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July 2010- I'm happy to announce that my photography work is on exhibition at the Butch & Nellies Coffee Shop in Midtown Sacramento (corner of 19th and I Street) from July 4th to August 8th. The "official" opening will be on July 10th on the second Saturday art-walk from 6PM to 9PM so please come on down to see the exhibition. June 2010- California's Death Valley and Alabama Hills are some of my favorite locations in the state. Following a weekend trip, I'm posting a new gallery. May 2010- California is home to some very interesting "State Historic Parks"; some of them unknown to most people. The Indian Grinding Rock SHP is one good example. Please have a look at the new "Indian Grinding Rock State Park" gallery. March 2010- Added a new "Jack London State Park" gallery. - Added several new photos to the "Latest Work Gallery". February 2010- Added a new Doors gallery. - From time to time, I like to open-up gadgets and see what's inside. This weekend, I came across an old slide projector for $8 and had the idea of re-using one of its lenses with my DSLR. My new "Downtown" series of photos was taken with this new Blurromatic (TM) lens "technology"... Check it out. And if you are interested in building one of these, see this new article. - Portraiture is a style of photography that intrigues me. While I don't consider myself primarily a "fashion photographer", I do like to experiment new things.. it's a new year after all. In that vein, I started a "Portraiture Section" on the website with local model Kayla. Check it out. January 2010- To start the year, I added a new article on my personal camera recommendations. Holidays are a great time to catch-up on your reading and I just finished reading the book "Outliers". My review is now online. December 2009- Added a new article on how to control you DSLR from an Ipod (or other MP3 player). - Editing the number of photographs in a website can be challenging. However, it is important to give viewers a sense of the photographer's style with a limited selection of photographs. With that in mind, I created a new Favorites gallery that is now prominently displayed in the photography section. - Added a new article on my personal lens collection. - Added a new article explaining how to shoot HDR images without a tripod. November 2009Added a new article on how to build your own DSLR cable release.October 2009Added several new photos to the: "Latest Work Gallery".May 2009Added a new book review: "The Elements of Style".Speaking of book reviews, I have now added links to Amazon.com in each of the book review articles. When you buy using these links I do get a nominal commission, but it does not cost you any more than normal. It goes without saying that, even though I don't expect to get rich through this new venture, this does help support the site and your cooperation is very much appreciated. So if you are interested in buying one of the books, don't forget to click the corresponding link... Thanks ! April 2009HDR photography has been quite a trend in recent years. Today I added a new article on HDR-BW; my personal take on HDR for black and white work. Preston Castle in Ione, CA is an interesting place for photographers and a short drive for me. I had the opportunity to visit the place this month and practice my new HDR-BW technique (see article above). The new Preston Castle gallery (in black and white) was the result and is now online. The Preston Castle Color Gallery is now also posted so you can compare the results... March 2009Added a new Midtown Sacramento gallery. Several new photos added to the "Latest Work" gallery. February 2009Added a new book review. Several new photos added to the "Latest Work" gallery. January 2009Added a new "Portraits" gallery to the photography section. Several new photos added to the "Latest Work" gallery. November 2008Added new book reviews and several new photos to the photography section. October 2008Added an article about calculating square roots in your head. September 2008Big News! The website was completely redesigned using the Joomla CMS. This is a powerful new tool for server-side php website design . It makes it so much easier to maintain and update the site I can't recommend it enough... can't see myself using pure HTML or Flash again. Hopefully, this will allow me to post more frequent updates to the content... I have no excuse now:) June 2007New gallery: "Bodie - Ghost Town".June 2007Big changes! I finally decided to convert all the photo galleries to a flash format with thumbnails etc (see "photography" area). I hope this will make it much easier to navigate through the many photos I have posted. It was a lot of work, but it should also allow me to update the site more frequently in the future. Plain html, was just too painful. For those of you that preferred the old galleries, they are still here, but I will not update them any longer. I also fixed an issue with the page design which (hopefully) makes the site look cleaner in wide-format monitors.I'm particularly proud of my new gallery titled "Minimalism". Check it out. I've been replacing several photos throughout the website with more recent ones. They are spread-out across various galleries so, feel free to browse around:) My philosophy nowadays is to try and replace older, not so good photos, with more recent, presumably "better" photos. It is very easy and somewhat tempting to keep on "dumping" photos onto the website... Instead, I'm going for quality over quantity (or so I like to think:) November 2006New home page now includes a random flash gallery. Added a new "Faith" gallery and added/replaced several photos in the "Portugal - The North" , "Miscellaneous II", "Empty Benches", "Cars" and the "Panorama Experiments" galleries.May 2006Added photos to the "Panorama Experiments" and "Cars" galleries.July 2005Added a new "Miscellaneous II" gallery.New photos added to "Cars", "Animals", "Landscapes", "Panorama Experiments", "Still Life", "Empty Benches" and "Portugal -The North" July 2005Added a new gallery titled "Panorama Experiments" to the photography section.May 2005Added an article titled "Automotive Under-The-Hood Inspection" to the "Articles" section of the website.April 2005Added articles titled "The rule of 70 demystified" and "Divide by 9" to the "Articles" section of the website. Also made some cosmetic changes to to the site to make the text more readable.January 2005- Added an "Articles" section to the website- Added location and camera info to most photos - New photos in the"Empty Benches" gallery - New photos in the "Animals" gallery - New photos in the "Landscapes" gallery - New photos in the "Miscellaneous" gallery - New "Still Life" gallery - New "Cars" gallery - New "Reflections" gallery - New "Trash" gallery July 2004Added the "Landscapes" gallery. New pictures in the "Miscellaneous", "Shadows" and '"Animals" galleries.June 2004Added the "Flowers" gallery. New pictures in the "Miscellaneous" gallery.New "Animals" gallery. April 2004Added the "Miscellaneous" gallery.March 2004Added photos to the "shadows" gallery.January 2004Added a gallery on Jenkinson's Lake to the photography section of the website.December 2003Actually, everything in this website is "brand-spanking-new". This is the first release of the website. Sorry but these are all the "news" I have for now... you didn't expect to get something like the New York Times through this link, now did you? :) |
