Summer doesn't officially start until the solstice on June 21, so even though it feels very much like summer outside, we can still call it spring. Here is a gallery of photographs taken recently in our garden (on the 9th) with my PEN E-P2 and the 12-50mm lens, which does double duty as a macro … Continue reading Late spring in our garden
I think I started posting my own photos online sometime in 2002-2003. During all this time, two things have remained the same: the overall ignorance of most web users about photographic copyright and the duplicity of some social media websites in keeping their users ignorant about the topic. Most images uploaded to social media are … Continue reading Photography and social media: still a recipe for copyright issues
One foggy autumn morning, I took some photographs... and here they are 😁. I love fog almost as much as I love thick snowfall, and for the same reasons: the air of mystery, the white shroud enveloping everything, the quiet, the timeless quality and mood... oh, I could go on and on... This particular morning, … Continue reading A foggy autumn morning
I reviewed Google's Backup and Sync service back in December. There were several issues with the service that I outlined in there, such as the app backing up files that it was not supposed to back up, the service counting files toward the quota even though it was supposed to compress them and allow unlimited … Continue reading A follow-up to my review of Google’s Backup and Sync
Here's something I've observed in my own use of social media websites: most of the time they're so sticky that when I click on an interesting article to read it, I tend to skim through it in order to get back to the social media site where it was posted. Why? My rationale to myself … Continue reading Social media and time spent on websites that produce original content
I purchased this PEN E-P3 just a few days ago, to add it to my collection of Olympus PEN cameras. As I mentioned in my previous post, I now have all the PEN models except the PEN-F. I love PEN cameras because they are the smallest full-featured cameras out there. Yes, there are smaller cameras, … Continue reading My Olympus PEN E-P3
Several days ago, I purchased a PEN E-P1. I've been thinking about a number of years of collecting all the digital PEN cameras that Olympus has made. I'm not referring to the PL (Pen Lite) or PM (Pen Mini) camera lines, which were launched alongside the regular PEN cameras in an effort to provide lower-cost … Continue reading My Olympus PEN E-P1
