Friday night the sky lit up at sunset. Joan and I headed to North Beach in San Clemente, where I captured this shot from the lawn in front of the Ole Hanson Beach Club, using my iPhone 4. Day 273 of Project 365.
Create Amazing Infographics About Your iPhone Photos
August 11, 2011 By 3 Comments
Infographics have become a popular way to convey a lot of information in a concise form. Rich with data, they leverage graphics to provide context to the numbers. Now a clever Swedish company called Dear Future Astronaut has released a $0.99 iPhone app that will analyze your photos and produce a beautiful infographic analysis. I [...]
Project 365: Day Ninety-Nine
April 11, 2011 By 3 Comments
On January 1, 2011 I began what some of my photographer friends know as Project 365. It’s a commitment to shoot a photo every day for an entire year. Today marks Day 99, and I realized at 9:45pm that I hadn’t taken a photo. So I improvised a quick shot with my iPhone and gussied [...]
Favorite iPhone Apps for Photography
March 12, 2011 By 9 Comments
I’ve always loved photography. When I was younger, I used a Konica SLR (even lugging that heavy thing over 200 miles on the John Muir Trail back in 1980). When digital cameras appeared on the scene, I quickly dove in. The ability to shoot… and shoot… and shoot as many photos as I wanted without [...]
Creating Time-Lapse Videos on an iPhone
February 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Time lapse videos have always fascinated me. Maybe it’s the illusion of condensing time to a higher data density. All I know is I’m not alone. Vimeo has an entire channel devoted to time-lapse videos, such as this: I honestly don’t know how the pros do it, but thanks to the ReelMoments iPhone app, you [...]
Google Teleporter Allows Man to Revisit Childhood
February 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Google Teleporter isn’t a real product…yet! But I was able to use Google Streetview to take me back to a childhood home, and it felt pretty amazing. Sure, the Streetview feature isn’t anything new, but once in a while I’m surprised by it’s reach and ability to intersect with my own life. Here’s an example [...]
Gaming, Circa 1974
February 10, 2011 By 4 Comments
As long as I can remember, this simply designed wooden game sat on the coffee table in my grandparents living room. Growing up, I loved playing the game with my grandpa and grandma. The gameplay was simple. You spun the top, hoping it knocked the eight wooden balls into the eight divots. Each divot had [...]
ToonPaint iPhone App Turns Photos Into Comics
January 24, 2011 By 3 Comments
I usually reserve the fun stuff for weekends, but this was too hot to wait. If you’ve got an iPhone and like to play around with photos, you’ve got to check out the ToonPAINT app. You can use the camera or open an image from your photo gallery and it converts it to a comic-book [...]
Remembering the Ones We Love
January 9, 2011 By 4 Comments
Last month, my grandmother passed away at the age of 95. Ruth Vanderploeg was in amazingly good health, living independently in the home she and my grandpa had shared for over three decades, walking regularly, entertaining guests and even teaching English. She suffered a massive stroke, and never regained consciousness. She passed away a few [...]
Flump lets you batch download Flickr photos
August 9, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Flump is an Adobe AIR application that lets you download all the public photos from any Flickr user. Written by a couple of Adobe employees — Lee Brimelow and Mike Chambers — Flump makes it easy to backup your photos for archival purposes — useful if Flickr ever looses your stuff. Personally, I have grown [...]
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