TL;DR:January 1, 2022 marked the completion of 10 years taking a photo every day!A 10 year milestone is a nice time to wrap this up and shift my focus to other exciting photo projects 🙂 How it began: Back in 2012 I began a simple challenge: take at least one photo every day. Some photographers … Read more
I should have given in to this a long time ago… Maintaining my own 365 website feels cool, but it was just too isolated and I never could find the time to make it look and feel how I wanted, (was too hard to navigate and share/like photos). I found a WordPress plugin to help … Read more
Exactly 1 year ago today I left on my first trip overseas to visit Greece! This also means I’ve been putting off making this post for 1 year. Instead of continuing procrastinating writing an amazing post for another year, I’m going to just share my raw notes I took right after the trip. I think … Read more
Back in 2012 I embarked on a journey that has changed the way I live, forever, for the better. I originally began a “photo 365” project years ago (beginning of 2012), as a way to force my self to go take pictures each day with my new DSLR. Very quickly, the project became a lifestyle, and … Read more
I have some very exciting news! A few of my photos of Midtown Atlanta Georgia are now featured as the backdrop of the WSB-TV Channel 2 news station! Though most people viewing don’t think too much about the “generic” city images on display behind newscasters, I now understand some of the behind-the-scenes of how that picture gets selected. … Read more
Today Google released an app “Cardboard Camera” for Android in the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.vr.cyclops A free app to create 3D virtual reality photos (stereoscopic 3D 360° panoramas). VR Photography The app takes a three-dimensional panorama you can view in the Google Cardboard app. The result is a 360° image where near things look near, far things look … Read more
This post is dedicated to my sister Erin. Erin made me a diy scrapbook of inspirational quotes about life, funny images, and some inside jokes. This is by far the most thoughtful gift I’ve ever recieved in my life. I truly treasure the book and her very dearly. Thank you, Erin. Every time I flip through the … Read more
What can you do with an image that has a depth value for every pixel? Try out this 3D WebGL image processing viewer to see! Use the sliders/controls below, and mouse over + click the images! Loading… [WebGL capable browser needed to see this content] There are an order of magnitude more possibilities of new … Read more
About 10 days ago, I received a Google Plus notification late one night that some random person commented-on and re-shared one of my photos: … and I thought, “Oh how nice, someone outside my group of friends stumbled upon one of my photos?  That is kind of cool!” I was excited for all of 2 mins … Read more
Infrared Photos In Lightroom I came across this excellent Gimp infrared tutorial not long ago, and it got me excited to try some infrared photo processing. Being a recent Lightroom addict, I found it annoying that Lightroom does not support color channel mixing, and having to constantly export-edit-import slowed my workflow. In doing a bit of research … Read more