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FastStone Image Viewer and Thumbnail Browser
A Free Tool You Can’t Be Without IrfanView has been my ‘go to’ quick image browser and editor for years. It is a great free program. But as I began spending more time on this blog, I ran into one small quirk with IrfanView that sent me looking for an option. My problem was that… Read more »
How to have a Zen lunch and a stress free photo outing…
I’ve told myself over and over that if a person wants to take some good photos, you have to go take pictures! I think we all forget this from time to time. If you have a half hour to spare on a nice day, grab a sandwich and your camera and head to the nearest… Read more »
Photography: Sometimes less is more
Cameras are literally everywhere at the moment. If we don’t own a digital camera, we have one on hand built into our phone. And the amount of pictures we can take has changed too. We can buy memory cards with several gig of memory that allow us to take thousands of photos, should we be… Read more »
Sun Pillar
Winter scene with a good look at the unusual ‘sun-pillar’ effect. This is a type of optical effect when sunlight is reflected off ice crystals in the air. They are commonly called Sun pillars or light pillars. The effects shows both above and below the sun, but the most dramatic displays show a bright pillar… Read more »
Finding the Perfect Slim Digital Camera
Just in the last two decades, photography technology has done some incredibly interesting things to cameras. About twenty five years ago, all cameras were film based. They had to be manually loaded with the film. And, they were bulky in size. This is definitely no longer the case. Today, you can have a slim digital… Read more »
Free Resizing Software – Show Your Photos to the World in 10 Seconds Flat
Nobody sees the photos you have on your hard drive! Why do you take photos? To keep them stored on your computer? To spend hours and hours post processing them with Photoshop or some other image processing software? And then saying, “I’ve got to get to bed. I’ll work on these some more tomorrow.” If… Read more »
Timer Remote for Canon Cameras
One of the neatest additions that I ever added to my never ending collection of gear was Timer Remote Control for my Canon 20D. I originally decided to buy it thinking that I would like to try some time lapse photos and then post them to the site as sequences. You can find a number… Read more »
Minnesota State and Public Parks
Minnesota State and Public Parks There are 66 parks and 6 recreation areas in the Minnesota State Park system. (This photo was taken at Lake Carlos State Park near Alexandria, MN.) I’ve been to most of them and we’ll (hopefully) be getting to them all over time. State Parks are wonderful places to go with… Read more »
Interior Photography
Taking ‘professional’ quality photos of room interiors has gotten much easier since the advent of digital photography. One of the nice things about using online photography resources is the amount of information that is available to help you learn about taking good digital pictures. In days of old, you assumed that to get good interior… Read more »