Archive for March, 2008
rediscovering the Dry Tortugas
While testing Aperture, Apple’s professional answer to iPhoto, I imported some old photos that include the sea plane trip Marlin and I took to Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas in March 1999. I’ve posted them all in a Dry Tortugas Gallery over in the gallery section. These photos were all taken with my old [...]
10+ years … and still wagging the dog
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls … welcome to Fenway Park! I love hearing those words, and for the second morning in a row, those words opened the Red Sox game coverage on television — at 6:00 a.m.! Yes, I’ve awoken at 5:00 a.m. two mornings in a row to watch pre-game coverage for the [...]
flip flop no-no
Back to journalism 101 this morning, and this odd screen capture of the home page from The Huffington Post. In their zeal to place the candidates in a face-off position, the HuffPo editors committed an elementary journalistic faux pas: flipping a photo which contains elements that obviously give away the fact the photo has been [...]