shoot 8x10 and 20x24 polaroid film is that they are most likely to be able to put their mouth where their money is when they say they'll pay whatever it takes.

One of the realizations that came with using a lot of the new Web 2.0 services is that if it's easy to deal with, I'll use it. My queue for articles and pictures to post here has been historically far longer than I actually get around to posting because it takes a fairly long sequence of events to actually post things. There's a lot of stuff that is left over from when I created the site in the space of a weekend so that I'd have something to put on my business card that I could hand out at my first gallery showing.

When I was recently in Philly, I ate at Iron Chef Morimoto's restaurant. And proceeded to "food porn" my way through the meal. It's fun, it's participatory, and I didn't use my flash or try to disturb anybody else. And now some other high-end chef wants to ban this practice...

Apparently a bus-spotter gets called a pedophile and a terrorist by security personnel and so he gave his hobby up after 40 years.

Somebody's writing a documentary about the TFP modeling community, some more thoughts on image theft, and a Leica M8 is shown to be pretty awful for real use in Iraq.

Other blogs I find interesting.