Jaromir Jagr’s 2nd goal puts the Rangers up 3-0. Stanley Cup Playoffs, 2nd round, Game 4. May 1, 2008

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Due to rain last night some town had postponed their 4th of July fireworks. Millburn, NJ was one of them

Spring is here and I’m well on my way to filling my quota of pretty pictures of flowers.

They do. really do, and I never do a good enough job of pointing their efforts out. So here are a few new products to check out.

Davin Risk’s new print on demand photo book I have been where you are just arrived. 118 pages of great photos, some from his Flickr stream.

Samia Saleem and many other designers originally from the New Orleans area have gotten together to create the Degrees of Separation project and together have released a postcard book with their post Katrina responses with some proceeds going to local AIGA efforts.

Jemma and the team at Sans Nom have just posted images of a sweet new laser etched skateboard deck for Refill Magazine’s 7 Laserdeck Skateboard Show. Photos on the site are a must see.

Seems like a good time for a little update on my contributions to other sites around the internets…

I’m looking for your vote, if you think the shot is worthy, on this image of seedlings for the JPG Magazine ‘Breakthrough’ theme for their next issue.

And last weekend was the Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown, the weather was pretty good and the costumes better. A bunch of photos from the event are now up in a new Flickr Set

For digital photographers, particularly people shooting any sort of volume of RAW files you may find you need a better workflow for ‘development’ and organization of the photographs then simply storing the files on your file system and then opening a few at a time in Adobe Photoshop. Into that gap has come a few new applications including Apple’s Aperture. More recently, Adobe has finished work on its Lightroom application and moved it from a long public period to an official 1.0 release.

With that release two professional photographers and bloggers, Micah Walter and Michael Clark, have committed their time and expertise to putting both Aperture and Lightroom through the paces on a typical week or so of shooting and editing.

• Micah Walter’s shootout intro
• Michael Clark’s intro

Both photographers have started posting their day to day thoughts after working with he applications, and the articles are both interesting and informative. Versions and Stacking, for example. Contrast that with posts like Aperture in Somalia, may be a little light on the details that feed your curiosity about the applications they are rich in story and images.

My own application of choice since the first time I used a beta has been Adobe Lightroom, but I have been planning on looking at both Aperture and Nikons own Capture NX before pulling the trigger on the 1.0 license.

Yay! I really dug the free 10 pack of Flickr MiniCards from Moo.com and had to have more. Now my order of 100 is on their way.

Lately it seems I’ve been carrying some bad luck with me when it comes to interesting photographic subjects around town.

Case 1: The Delicious Chicken Dinners sign.

Now gone after the store got a new awning.

Case 2: The old swing set at a nearby park.

Now removed along with some other (newer?) climbing things.

JPG Magazine, started by Derek Powazek and Heather Powazek Champ a few years ago, went through some big changes a few issues ago and have turned themselves into a very creative take on using a ‘community’ to submit to and create content for their print magazine (yes, I said print).

They’ve taken the high road and have made their site about collecting and sharing quality photographs and have added themes for each issue that users can submit to, get ranked, and perhaps get included in a future issue.

I’ve been watching with interest, and enjoying the photographs others have posted but not made a submission of my own until now. So allow me to take the low road and ask you to vote on whether you’d like this photo to be part of the “Embrace the Blur” theme for issue 8.

This shot of mine was taken from this set.

[EDIT: Though I do have to say as I hack away at things to make my post not look busted, their javascript embedded vote link is a bit rough and hacky]

Been much to silent around these parts for a number of different reasons, including…

• Juggling a heavy work load on a few different projects, hopefully some of which will see the light of day soon.
• Been spending my free time outside trying to catch the tail end of the nice weather and the beginning of the fall color change and shooting with my new Nikon D80.
• Dealing with intermittent hardware issues with my main machine (which is now sitting in the Apple Store for repairs).

Hopefully I can get past the next week or two and then get back to the regular posting schedule. In the mean time you can still keep up with my pictures, bookmarks, and other goodies at Place Name Where?.

Five year ago today, on September 11, 2001, I was on my way to the work but never got there. The commute at the time was a NJ Transit train to Hoboken and then the PATH train to 9th Street where I got out and then walked across Broadway to the office. I made it to Hoboken shortly after one of the planes hit the towers and by then all transportation there was shut down and I was let wandering Hoboken all day like so many others.

Gallery

When putting together this gallery and looking through the photos I had taken and digesting it all I wrote:

Look elsewhere for words. I have not yet found any that does what I saw justice.

I still don’t have the right words to describe the events, and 5 years later I fear the attempt would only be muddied by feelings about the events and changes that have taken place since.

Does the world need another Web2.0 Community Video Sharing Massive Group Social Networking site? Treemo thinks so, and I might agree.

On my trip through my feed reader this morning I ran across a post by Jason Kottke talking about how he recently picked up a Kodak Duaflex II camera in hopes of taking some digital shots through the lenses of the old camera.

It just so happens I had sitting on my shelf as decoration (has a few cracks and dings that prevented me from trying to use it for its intended purposes) a Duaflex III. 4 minutes with the cardboard insert from an Amazon shipment for the sides of the hood and the last bits of a roll of gaffers tape and I have my own TTV ‘contraption’.

Operation is a bit awkward given I’m not using an SLR, but a smaller Nikon 995, and I need to spend some time looking for the right focus and zoom settings to get the best results, but it shows promise. Here’s one of my first test shots (no out of camera processing):

I only had the time to give it a try and see if I can focus it and if I’ve cut off any glare (pretty good). Hopefully I’ll have some time this week to take it out for some real use.

[Warning: The following post is not safe for Molly.]

Picking my head up from a few projects to pimp my latest flickr postings… My South Mountain Reservation Photo Set is about to hit 80 photos. All taken during my various strolls around the area including these from this past Saturday: