Hasselblad H3D-39 or How Mortals Can Go Broke

Today I received an email from Hasselblad extolling the virtues of its new H3Dii camera and imporning me to buy it. However, the email neglected to tell me how much it costs. For that I had to do a search beyond Hasselblad’s web sites. That explains Hassy’s new marketing strategy: “If you ask [...]

Terrorist Art Critic

History’s first, and probably only, terrorist who was also an art critic was Felix Fénéon. It was he who discovered and promoted the art of Seurat, an example of which I post here. The woman is not nude but she is certainly beautiful and mysterious and makes you want to see the rest [...]

Off to the Grand Canyon

We’re off to the bottom of the Grand Canyon for a week of hiking, camping and reflection. Which is just another way of saying that no new entries will be posted for a week. The internet does not reach to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Nor does electricity either, except at [...]

Adobe’s Damn Dam, Part II

Harumph.  I see that Adobe, hard on the heels of its release of Lightroom and Photoshop CS3, has also just released Elements 6.  I haven’t looked at the new Elements 6 yet but woe betide those people if it has yet another DAM to learn.  DAM, for those of you blissfully ignorant of such matters, [...]

Sexual Harassment, Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill

[I know this is a blog about photography but I'm going slightly afield today because I am in a state of high dudgeon about Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court and his latest book. We'll get back to photography tomorrow. You can read some of the press coverage here and here.
I [...]

Adobe’s Damn DAM

Dear Adobe,
I swear that I will never again by another Adobe product if I, again, have to learn a new Digital Asset Management (DAM) program to use the product. It isn’t worth it. Life is finite and unpredictable. The universe and the timing of all our deaths seems arbitrary and capricious. [...]

Democratization of Photography

We’ve reached the ultimate democratization of photography: Anyone with a point and shoot camera can take a picture and anyone with a computer can start a photography blog and write about the picture.
The question thus arises, “Why should I look at these pictures or read this blog?”
First, these aren’t pictures; they are photographs.
Second, this isn’t [...]