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WordPress 2.9 is out and this is solid update to upgrade to now

This afternoon WordPress 2.9 went from Release Candidate to just plain old released and, yeah this is a good one. I’ve been using 2.9 in it’s early beta incarnations for months now and have been quite happy with it. I … Continue reading

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Going to the Burnaby Board of Trade meeting tonight? Let me take your picture

Just got the call from a friend of Bradley’s that the Burnaby Board of Trade needs a photographer for their event tonight. Sorry to the folks at Launch Party v6 but I won’t be there this time. [From Burnaby Board … Continue reading

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Going to the Burnaby Board of Trade meeting tonight? Let me take your picture

Just got the call from a friend of Bradley’s that the Burnaby Board of Trade needs a photographer for their event tonight. Sorry to the folks at Launch Party v6 but I won’t be there this time. [From Burnaby Board … Continue reading

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Kris Krug’s photography tips: Learn from these. Really, watch now.

Image by Planetnelson via Flickr One of the photographers who I most aspire to be like, to emulate, get inspiration from is Kris Krug. I think more than any other person his work, example, and encouragement is one of the … Continue reading

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Nikon D300 firmware upgrade gives new features including copyright info

One of the best features of DSLRs is the ability to get more features or extended capabilities through firmware upgrades. I had heard rumours that Nikon was prepping an update to the D300’s firmware, but last time I looked it … Continue reading

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Aviary heats things up with Phoenix online image editor

I’m a huge fan of Picnik. I can do so many cool things with it. It’s snappy, fun, and easy. Now I saw on both RWW and Photojojo reviews of Aviary and it’s online photo editor Phoenix and my first … Continue reading

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FlickrDown: Great Utility or Threat to Intellectual Property?

I caught from Brian Solis—FlickrDown Pulls Pictures from the Cloud to Your PC — bub.blicio.us—and DownloadSquad—posts about FlickrDown and thought, wow that sounds cool until I read this comment on Brian’s post: Brian, it appears this program allows the download … Continue reading

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Media Democracy Day Panels: Journalism in a time of Big Media Domination & The Battle for New Media and Open Communication

I had a great time today at Media Democracy Day. I didn’t get there until after lunch time, but I managed to catch a couple panels and live tweeted them. First was: Journalism in a time of Big Media Domination … Continue reading

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Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty, a photo essay

Fitting that after last night’s Net Tuesday on social media for change, that today is blog action day and that the topic is poverty. I had already decided to do my post as a photo essay. This is my first … Continue reading

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When “whoops” becomes “wow”-a wrong camera setting can give great results

Over the weekend I went to Seattle for a little shopping and while Sheila was browsing bead stores (she makes amazing jewelry), I took pictures around the stores. At our last stop I was playing with small apertures for some … Continue reading

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Learning by doing: Experimenting with high dynamic range and Lightroom

Today we had the October edition photowalk around Vancouver with the VanDigiCam group. We started around Terminal and Main and then meandered around until we found ourselves at the Cambie St. Bridge. What a fantastic night for a photowalk. The … Continue reading

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