I’m not one of those amateur photographers who conflates technology and picture-making. Gamma, MTF curves, ISO numbers, CCD, CMOS, ICC profiles, colorspaces, optics — you can make great images without really knowing what they technically mean or how they work. But my day job relates directly to imaging and image processing, so I end […]

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Friends, I need all your best thoughts and wishes tomorrow when I call LaCie tech support.
I bought a nice big external hard drive to make backups of the 150-or-so GB of photographs that I scanned over the last six years, as well as backups of all the rest of my “iLife.” But then today, […]

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(Happy birthday, Leslie! Lisa and I missed you at reunion. Here is your present: a bunch of pictures of what you might have seen. We each had a “cyclone” in your honor at the Dari Barn on the big day.)

“More lovely is the land that lies ‘tween rivers than any land I […]

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