Books Under the Tree
Christmas is over, the new year begun, and it’s time to put the ornaments away, time to take away the tree. But before I do I wanted to share a few things I found under the tree on Christmas morning.…
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
Guided Tour: Hidden Codes On the Cover
(This post is part of a guided tour of my book, Computational Photography, on sale now for $49.95 with free shipping.) If you peel back the dust cover of Computational Photography you can see the actual hardcover of the hardcover…
At Least You Didn’t Get An Art Degree
She calls in, hoping to hear advice that will change her life. She wants out of the crushing debt that is defining her, shaping her marriage, constraining their opportunities. She tells Dave Ramsey, the radio show host, the numbers. She…
The Christmas Lights After Christmas
(This post is a part of a pair of posts on Christmas lights.) Christmas is over but the Christmas lights are still up and a walk around my neighborhood still offers up delightful photographs. For me, the attraction of these…
The Badlands (the One In Kansas)
This post is from a series of articles chronicling a 2020 cross-country trip with my wife and two daughters and a boyfriend, from California to Ohio (to visit family) and Pennsylvania (to drop off my oldest daughter at grad school),…
Towers From An Ancient Tropical Sea
This post is from a series of articles chronicling a 2020 cross-country trip with my wife and two daughters and a boyfriend, from California to Ohio (to visit family) and Pennsylvania (to drop off my oldest daughter at grad school),…
The Christmas Lights Before Christmas
(This post is a part of a pair of posts on Christmas lights.) I do a poor job here of differentiating between photographs I take which are snapshots, just like everyone else’s, and serious photographs, art photographs. Most every photograph…
A Deeper Dive Into Brodovitch’s Exakta Magazine Issue
Brodovitch’s issue of Exakta Magazine in 1952 has only about a third as many photographs as the subsequent one, and I know none of the photographers. Thus, Google. A first glance you might think the cover is a high-contrast reversal…
Alexey Brodovitch’s Forgotten Design for Exakta Magazine
When I was young and poor I used to walk across the street from the camera store where I worked and buy vinyl record albums at Quonset Hut, which was the cool place to buy music (and music-related t-shirts) but…
The Cross In the Middle of Nowhere: iPhone 11 Pro Max vs the 12
(This post is part of an ongoing review of the iPhone 12 Pro Max.) From oral arguments John G. Roberts, Jr.: Counsel, this probably doesn’t have anything to do with anything, but I’m just kind of curious, why is this…