Over on craigslist I found an ad for an online outdoor adventure magazine called Stellar, calling for submissions.

Photographing Flying Insects shows how a guy home-brewed a rig, and got some beautiful images of bugs flyin' around.

Lately I've been thinking about porn.

Not like that, no.

But as in: Porn is the one thing that always makes money. And I've been curious about how to break into it, what kind of money one could make, and so forth.

I found another Olympus XA-series camera at a thrift store for $3 (marked $5.99, half-off sale day). Of course, it's an XA1, which is the fixed-focus selenium-meter version. It's got the quality D-Zuiko optics, but it's more like an instamatic than its rangefinder XA brethren.

A handy-dandy index of a wide assortment of 35mm films.

Unfortunately, none of these entries is said to have a down side. Such is the only editorial decision that can be made at such a magazine.

Serious nerdy talk ahead. You are warned.

When I shoot a panoramic image, I use a piece of software called hugin to take the pieces and stitch them together. hugin is free, and is designed to be a front-end for a bunch of other software.

Here's a 'blog entry where someone seems to have basically ruined their DSLR by cleaning the sensor with a liquid cleaner.

Notes for a presentation given to the Central Maryland Photographer's Guild: An Introduction to Color Space and Color Calibration

What is chimping?

Funny you should ask...

More than you ever wanted to know about using a flash gun on a Canon camera.