Reflecting on politics can make you blue
Tuesday, January 31st, 2023 Alive 18,907 days
Monday, October 17th, 2022 Alive 18,801 days
Atlantic City can't get a break
Friday, August 19th, 2022 Alive 18,742 days
Looking for a fine collection of photos depicting Mozambique, Italy, Japan, and the Middle East? Just search Adobe Stock for “Atlantic City, New Jersey.”
Failsourcing
Sunday, August 14th, 2022 Alive 18,737 days
Crowdsourcing used to be all the rage in the tech industry. It was a way to get content for your project for free. Use your automation system to ask enough people for content, and some small percentage will happy oblige. The problem with crowdsourcing is quality control.
If you let anyone contribute anything, anyone will contribute anything. I once built a crowdsourced system for people to share photographs of landmarks. A significant percentage of the photos contributed were people standing in front of a camera holding up their resumes, presumably hoping that someone searching for a photo of the Berlin Wall might magically hire them to write code in India.
In the example above, we see the result of two levels of folly. Getty Images allows anyone to upload photographs to its system in order to sell those pictures to other people. That's the crowdsourcing. Then Apple outsourced photography for Apple Maps to a bunch of entities, including Wikipedia, TripAdvisor, and also Getty Images.
The result is a photo of a city in China among the photographs that are supposed to depict the West Texas city of Midland.
Never trust content you don't control.
I can see my luggage from here
Tuesday, August 9th, 2022 Alive 18,732 days
“Try to look like you're on skag”
Friday, July 29th, 2022 Alive 18,721 days
Have you ever noticed that if you search for “doctor patient vaccine” in Adobe Stock, 90% of the fake doctors injecting their fake patients are using the same technique that a junkie uses to mainline skag? Have these photographers never received any kind of vaccine ever in their lives?
Laser focused
Sunday, July 24th, 2022 Alive 18,716 days
Rain-dappled?
Friday, July 1st, 2022 Alive 18,693 days
BushX
Saturday, June 25th, 2022 Alive 18,687 days
Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 Alive 18,664 days

Paper or plastic?
Monday, May 23rd, 2022 Alive 18,654 days
Chocolate rain
Sunday, May 22nd, 2022 Alive 18,653 days
Mortar-bored
Monday, May 16th, 2022 Alive 18,647 days
A young woman celebrates graduation by throwing her cap into the air from a car that my Uncle Eddie would have driven in the 1970's.
His was better because it had curb feelers. Hers is better because itʼs in pristine condition in 2022, while his is probably rusting away at the bottom of Gravesend Bay.
All hats, no cattle
Sunday, May 15th, 2022 Alive 18,646 days
It was just this morning I was thinking that I donʼt see so many cowboys in Houston anymore. Then, just before lunch, a clown car full of them drove up to the roof of my parking garage and belched out a whole passel of dudes.
Those are not lampshades in the foreground. Those are the kinds of cases that are used to transport big-ticket cowboy hats on planes. There are cowboy hats that cost more than a MacBook Pro.
Twinkle twinkle
Friday, April 15th, 2022 Alive 18,616 days
Discovery “Green”
Friday, April 15th, 2022 Alive 18,616 days
Discovery Green at night. You canʼt see the park for all the lights and buildings, which is mostly true durng the day, as well. There is a trend in modern park design to over-build in order to make a single park everything for everybody. The result is that very often, as in the case of Discovery Green, it ceases to be a park and is transformed into a playground for adults.
Monday, November 8th, 2021 Alive 18,458 days
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021 Alive 18,445 days
Pile it on
Saturday, September 25th, 2021 Alive 18,414 days
Right purdy
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021 Alive 18,361 days
🌓
Monday, May 31st, 2021 Alive 18,297 days
That red spec is the Desert Truckster
Saturday, April 24th, 2021 Alive 18,260 days
Red dawn
Tuesday, April 20th, 2021 Alive 18,256 days
Monday, April 19th, 2021 Alive 18,255 days
Slippery When Wet
Thursday, April 15th, 2021 Alive 18,251 days
Ram tough
Thursday, April 15th, 2021 Alive 18,251 days
If this is what rush hour looks like, you may be in the Valley of Fire.
Monday, April 12th, 2021 Alive 18,248 days
Dye, you egg! Young fry of treachery!
Friday, April 2nd, 2021 Alive 18,238 days
Like nothing at all?
Monday, March 15th, 2021 Alive 18,220 days
Moody much?
Monday, February 15th, 2021 Alive 18,192 days
A peak performance
Friday, February 12th, 2021 Alive 18,189 days
Sunrise was a little bit different today, so I broke out the good camera. I'll have to do some processing on it to get out the grain, but it's OK for this hour of the morning.
The clouds are over California. The mountain in front is Griffith Peak (11,063 feet), and the one in its shadow is Charleston Peak (11,916 feet).
Frame job
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 Alive 18,180 days
Yes
Saturday, January 30th, 2021 Alive 18,176 days
Drink it in
Friday, January 8th, 2021 Alive 18,154 days
Friday, March 6th, 2020 Alive 17,846 days
Right now, in preparation for our move in two months, Darcie is using a vintage Polaroid to take pictures of each pair of her shoes.
Itʼs pretty much the most Darcie thing Iʼve seen in a long time.
Sunday, February 24th, 2019 Alive 17,470 days

I took the Hasselblad out to the Valley of Fire today. My main lens is just about toast because so much sand gets into it on these trips.
Sunday, February 24th, 2019 Alive 17,470 days

When I load photos of Valley of Fire into programs like Lightroom, they automatically crank the color down 15 notches because the programmers at Adobe in Seattle canʼt conceive of a place that isnʼt as humid and grey as where they live.