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11 Tips for Sparkling Fireworks Photos. Just in time for Canada Day tomorrow….

Unphotographable: a text account of pictures missed. This is a picture I did not a take of a man moving the case of beer he’d been carrying — most likely from the Beer Store three blocks away — to his…

I also forgot to post about my experiment with Ground Glass Photography. I shot these ground glass photos last week. Instead of using a Kodak Duaflex, which I do own, I used an Argus Super Seventy-five. It was a lot…

I was going to post about one of my favourite blogs, Swirlee being out of the hiatus project yesterday but totally forgot. Jordan posts the coolest links. You should check it out….

Orangutwang is the name of this flash game. There’s no typo there. I haven’t played any online game lately so my game-playing skills are now worse than ever and that might explain why I find this game very frustrating. You…

Well, about the concert on Saturday, I think the website pretty much says it all. There were long lines for food and for washroom usage. They anticipated it by allowing the concertgoers to bring in food (they originally didn’t)…

Reading Great Photographers on the Internet (a satire) at The Online Photographer led me to this Flickr post where a photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson (one of the masters of photography) was submitted to a Flickr photo critique group, the notorious…

Rockin’ Photography: How to Shoot Great Concert Photos. Unfortunately, we’re only allowed to bring point-and-shoot cameras to the concert we’re going to tomorrow so I can’t really practice all the tips. Oh well. I’ll see what I can do. So,…

We’re watching the series premiere of NBC’s talent show “America’s Got Talent” and it’s hilarious. If it’s anything like “American Idol”, it would probably get pretty lame once it gets to the next stage. But I’ll definitely stick around for…

If you need a header image but are lacking the design skills to create one yourself, browse this collection of Free Web Page Headers and see if there’s something you like. The headers come in small (800×200) and large (1600×200)…

Opera 9 browser is now available for download. This new version has built-in BitTorrent support so no need for a separate BitTorrent application to download torrent files. I think it’s pretty sweet….

I’d seen pictures taken with a peephole before but this $11 Super Wide Angle Digital Camera article that I came across last week was what made me want to actually shoot with a peephole. We picked up a peephole on…

If I had $200 laying around, I’d SO buy Troy this USB recordable turntable. Troy has a fairly large vinyl collection. It would be so cool if we could turn them into MP3 files because then we’d be able to…

I want zefrank’s red ceci n’est pas une ducky t-shirt, size XL. Did I ever tell you that all my favourite t-shirts are red?…

As per Neil’s suggestion, I used the MultiBlog Plugin by David Raynes to combine the feeds. I did everything in under 5 minutes. The plugin is really that helpful. Now everyone can enjoy the links from the comfort of their…

How to Shoot Impromptu Street Portraits. I would really like to try this. Only one problem: I’m super, super shy towards people I don’t really know….

I’ve been trying to redesign my weblog for months now but I still haven’t come up with a design that I really like, so I thought I’d just try to improve the existing design and add some elements that…

These wonderful scans of fruits and vegetables are definitely worth checking out….

What is Beauty? Or, On the Aesthetics of Wind Farms is a pretty interesting article. Beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder. I, for one, find those wind turbines fascinating….

Ground Glass Photography is something that I’ve been wanting to try but keep forgetting to. Kodak Duaflex cameras seem to be the popular choice for this type of photography….

GROW ver. 2 is out! It makes me happy. La la la! Can’t wait to beat it….

Another weekend has come and gone. I don’t think we did much. Went to see The Da Vinci Code on Friday night, which was entertaining. I haven’t read the book and anything entertaining is good in my book so…

It’s been a week since the last time I posted an entry so I thought it’s about time for another entry. Not that there’s much to report, if any. The last week or so had been spent trying to…