Seen at T.O.P.:

To Delete or Not, That Is the Question…

I’ve already gone back to my archived CDs or DVDs of digital captures made a couple years ago and found that I disagree with my earlier edit in some cases. So while I narrow down the folders on my working hard drive to a fairly tight edit, I do keep “everything” on optical disc archives. Of course even so we don’t yet have digital storage solutions as permanent as real film and proof sheets, but maybe these discs will last until a better answer comes along.

Posted by: CARL WEESE [The Online Photographer]

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Mike Johnston’s wonderful post at T.O.P. about the perils of blogging:

Inexplicably, a lull–and the blogger is aware that the already huge crowd has suddenly achieved a whole new dimension; it has magnified exponentially. Behind him, an enormous mass of people have materialized. They are armed with cudgels, verbs, spikes, bricks, epithets, all sorts of things. And they are looking menacing. A wave of fear travels up his spine.

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Mike Johnston’s wonderful post at T.O.P. about the perils of blogging:

Inexplicably, a lull–and the blogger is aware that the already huge crowd has suddenly achieved a whole new dimension; it has magnified exponentially. Behind him, an enormous mass of people have materialized. They are armed with cudgels, verbs, spikes, bricks, epithets, all sorts of things. And they are looking menacing. A wave of fear travels up his spine.

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Karl Zipser at Art & Perception:

Staying artistically fit in 2007

Thanks to my New Years resolutions, I took my camera on my walk this morning. Making photos every day — what’s the big deal? Photography is just a matter of pressing a button, right?

I did the same walk around the harbor that I do every day when I am in Wilhelmshaven. But today I felt exhausted afterwards, and it wasn’t from the physical weight of the camera. I felt tired because I used my “photographic vision,” a special way of looking at the world. It took about half an hour of walking and shooting to get into “photographic vision,” and it now persists for some time after I put down the camera. “Photographic vision” lets me take photographs without using a camera, in a sense. I assume all the photographers have this; probably the professionals live with it all the time. For an amateur like me, it yields a sort of “mental muscle ache” something like what you feel when you first start exercising muscles that you didn’t realize you had. All the more reason for the daily workout!

– Karl Zipser [Art & Perception]

Yes, Karl, yes. :-)

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