A Slightly Different Focus

Last — but certainly not least — comes the long-overdue “quickies” post. Except that I’ve decided to call “quickies” something else: “snapshots.”
Seems appropriate, given that this photographer draws a distinction between photography, the art of taking photographs, and snapshots, those quick-and-dirty, non-art-driven takes on a scene.
Thus, some “quick and dirty,” snapshot links:

Sailing the Maine coast [...]

Sorry for the lack of updates to the blog recently; been behind the work curve. On the positive side, my internet issues seem to have cleared up….

An interesting — and pretty accurate, IMHO — take on the photography business right now: The Cloud is Falling. Weddings, indeed…;)
Rolling Stone is switching to a “regular” magazine size. [...]

…but have been otherwise occupied. Thus, there are a few stacked up.
Next time you have a moment, pull up to the computer with your favorite beverage and enjoy:

Metallophile, my favorite font in a while — nice.
This has been around for a while, but it’s still a great storm photograph. Just wow.
Also from the NYT, When [...]

…for the weekend consumption:

The Online Photographer has an interesting post up on what might have also been my favorite digital camera — Sony’s 707. (For the record, I had an 828, as well — but it was exactly as Mike describes, ultimately leading me into Nikon territory.)
That same site also leads us to an editorial [...]

Long weekends are always supposed to be about catching up. Shame it usually doesn’t work that way.
Meanwhile:

Some amazing time-lapse photography from Alexey Titarenko, via Kottke.
Also from Kottke, something potentially relevant here in Macon: Time-lapse cherry trees. Yeah.
Maps of all the streets in the lower 48 states — no, not topography, not satellite shots, just the [...]

A selection of things that have caught my eye recently:

Have you ever heard of a memristor? Get used to the term — it might well replace “transistor.” Seriously, this is huge. Ars on why.
A leftover from my book and graphic design days: Hefler Frere-Jones — aka Typography.com — on the ampersand. Nice.
Ars (again) on the [...]

1. An interesting review of perhaps the most interesting new camera in a while (for me, at least): the Sigma DP-1, at Luminous Landscape. Bottom line: great RAW photos from a compact yet deeply flawed camera. Hmmmm — great photos with flawed hardware. Sounds like their lenses, too…;)
2. Thoughts on how Flickr’s 90-second videos, called [...]