From past visits to this site you might’ve found posts I’ve made featuring a series of images self-stitched together somewhat painstakingly if rudimentarily in Photoshop into side-scrolling panoramas of varying widths, uneven match-ups and differing contrasts. No longer. Today I discovered, Calico Panorama from Kekus Digital, which offers a freeware version of the program (whose …
There’s some sort of sporting event that happens today. I may have to check it out and see what all the fuss is all about. But in the meantime, with Los Angeles basking in 80-plus degree temps and under crispity clear skies, I hauled myself the camera and the tripod up on the roof to …
Maybe something was trying to tell me my time at my temp gig this morning was fleeting but I was only listening subconsciously. Either way, for the 2.5 weeks I’d been working in El Segundo, each time I’d park in the employee parking structure I kept on promising myself I’d drive up to the highest …
In mentioning that I got mentioned in Sunday’s L.A. Times I rhetorically asked if it was greedy of me to want credit for the photo of mine used to illustrate the item. Yesterday I decided it wasn’t and wrote the Times’ readers’ representative: I was initially inclined not to make an inquiry because I appreciated …
It wasn’t to long ago that on a Tuesday morning at 6:08 a.m. I’d be out with some of my fellow cyclist buds rotating around the Silver Lake reservoir. Of late if I’m up at this time (which is pretty common any day of the week) I’d be gearing into the morning routine: putting the …
I’ve had it up to my aperture with the Photo Synthesis feature by Colin Westerbeck that appears each week in the West magazine that’s inserted into my Sunday L.A. Times. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a full-page column anchored by a piece of shutterbuggery that’s representative of some current gallery exhibit in town. …