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Artificial Intelligence And Photography

The Good and the Bad In this blog I will illustrate the exciting advances with AI, specifically the image directed applications such as Dalle -3, Gemini, Midjourney v6, and Claude.…

Citizen Surveillance

I thought to celebrate Data Privacy Day, held every January 28, I would create a document that will help you understand the constant collection of personal data, how it is…

30 Years Ago at National Geographic

Thirty ago this month, I was working for the National Geographic Society (NGS) developing the prototype for a digital photographic archive for the Society’s Image Collection. It was incurring significant…

Update on My Daily Postings

  Three years. That is the timeframe for my visual diary. As my followers on this website, or on my Twitter and Facebook know, every day current images are posted.…

Taking Photography Workshops to Improve Your Skills

I have given over 100 talks and served at many workshops as a staffer or the director. As the director, my workshops have ranged from a weekend at the Appalachian…

The MOMA Exhibit OBJECT:PHOTO

I saw the photographic exhibit “OBJECT:PHOTO at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. It is essentially the Thomas Walther Collection, a selection of 341 ”modern” photographs by…

Tweeting My Visual Diary

When Twitter, Now X,  first appeared, I felt like many others that I did not need to know how someone I was following was enjoying breakfast. But I began to…

LUMIX Gh4: Capturing Stills from 4k video

Recently, I tested a Panasonic LUMIX Gh4 with two important features that affect how still photographers will be capturing images in the near future. Firmware now offered by Panasonic for…

Instagram Comments on Martin Luther King Post

On Martin Luther King Day, I posted this Instagram with the following caption” “Monument in Washington DC. An awe-inspiring statue of an extraordinary man. He was killed before the current…