Last year I went to California Dreamin’: Camera Clubs and the Pictorial Photography Tradition, an exhibit at the Boston University Art Gallery. The period it covered, about 1910-1930, was an interesting time for American photography. Pictorialism — the self-conscious style so popular at the turn of the century with its gauzy ambiance, classical […]

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Readers might be interested in Marshall Goff’s blog. Marshall is quite a good photographer and is turning into a superlative printmaker; and on many occasions we have shared confusion about how to drum up sales. If you have ideas, let us know.
Everyone’s blog deserves a little free publicity now and again.

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After reading the Lonely Planet guide to Mongolia, it does sound like an interesting place to visit — especially if you’re into spending a week on horseback or mountain-biking into the hinterlands without a guide or sleeping in a yurt. Getting travel insurance is highly recommended.
Even if this doesn’t sound like your cup of […]

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Last week I posted about a Times editorial on outsourcing. Today the commonwealth’s Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey came to The MathWorks to present us with a proclamation and thank us for being a good Massachusetts business.
(You can add her to the list of other American politicians I’ve seen in person — strangely, all Republicans: […]

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Do you wish you could get an e-mail everytime I create a new dispatch? A nifty little service called RMail will use the RSS feed. To use the service, enter your e-mail address and this RSS feed address: http://www.jeffmatherphotography.com/dispatches/index.rdf.
I personally don’t have news updates sent to me for most sites. There are […]

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By and large, India — the world’s largest democracy — seems at ease with being the world’s largest pluralist society. The prime minister is Sikh. The head of the ruling government, Sonia Gandhi, is an Italian-born Christian. Statistically, this would be like the U.S. having a Jew for president and a Muslim heading the GOP. (Okay, that kind of made me chuckle…)

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We’ll have to wait a couple years for more, extensive international travel (other than Canada) since we’re short of vacation and I misplaced all of those stacks of money we would need. So I have decided to live vicariously by reading guidebooks to exotic places.
If you received the letter we sent, you’ll know we’re […]

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Today’s New York Times contains an interesting editorial on outsourcing from the perspective of Suketu Mehta, an Indian-American. Basically she he says Americans need to study harder, work harder, and not expect other nations to let us coast on past successes. Learning Hindi might not be a bad idea either.
You can read the […]

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My images from India are now online. Go See Them!

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Okay, I’m definitely going digital . . . in about two years when I can afford the camera I want. (Until then I’ll have to settle for avarice.) The relative ease of getting Lisa’s pictures off her digital camera compared to the rather time consuming and tedious process of scanning 35mm slides […]

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This is a test. I’m going to try to put some Devanagari text containing a couple of Hindi sentences into this post. I have it working in Microsoft Word. Let’s see if it works here.
नमस्ते । मैं जेफ हूँ । क़्य आप हिन्दुस्तनी हैं?
Yes. That did seem to work very well! […]

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