During the last year, I've been researching monitors to replace my 23" Apple Cinema Display. My main goal was to obtain something that could work with a wider color gamut. I ended up recently purchasing an NEC LCD2960WUXi display and these are my first impressions. →

This year's political discourse has been nothing short of amazing. The positive participation and energy from this season, however, has to go further than just one election cycle. It needs to go further than just one presidential choice. We need to Change Congress. →

While browsing CNET News.com this evening, I saw that one of the lead stories featured John Battelle. The photo of John looked eerily familiar, but I haven't talked with anybody from CNET in a long time about using a photo. It turns out that it had been misused with a familiar story. →

A hundred mile drive southwest of Portland is Boiler Bay State Scenic Viewpoint, one of many places that lets you really drink in the rugged Northwest Pacific coast. It's a great place to watch birds and whales. For me, however,... →

A few weeks ago, my good friend Mike Clark sent me an email asking a few questions about tripods and ball heads. He was looking to buy and wanted to know what I thought of some of the ones that... →

Over the years that I've been working with O'Reilly Media, they've steadily been ramping up the use of photography in their conference marketing materials. One of the most recent implementations of this is the RubyConf 2008 website which features a... →

I don't usually shoot in the conditions that are reported to tickle the autofocus issues in the Canon 1D Mark III, but from time to time I believe that I have seen the issue. In certain stage lighting conditions I'll... →

When Aperture 1.0 was released, it was the RAW workflow tool I had always wanted and it quickly became my mainline workflow tool. Sure, it was slower than it should have been and it had a few warts. But it... →

Earlier today, Apple announced WWDC08, their annual developer conference. Last year was the second year in a row that I served as a photographer for the Apple Developer Connection and I was lucky enough to be joined by Pınar Özger. Some... →

For the next few days, I'll be in Mountain View, California shooting the eComm2008 conference at the Computer History Museum. This conference is the follow on event to ETel 2006 and ETel 2007. When it became clear that ETel 2008... →

The identity story on the web has long been a messy one. Lots of people have been working on this problem for a while, however, and trying to make the story less messy and it seems that OpenID is emerging... →

Starting last weekend, Pınar and I spent last week in San Diego shooting the Graphing Social Patterns West and ETech Conferences. Our home for the week was on the 14th floor of the San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina on... →

Chris Anderson’s FREE! essay in Wired is certainly a good think and is the culmination of a lot of thinking around what digital technologies mean for the economy. As a photographer, I immediately think about what Chris is saying... →