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Mark on December 3rd, 2008

The sun popped out this afternoon, giving me another chance to test (and get used to) the Canon G10. All were shot at ISO 80 as highest-quality JPEGs (c’mon Apple, release a RAW decoder for the G10). They were exported as JPEGs at a quality setting of six. (Sorry, all you snow-bound folks: our tree [...]

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Mark on November 9th, 2008

I am absolutely astonished that I can take photos like this with a point-and-shoot, handheld, at 11 o’clock at night. The only illumination was a spill of light from an open door just outside the picture on the left, and a streetlight, which is reflected in the door. The image is of St. Sava’s, a [...]

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Mark on October 11th, 2008

I’m about 500-600 entries into the task of deleting Tchnorati tags and retagging all my posts with WordPress tags, which is a fair accomplishment, but still leaves me 2,500 or so posts short of completion. One thing I’ve discovered in tagging posts from several years back: I’ve written some good stuff but I’ve also written [...]

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Mark on September 23rd, 2008

Hmmm. Just discovered that photos uploaded prior to late 2007 seem to have disappeared from my WordPress install, meaning there may be a blue-boxed question mark scattered here and there throughout the site. I’m going to see if I still have back-ups with the missing images, so they may come back. Heavy emphasis on the [...]

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