I Love Cynics!

Ok, so I’ve been neglecting my blog again. But I promise it was for a good cause.
I’ve posted a few times about my photography business. Before it was all focused on stock photography, and the various outlets I sell those images on. Well, now I’ve branched out a bit and have created an [...]

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I have it on good authority that SQUEEEEE is the sound of pure internet joy. I take it that you must also bring your hands up near your chest and wiggle them around while saying it.
Today I received my distinctive red box from SparkFun that signified that my order was here. This makes me a [...]

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As Greg pointed out in a comment to my last post someone has worked on a project similar to mine. I have to say, their solutions are much more elegant than my own. So, in the spirit of design, I’m gonna totally steal a bunch of their ideas. The use of a dedicated [...]

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Pictured here is a circuit I was working with last winter, trying to convert the RS232 signal from the Garmin eTrex GPS to the TTL signal understood by the Arduino. I made two of those damn boards and neither worked. After intensely looking them over today, I found one that was salvageable. All that needed [...]

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I have to give more kudos to SparkFun. Despite their website saying they were going to be closed until Monday, the order I placed on Wednesday went out yesterday. Should be here soon.
In the meantime, I’m gathering the other parts and figuring out how to get them to interact. Here’s what I have so far:

The [...]

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One of my goals for next summer is to drive my motorcycle up the Dalton Highway to Prudhoe Bay. I’ve already got a list of gadgets that will likely be going with me, including my mobile amateur radio and camera gear.
A big nerd like myself, that just didn’t seem enough. Enter the picture you see [...]

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I do! About a month ago, I put together a large-format camera kit that I’d found on B&H Photo’s website. It’s the Bulldog 5×4 kit camera. It was a fun little kit to put together. All told, it only took a couple hours of work.
I’ve been having a lot of fun running around with [...]

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Outdoor Photographer has a section labeled “Favorite Places” where they request people send in photos of their… duh … favorite places. They then select some for their website. I submitted a few photos, not really thinking much, since I didn’t think my photos were up to par with what I’d seen there.
I was wrong. One [...]

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In the year or so that I’ve been trying to build up a stock photography business I’ve managed to amass a collection of over 2,500 images. These images are all in Nikon’s NEF file format, a version of the RAW file format.
As you can imagine, I’ve gone through several different workflows as I’ve tried to [...]

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As I work to improve my photography business, Urban Raven Photo, I find that I’m reading more and more on photography. Not just looking at the collective works of others, but even going back to the basics, so to speak. This book is not one of the basics.
If you had to name a photographer that’s [...]

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