Category: Blog
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Ricoh Theta M15 May be the Ultimate Selfie Camera
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in BlogSpin the image below around and zoom in and out to see everyone at the table. Group #selfie #theta360 – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA
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Story in the Round: Running a 5K with the Ricoh Theta M15
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in BlogMy birthday present to myself this year is the Ricoh Theta M15, a unique 360 degree camera. I’m hoping to use it on my motorcycle trips and running adventures. It arrived the same day I was planning to run a local 5k, so I thought that I’d give it a shakedown test… After signing up…
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The Story of a Photo (AKA Google ≠ Free)
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in BlogOnce upon a time I took a photo of an Aprilia Tuono motorcycle at New York’s famous Hawk’s Nest, a twisty bit of asphalt high above the Delaware River. It ended up being the lede photo in my story for RoadRUNNER Magazine. I also posted it on my Flickr, where it became one of my…
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Been Playing with Watch Faces
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in BlogSo I now have a Sony Smartwatch 3 on my wrist. I bought it to track my runs (with GPS), monitor my heart rate (with a Polar H7 Bluetooth heart rate monitor) and listen to music while I run. After some teething problems it’s working out quite nicely. I’ve also been playing around with the…
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Back from #DaytonaOrBust, Now Time to Write
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in BlogJust got back from Daytona’s infamous Bike Week, a late winter celebration of two wheels in one of the warmer places in the country. For this trip I had the BMW C650GT scooter, along with a heated jacket and one piece suit from Aerostich. I also had my ever-reliable Boblbee Meg Aero backpack to carry…
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Apple Watch and Revenge of the Skeuomorphs
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in Blog[photo: Apple] It’s a well known yarn that several years ago Apple was split between those that liked skeuomorphism (Steve Jobs, Scott Forstall, others) and how it made otherwise cool and modern devices warm and relatable to large swaths of the population and those that looked down upon their mid-century modern noses at it and…
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Nikon 1 V1-Good Enough to be the A Cam?
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in BlogNext time you’re in Barnes & Noble, saunter (or sashay, your choice) over to the magazine rack and pick up a copy of the Feb ’14 issue of RoadRUNNER Magazine. My Vermont dual purpose story, “One if by Land, Two if by Sea, Three if by KLR” is in there, and it’s one of the…
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A Reason to Shoot RAW
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in BlogSample files of the new Pentax K-3 are now being released to the Internets. Imaging Resource does a great job of taking test photos under controlled conditions for the pixel peepers to pore over. And while I’m a proponent of the idea that the greatest variable in any photograph opportunity is the photographer itself, I…
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Reuter’s Jason Reed takes a stunning and I mean stunning photo of Ted Cruz
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in BlogThis photo simply stopped me in my tracks. I can imagine the situation-a scrum of reporters and photographers jostling around Ted Cruz. And in this madness, a lightbulb goes off in Jason Reed’s head, and he gets this angle. Wow. Even the disembodied audio recorders and microphones – the way that they envelope Cruz –…
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A Short Rant: The Sometimes Tempestuous Relationship with the Nikon V1
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in BlogMy what a short memory I have! Just a couple of weeks ago I was waxing poetically about the Nikon 1 system, claiming that the V1 was going to become my primary motorcycle travel camera. There’s a lot to like about it–the compact body and lenses, the lightning quick AF and FPS, the solid build,…