The Pixels in Pete's World

This is just a quick post about my show for this month’s Art Walk in downtown Riverside. If you’re in the downtown Riverside area, stop in during Art Walk and see my prints on the green wall when you enter Back to the Grind coffeehouse. I previously wrote about how I visited Hong Kong to capture [...]

Jude Dettman from upstate New York is a recent switcher to Macs. She did so apparently after my advice? Brave soul. For starters, no, I do not own Apple shares. Wish I had some. I happen to think if you don’t have a boatload of applications for photography and other graphics programs for the Windows [...]

Fill-flash to the rescue–Taken in San Bernardino during a citywide tribute for  Winter Olympian Derek Parra, this picture would have been a disaster given the high noon lighting, baseball cap on my subject’s face. My flash was not on-camera. I held my flash on its extension sync cord with my left hand and aimed downwards. Had [...]

There is a disturbing trend I’m spotting as more and more hobbyists turn to their new found passion/talents for digital photography. Corporations like camera manufacturers, airlines and other high profile companies offer a meager prize and then in bury in the fine print or legalese somewhere that by entering this contest you hereby agree: to [...]