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What’s in the Edges of Your Pictures?

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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 platform, you ought to seriously consider switching.

It’s like getting 2 computers for the price of one. A word of caution here though. Some of your peripherals may have driver issues. But there shouldn’t be anything major except..

When you hit the “Eject” button to open the DVD drive, (your cup holder) it might close spilling your cup of coffee.

Anyway, Jude was kind enough to share some of her pictures from Flickr with me. Continue reading What’s in the Edges of Your Pictures?

US Open Badminton Finals 2009

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On this final night at the US Open, I spent more time watching than taking pictures.

The downside to being a photographer is, whenever I attend an event that I enjoy, I also want to take pictures to document it.

Badminton has been my favorite sport since I was 9 or 10, so I was torn between watching and making pictures.

That, and  I didn’t want my son to be sitting in the stands by himself all evening.

Fan Favorite–Indonesia’s Taufik Hidayat applauds his fans after beating Taiwan’s Hsueh Hsuan Yi for the Mens Singles title.

I know my son enjoyed the evening especially at the end when he got the autographs of  the  Mens Doubles champions Tony Gunawan and Howard Bach.
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Sports Photography–Badminton US Open 2009

ann_servingThis year’s US Open at the Orange County Badminton Club in Anaheim, California took place over the weekend.

For the uninitiated, badminton is very popular outside of the US.

The world’s fastest racquet sport (also spelled racket) is an Olympic medal sport.

Here in the US, badminton is regarded as a backyard summer activity and often the brunt of  jokes.
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Should Your Photography Remain A Hobby?

As promised, here is the link to my post on Rising Blackstar.

It’s for those considering turning professional. That’s just a fancy way of saying you want to do it full time to make a living.

It has nothing to do with owning and walking around with a “professional-looking camera.”

If equipment made it so, then all the rich folks with high-performance sports cars would be professional drivers, wouldn’t they?

If you have any comments, please leave them here as well after you read it.

Should Your Photography Remain a Hobby?