Archive for December, 2006

Indian Fine Art Photographers

Posted in December 27th, 2006

For someone living in the Google age, it’s slow business finding information about Indian phtographers. Thanks to the small number of people who pointed me to a few photographers of note, I got a modest start. But very modest. (Mostly just Raghubir Singh and Prashant Panjiar.)
So I’ve decided to try a different […]

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Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006)

Posted in December 21st, 2006

by Jeff Mather in OPP, Photography

To say that Ruth Bernhard spent a life in photography would sell short the span of her life and the impact of her work. It’s fairer to say that she spent two or three lives in photography.

NY Times obituary
Women in Photography article
Wikipedia entry
Google Image Search

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Expanded Blogroll

Posted in December 19th, 2006

by Jeff Mather in Photography, General

If you read these entries via RSS newsfeeds, you might not have noticed a couple of new features. In particular, there are many more links to other photography weblogs. So, come inside and see what’s new.

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The MathWorks Mathemagic Mathstravaganza Mathpetition

Posted in December 17th, 2006

by Jeff Mather in General

As seen in the Brown Daily Herald.
But seriously . . . There was no trip to Vegas for the winner of the latest MATLAB Programming Contest. Just lots of “cool” prizes and the adoration of engineers everywhere.

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“What did I miss?” (part 1)

Posted in December 12th, 2006

by Jeff Mather in OPP, Photography

I’m a voracious link clicker . . . and pack rat. (I click and I click and sometimes I even read.) Here’s the first in a series highlighting what I would have clicked over the last couple of months (and probably read) if I hadn’t been taking classes:

The Sentence (Alec Soth, “the emo […]

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My Testing Penance

Posted in December 5th, 2006

by Jeff Mather in Software Engineering

Earlier this summer I sent an unintentionally impolitic e-mail to a rather large distribution list, of course. In it I criticized a proposed software test plan and unfortunately went on to insult someone connected to the project.
It appears that Fortuna (or whatever metes out my karma’s due) has a sense of humor. My […]

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Leonard Freed (1929-2006)

Posted in December 5th, 2006

by Jeff Mather in OPP, Photography

One of my favorite documentary images from the 1970’s is Leonard Freed’s photograph of a police officer playing a game with kids in New York. (From Garrison Art Center.)
More images…

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Software testing redux

Posted in December 3rd, 2006

by Jeff Mather in Software Engineering

I’m almost free. . . . The final testing project for my software testing techniques course is all that I have left. I can’t wait to finish it. I will soon be able to read the paper, read a book, go photographing, and everything else without thinking that I should be studying.
Without getting […]

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Pseudo-randomness

Posted in December 1st, 2006

by Jeff Mather in Software Engineering, Computing

Lisa the Innumerate called a few minutes ago to ask about affine transformations, so I figure there must be some general interest among my readers for more math. (For the uninitiated an affine transformation in 2D is essentially a particular kind of geometric operation that preserves parallel lines and proportions.)
Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror […]

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