Peace Japan!

For last year’s project 365 I used an iPhone app called My365. It’s made by a Japanese company, and as a result there a lot of Asian users. In many of the photos, people flash the peace sign in addition to (or instead of) smiling at the camera. I find it somewhat bizarre, and I …

Project 365

I’ve been wanting to do a project 365 (taking a photo every day) for the past few years, but I just couldn’t follow though. I just never had my camera with me at all times, and I wouldn’t even get through January. There was also the issue of trying to take a great photo every …

Don’t Film Police At Work

This On Point podcast really got me upset: Turn Off That Camera! Filming The Police At Work Dashboard cams in police cars are ubiquitous. Yet police are pushing back against Americans capturing them at work on cell phone cameras. Arresting people filming arrests. Is that right? I understand that police wouldn’t want to be videotaped …

Happy Photo Accidents

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from photography, is that you don’t always know what your best shot will be. Sometimes I spend a lot of time planning and setting up a photo, shooting multiple photos from various vantage points, only to be disappointed by every one of them. Then other times I’ll shoot a …

HDR Photography

I’ve never really been a fan of HDR images. There are a lot of examples on Flickr; some really boost the colors to near-cartoon levels, and others push their photos to a have a more dreamlike look. While many are interesting, I don’t want that look for my photos, so I decided I didn’t like …

2009 in Photos

Boston.com’s The Big Picture published their three-part Year in Photos of amazing and moving shots: part 1, part 2, part 3.