Squirrel!

This morning when I parked my car this guy was just sitting there eating his nut without a care in the world. Yes, I’ve got a great zoom on my camera, but I got within 5 feet of this guy without him even twitching at my presence. It wasn’t until a car drove by that he hopped up into the tree.

Posted in Fun Tagged with: animals, photography

Tuesday Tech Tip: Camera Grid-lines in iOS7

Here’s an Apple-product tech tip. If you’d like to see gridlines in the camera app you can turn them on, but not in the camera app. Head to Settings, then Photos & Camera. There you’ll find an on/off slider labeled Grid. Change accordingly.

Posted in Tech Tagged with: apple, camera, ios, photography

Troll the NSA with this app

USA PRISM Plus will randomly, secretly take photos and tweet them; either straight to the National Security Agency, or just to your friends. Several options are available to limit when photos are taken and what exactly will be tweeted. The app will only take photos when your device is in use and not set to silent.

Available in the .

Posted in Politics & Law Tagged with: nsa, photography, troll, twitter

Photoshop Before & After

See all the examples @ imgur.com.

Posted in Tech Tagged with: manipulation, photography, photoshop

Side-By-Side Photos Illustrate Inequality in America

In his series, Created Equal, Detroit-born photographer Mark Laita explores social inequality by placing photos of US citizens who appear to be the opposites of each other (punks teens and Amish, for instance) side by side. The series took eight years to complete and is meant to show the “successes and failures that America has experienced in its short life.” Click through for a gallery of photos from Created Equal, discovered via Bored Panda, and visit Laita’s website for more info on the project and the book that came out of it.

See all the photos on Flavorwire.

Posted in Fun Tagged with: photography

The Power of Books

More @ LaughingSquid.com.

Posted in Books, Fun, Photos Tagged with: blood, books, photography

“Preserving the Past of Present for the Future”

Posted in Libraries, video Tagged with: LC, library of congress, photography

25 Vintage Photos of Librarians Being Awesome

See all the photos @ Flavorwire.com.

Posted in Libraries Tagged with: b&w, librarians, libraries, photography

The false link between photography & terrorism

First watch this video:

Then read this article:

On the same day that federal investigators pleaded with the public for photos and videos that would help them identify the Boston Marathon bombers, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI released a memo stating the “discreet use of cameras or video recorders” could be interpreted as a sign that a terrorist act is being planned.

However, the Joint Intelligence Bulletin released April 16, one day after the attacks, failed to list any specific examples that this was the case, even though it listed several examples of previous planned terrorist attacks that were thwarted.

The truth is, the memo is simply rehashing the same information the feds have been stating for years, which is one reason why so many police officers and security guards tend to treat citizens with cameras as suspected terrorists.

Read the full article @ PhotographyIsNotACrime.com.

Posted in Politics & Law, video Tagged with: law, photography, police, terrorism

Things Organized Neatly

For some reason I’ve just spent way too much time looking through this site.

Things Organized Neatly. (Thanks Jennifer.)

Posted in Fun Tagged with: organization, photography, tumble