One of my new favorite websites is The Online Photographer, with great posts by Mike Johnston. Over the past couple of days he has posted a great little series on tripod heads, ranging from honking big and expensive to affordable and light enough to carry on the trail. Rather than linking to each individual post, I’ll suggest that you use the link above to go straight to his site – if the storys have dropped of the bottom of the home page look for his posts on January 5, 6, and 7, 2006. By the way, I use the excellent Acratech Ultimate Ballhead.
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Pick Me! Pick Me!
Apparently I’ve been nominated for inclusion in a “best of” competition for photo blogs at the Photography Blogs Network. I wouldn’t mind at all if you want to vote for me… :-)
http://www.heartlandoutdoorsman.com/phototech
Thanks!
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SF Earthquake Photos by Jack London
From SFGate: Jack London’s lens on 1906 quake – Author’s photos, never seen by public, get centennial show
It is still magic after all these years: Slowly the black and white image comes to life in the darkroom tray at the headquarters of the California Historical Society in San Francisco. The picture is from another time, but it is sharp and clear — it is of a huge domed building, all in ruins, as if it had been bombed.
It is the wreckage of San Francisco’s City Hall, destroyed in an earthquake a century ago this spring. It is a remarkable picture, but the photographer was even more remarkable. He was Jack London.
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