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Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:51:46 GMT

What can you use those ubiquitous plastic bags for???

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:05:21 GMT

Seeing that, I wondered whether there were not some uses for these bags which would keep them out of the landfill or at least lessen the environmental impact. I know that I use them to cushion packages, rather than those little plastic popcorn pieces. We use them to take out the cat litter and other trash. They're great for travelpacking, since they have no weight and take up no room, but they can protect items or be used to keep dirty laundry and wet swimsuits in. But, these aren't...

How to move a Keynote presenatation to a DVD for playing

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:17:18 GMT

Steps in creating a self-playing DVD from Keynote April 3, 2007 Have a DVD ready to put in computer and have all your audio and video assets ready to work with creat the Keynote, make sure all the transitions, builds, music and images are as you like them export the Keynote via QuickTime - selfplaying movie, video full size, 640x480 pixels [I had 1040x768 slides in Keynote and exported full size without changing the pixels, letting iMovie do what it wanted to], click settings...

Trip to Athens posted at SlowTrav.com

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:19:41 GMT

I travelled to Athens, Greece, between Christmas and New Years and wrote a trip report about it which was recently published at the SlowTrav site. New Years Eve in Athens Images from the trip are also posted at my Gallery [linked on the SlowTrav site. For good measure, the whole Trip Report is also posted at the Trip Reports page of the Resources area of this website....

Vacation Rental Review = Athens Greece

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:17:14 GMT

It is posted at SlowTrav, an excellent site for slow travelers =SlowTravReview

Great Quote

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:08:12 GMT

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. - Mark Twain

Still Life in Bhutan, a piece of Fine ARt

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:05:31 GMT

I submitted one of my shots from Bhutan to the DIA [Denver International Airport] Invitational competition through the Center for Fine Art Photography and it was among those chosen. DIA at C4FAP

Using a Digital Workflow in Aperture: Adding Order to the Chaos of your Life in Photography

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:42:10 GMT

Preparations: Planning: using checklists, make sure you�re taking everything you need to be effective and update those checklists each time you use them. And before you do any image-work, be sure to calibrate your monitor or have done so fairly recently. Using: if at all possible, use original resources that won�t degrade through use. That means shooting in RAW if possible, saving in TIFF if possible, not compressing the data until well after you are finished working...

Your U.S. Tax Dollars at Work! The National Archives...

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:19:07 GMT

Decorative frames, available at many stores, are appropriate for everyday snapshots. However, these frames either do not come with a mat or spacers to keep the photo from contact with the glass, or they use a poor quality acidic paper mat. Unfortunately, many unmatted photos have been damaged or permanently stuck to glass when fluid seeped between the glass and photo after the glass had been sprayed with liquid cleaner or beverages were spilled near the frame. Never use spray cleaners...

Request for an image from Turkey

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:26:45 GMT

Here is what I call "Yellow Boat in the Bosphorus", an image I took in Istanbul in 2004 and which has received postive responses in juried shows and with purchasers. Enjoy.