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Dave Brubeck Rocks The SoHo Apple Store

micahwalter@me.com — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:25:50 +0100

Originally written for MacCreate.com

Last night, at the Apple Store in SoHo, I experienced what can only be described as a “wonderful treat.” About a week ago I had been perusing the SoHo store’s website, looking for Read More...

Flickr Eclipse

micahwalter@me.com — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:09:29 +0100

iPhone 3GS In The House!

micahwalter@me.com — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:10:38 +0100

Yesterday I picked up a brand spanking new iPhone 3GS. Kendra and I made our way down to the Apple store in Soho where we spent all of 10 minutes standing in line. Before I knew it my original non-3g phone was converted into an iPod Touch and my new baby way taking calls and receiving emails.

micahwalter@me.com — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:08:28 +0100

I recently ran across a blog posting on a website I helped to put together while living in Dominica. The website, RossPHR.org was originally constructed as a way to dispense news and information about the local chapter of the Physicians For Human Rights organization at Ross University in Dominica. This organization does great things like fund raiRead More...

Crockett and Tubs: Screen Capture 1

micahwalter@me.com — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:28:56 +0100

Last week I watched Michael Mann's Manhunter. It's a real gem of a movie starring William Peterson ( CSI Las Vegas ). Manhunter is essentially the prequel to Silence of the Lambs and was remade and titled Red Dragon in 2002. Although I really like Anthony Hopkins as the venRead More...

Backup: The Rule of Three

micahwalter@me.com — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:58:09 +0100

Backing up your digital media, documents, and other important files is a hot topic. Personally I try to follow a pretty simple concept called "The Rule of Three." This rule is easy to remember, and fairly simple to implement. You can customize it however you see fit, so long as you are still following the rule.

Keep your files in threeRead More...

Mamma Don't Take My Kodachrome...

micahwalter@me.com — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:48:27 +0100

One of my all-time favorite films, Kodachrome is officially dead. Announced this morning, Kodak will cease to produce the legendary film, which has been around for some 74 years! I guess those “nice bright colors” just aren’t nice enough anymore.

Kodachrome was certainly one of the first films I really fell in love with. It had such a specific characteristic about it that made it really appealing to me as a budding photographer. At one pRead More...

Nikki Waller at WSJ Reviews the LX3

micahwalter@me.com — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:45:46 +0100

I just saw this over at www.lx3-photography.com/ and had to post it! So good! Nikki Waller from the Wall Street Journal has some fun insights into why she loves her Panasonic LX3. She also has a full review article here. I love how she thinks the lens cap makes it "retro" but also kinda hard to use. Oh boy.... Enjoy!

My Virtual Office - Part 1: Getting Paid

micahwalter@me.com — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:33:34 +0100

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This is the first in a series of three articles titled “My Virtual Office.” Each part will go over in detail my opinions and experiences surrounding a handful of web-applications that I really can’t live without. This series is geared toward thRead More...

burn Magazine is HOT!!

micahwalter@me.com — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:47:45 +0100

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I'm pretty excited about David Alan Harvey's new project called burn Magazine. Not only is the website really slick and smartly designed, there is some really great content on there as well. His promo video, which I believe premiered at this years LOOK3 festival, is a little polished for my taste, but it gets the poRead More...

So You Want To Be a Photojournalist

micahwalter@me.com — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:19:55 +0100

If there is one question I receive on a regular basis it's something like the following:

Dear Micah, I want to become a photojournalist, where do I start?

I figured that rather than trying to field everyone's emails one by one, I should write up my thoughts on the topic in a blog post. This is partly me being lazy, but I'll turn that laziness right around and call this post a "service to my community."

Before I begin I need to make a small disclaimer. I don't consider myself Read More...

Video Blogging

micahwalter@me.com — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:18:52 +0100

With the recent announcement of the new iPhone 3GS I am really curious to see how this whole video blogging trend takes off. Will we see video-tweets? I haven't seen much in the way of video samples from the iPhone as of yet, but I hear it's pretty nice. I know, not 720p HD, but still, it's a phone!

Regardless of how good or bad the iPhone video quality will turn out to be, I am sure it will spawn a new community of video-bloggers. People will have this thing wheRead More...

Olympus EP-1 Officially Sexy

micahwalter@me.com — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:34:49 +0100

I did my best yesterday to hold off on commenting about the Olympus EP-1 that was officially announced today. It is indeed a very sexy camera. By yesterday I had already seen quite a few leaked photos and I noticed quite a bit of talk on the flickr.com group forums, but I decided to hold off until the official announcement todRead More...

Traveling Light

micahwalter@me.com — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:12:18 +0100

I was recently reading a forum post on the Panasonic DMC-LX3 Flickr group about traveling light, and what type of camera to bring with you if going on a backpacking trip across Europe. The topic got me thinking back to 2002 when I myself backpacked across Europe toting a good deal of camera equipment, computer gear and enough clothing to last me a few months on the road. Reminiscing about this trip made me start to rethink how I would go about it differently.

Quite a bit has changed inRead More...

Six Months With the Panasonic DMC-LX3

micahwalter@me.com — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:49:30 +0100

It has now been just over six months since I took receipt of a brand new Panasonic LUMIX DMC-LX3. Since then I have shot 10,098 images and short HD video clips. All still images were shot in full res RAW+Jpeg mode and all HD video clips were shot in the full 720p res mode. Early on in using this camera I deciRead More...

More Flickr Mining

micahwalter@me.com — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:02:19 +0100

I am becoming more and more obsessed with searching the depths of flickr.com for something special. This morning I was thinking about that old adage: "f/8 and be there." So I did a quick search and low and behold, 91,000 results!

It's search results like these that I feel warrant a special place on the Internet. So, I made a page. Check out the new search on my "Flickr Searches" section.

Also, on a more technical note, I have turned on commenting for these searches. So commRead More...

More on Cory Arcangel

micahwalter@me.com — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0100

As a follow up to my previous post I found this cool little video about Cory Arcangel on YouTube.

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IMG_1234 and Cory Arcangel

micahwalter@me.com — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0100

IMG_1234 is a short project I made a couple weeks ago. Posted on the site here for your viewing pleasure. I am continually excited by "short" projects. Recently I became a fan of Cory Arcangel's piece depicted below.

I find this sort of "one mouse click" art is pretty interesting. I also really like how Cory titled the piece. Following his title I was able to replicate the work in PShop with minimal effort. Of course my version would be titled "CS4."

Photoshop CS: 11Read More...

LX3 Prints and Viewfinders

micahwalter@me.com — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:41:43 +0100

I am still very impressed with the LX3. It has become my "main" camera over the last couple of weeks. I take it everywhere and I have been having fun seeing what it can do. It has a few little intricacies that took me some time to learn, but I am getting pretty proficientRead More...