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Yahoo Flicks the Fickle Finger of Flickr at its Followers
Gosh, photographers sure are an angry bunch, aren’t they? Last week everyone hated Adobe. This week it’s Flickr. I didn’t agree with the anger that people were spewing forth at Adobe but with Flickr, it seems to be well-justified. Flickr was way overdue for a change. The whole site was very 2008 and they seemed [...]
Posted in Flickr, Uncategorized
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Adobe Photoshop CC
In case you haven’t read it elsewhere already, this week Adobe announced that Creative Suite 6 (aka CS6), the product set that includes Photoshop and Lightroom, will be the last version of CS. Going forward, there will only be Adobe Creative Cloud (Adobe CC) and all of the products (with the exception of Lightroom) will [...]
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Who Do You Trust?
Almost all photographers suffer from GAS – Gear Acquisition Syndrome. We buy cameras, lenses, tripods, flashes, bags, filters … the list goes on and on and who knows where it will stop? Most photography blogs are really good for giving you GAS too. Bad reviews seem rare to me. Now in part that’s because most [...]
Posted in Fuji, Gear
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A Big Bunny
Standing guard in front of Tai Om Village, much like the Colossus of Rhodes, no? Except probably unlike the Colossus of Rhodes, a minute after I took this photo all the village dogs came over and took turns peeing on it. Here’s a crop that shows how well the sensor from the Sony RX100 [...]
Posted in Hong Kong, Sony
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A Few Random RX100 Shots
I think the only reason I left the house today was because I pushed myself to do it so I’d get outside and get to know the RX100 a little bit better. The result – bought 1 of the 2 things I needed to buy and somehow ended up buying shoes that might be too [...]
Posted in Hong Kong, Sony
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