I Love Cynics!

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:

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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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Once upon a time, Fairbanks had only two bookstores worth mentioning: Walden Books, which had a horribly pathetic selection of any subject, and Gulivers which kicks all sorts of ass if you’re looking for something used. Neither had a great photography section, so there was no such thing as instant gratification. Forced to Amazon and […]

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Last week I spent a wonderful time in Oregon. It was rather unexpected.
Oh, I knew I was going down there for a long time. But, it was for a work related class on writing and photography. I thought, quite arrogantly, that I was going to see and hear a lot of what I already […]

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I have to admit, the focus of this book review is very very narrow. However, with the recent release of the Nikon D80, the price of older models has dropped enormously. If you are in the market for a digital SLR, but are low on cash, looking to these older models might be a wise […]

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Finally, after months of slow tinkering and scrapping design after design, Urban Raven Photo is online.
Urban Raven Photo is my stock/Alaskan photography web site. It’s a simple three page layout at the moment. Would love to hear comments pro or con about the design. It will grow as business grows, I’m sure. If I ever […]

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