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Sun
Backlit by the sun, taken with an iPhone. Sitting at breakfast I noticed the backlit bottles on our window sill, seen through the window blind. The sun is the supreme light source. As a pinpoint...
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Business and Creativity
This weekend I am attending ASMP’s Strictly Business 3 series of talks and seminars for professional photographers. In this time of immense change in technology and in the economics of the photography...
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Lightroom to WordPress Plugin
It has been barely more than a full year since we migrated our blog from Blogger to WordPress. The experience has been overall positive (with the expected growing pains and hiccups in between). I think...
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April Fools’ Snow
Snow on April Fool's Day, view from my yard in Havertown, PA This week I have been trying to dream up a humorous and believable April Fool’s Day blog post, but I haven’t come up with one. Instead...
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Boys vs Girls in Toy Ads
The blog, The Achilles Effect, has a post showing the frequency of words that are used in TV ads for toys marketed to boys vs. those for girls. The author, Crystal Smith, took the word frequency lists...
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School vs Work
A reader has posted a question on one of my earlier blog posts, TJ Swafford Says: Question: I’m currently involved in a speeeeeeeeeendy photography degree at SCAD, Do I even NEED this degree to be...
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Hollywood Photo
While photographing an apartment building in Philadelphia we encountered the Hollywood Photo truck. I imagine the owner of the Hollywood Photo truck makes his/her living photographing at events where...
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Janus
Lee and Laurence Tamaccio. We’d like to think that things from 2000 years ago don’t impact our modern technological world, but they do. The calendar on my iPhone reads January, named after the Roman...
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God Made A Farmer
With the Super Bowl, watching the ads can be as entertaining as the game itself. The Chrysler ad for their trucks really stood out for me because it uses still images and no live motion. The...
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I Hate Daylight Savings Time
Some of the 17 clocks I changed for Daylight Savings Time. Changing 17 clocks is a drag. Twice a year when daylight savings time starts or ends, I’ve got to adjust numerous clocks. And I need to...
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