Just a quick rant today. The proliferation of poor stock photos or stock photos used poorly has reached its culmination. Someone figured out that people are drawn to pictures. Those same people figured out if they wanted their text read by casually browsing readers, that a photo could grab some attention...
Apparently, as evidenced by this example, Google’s new Social Media darling, Google+ loves to censor photos based upon certain keywords. I posted a picture on September 1st titled “Full-Frontal Hummingbird: Yesterday’s best capture.” A few days later it was replaced with this black graphic and an international...
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I don’t blame most of the world for having become more skeptical of the appearance of photographs. During the past decade the acceptance and explosion of digital photography coupled with the proliferation of image editing programs has given, I think, too many tools into the hands of too irresponsible...
Aside: They say the best camera to take the picture is the one you have with you. There has been a lot of buzz on the net lately about a new I-phone app called “Best Camera”. No matter what camera you have with you-just take the picture-even if it is a mere cell phone camera. [...]
If you are celebrating “Holidays” instead of Christmas, this still applies:
It seems each year that the Emily Posts and other police persons of civility in society come out and tell us how we should be tipping various persons with whom we have casual acquaintance, passing relationships or other connections...