A Random Friday

Death Valley National Park – Mesquite Dunes (converted to black and white using Silver Efex Pro)

The rains have returned and today is a slow Friday as everyone else heads in to the weekend (still enjoying that 365 day vacation!). After consultation with the doctor…yep…I pierced my own ear drum with a q-tip. How might you ask? I would suggest that if you have a Q-tip in your ear, and drop something, do not under any circumstances bend over to pick it up. I also made an interesting discovery, if we had gone in with my previous insurance I would have been paying $30 for the co-pay, + whatever they would have charged the insurance company. Simply paying cash, the visit was $50. Our healthcare system is really screwed up.

• Speaking of screwed up, the post was taken down which is a shame…for $4000 you too could have joined ZORIAH (doesn’t that sound like the name of an Adam Sandler movie?) for an intimate photo journalism class and documented the recent tragedy in Haiti. Here’s the link, that was removed after his blog post was apparently ripped to shreds by fellow webians http://www.zoriah.net/blog/2010/02/photojournalism-workshops-haiti-earthquake-intimate-group-workshop.html
• As I was perusing the work of Matt Stuart I noticed something (that I usually notice anyways, but I’m in the midst of writing a blog post and hence I bring it up)…street photography just works better in black and white. If you look at the two portfolios Matt has, one in color and one in black and white, at least from my perspective the black and white images are more powerful than the color, even if the subject matter is very similar.
• I was reading a depressing article on the future of stock photography, but came away with a fabulous link to the work of Diane Cook & Len Jenshel. Definitely a different look at some iconic locations in the west.
• PixelatedImage runs a monthly free wallpaper. I’ve done some wallpaper in the past but don’t know if there’s a real interest in it. Thoughts?

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