Nakama

September 29, 2006 By 2 Comments

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So I’m using Nakama to upload my mobile pictures from my Nokia 6265i to flickr, since flickr can’t seem to process them correctly. Tip of the hat to Matthew for letting me know about the service. It’s great to see that someone like David is working on this new app.

I do wish there was an ability to have the service automatically tag my photos when publishing them to flickr. There are a few other minor bugs, which I am sure they will fix soon, otherwise it looks great. One of the neat features of this is how this service can actually be setup, so it calls you back after you have uploaded your image via mobile, so you can record a voice tag to the image.

Filed Under: Blog, Photography, Toronto

Wet Streets

September 28, 2006 By 1 Comment

Last night, after attending Case Camp 3 and after leaving the company of the outstanding Matt DeWaal I found myself standing in the rain along Queen street. The rain washed over me. I looked back at the street as it reflected the city light back at me. It was strangely refreshing and I was tempted to walk around a bit longer sto simply capture the beauty of the moment. My tired and hungry body thought otherwise.

Flickr URL * http://www.flickr.com/photos/photojunkie/254617672/

Filed Under: FinePixV10, Photos

Yellow Berries

September 27, 2006 By Leave a Comment

I thought I would post this shot I took last fall with the lensbaby 2.0. In celebration for the recently announced Lensbaby 3G. You’ll notice that there really isn’t much distortion in this image, which just goes to show that sometimes you don’t need to get too crazy with the lensbaby. Sometimes it’s just a useful lens to get closer to subjects if you don’t have a typical macro.

A great tip on to get closer to objects while using a lens baby is to actually pull the lens away from the camera body, allowing you to get a longer focal length, giving you a closer composition of the subject.

Flickr URL * http://www.flickr.com/photos/photojunkie/53624168/

Filed Under: Canon 10D, Lensbaby, Photos

Spacing Issue 7

September 27, 2006 By 1 Comment

Spacing Issue 7

Again, I’m a contributor to the latest issue of Spacing Magazine. This issue features 13 images that I have taken around the city. The magazine is already available on the spacing.ca as well as select stores. Or perhaps you’ll wanna pick up a copy at the launch party tomorrow night. I’ll be there, so should you.

SPACING #7 FALL 2006 RELEASE PARTY
Thursday, September 28
Gladstone Hotel, 8pm, $10

The release of the seventh Spacing is our most ambitious to date — we look back over three years and examine the success and failures of the 2003-2006 city council. We outline the 10 most important public space issues Toronto faces so that our politicians will wake up to a number of urgent matters: our dwindling urban forest; the spectre of Peak Oil and how the city is dealing with smog; how Toronto is mismanaging development putting unnecessary strains on our neighbourhoods; how the city is selling its infrastructure and getting very little in return; and 45 Things To Do for the next city council.

The issue also features articles on hanging out in cemeteries, riding your bike with headphones on, who invented Toronto’s ring-and-post bike rack, and a detailed map on how to get out of the Don Valley.

Contributors include: Ed Keenan (Eye Weekly), James Bow (Transit Toronto), Sarah Hood (co-author of The Unknown City), Mike Smith (Now magazine), cycling activist Steve Brearton, Paul Carlucci (Eye Weekly), Shawn Micallef of [murmur], Sean Lerner (TTC Rider Efficiency Guide), plus articles by Spacing editors Dale Duncan, Dylan Reid, and Matthew Blackett. The pages come to life with the work of Sam Javanrouh (Daily Dose of Imagery), Rannie Turingan (Photojunkie.ca), Adam Krawesky (inconduit.com), Bouke Salverda (aidanfotos.com), Payam Rajabi (colourblind.ca), illustrators Fiona Smyth, Julia Breckenreid and Joe Ollmann.

Filed Under: 15 minutes, Blog, Photojunkie, Toronto

Case Camp 3

September 27, 2006 By 2 Comments

Tonight is casecamp 3. It’s a marketing unconference open to anyone. Presenters share case studies of their work, with the goal of creating a commons for discussion, learning and networking.

  • Wednesday, September 27th
  • The Fifth Club
  • 225 Richmond Street West, 416-979-3000
  • 6:00 – doors open
  • 6:45 – the first case begins
    • Filed Under: Blog, Toronto

    SlapDash – Episode #008

    September 27, 2006 By 1 Comment

    HOT ONE listening Party

    Hot One has come to conquer the world and we were at their listening party at the Embassy in Kensington market last month to see what all the fuss was about. Check it out as the slapdash crew talks to some fans as well as Emm Gryner and Jordan Kern from the band.

    PS: There is a parental advisor on this podcast. So it’s questionable for work (watch it anyway, we won’t tell anyone!)


    Download File

    Show Notes from Episode #008:

  • HotOne Official Site
  • HotOne on Myspace
  • Emm Gryner (who new album Summer of High Hopes released yesterday)
  • Dead Daisy Records
  • Raymi The Minx
  • Serect Agent KR
    • Filed Under: Blog

    Lensbaby 3G announced yesterday at Photokina

    September 27, 2006 By Leave a Comment

    Remember that great little gadget the Lensbaby? (Of course you do, there’s an ad on this site that reminds you about it every time you visit) Well the lensbaby just got better. Yesterday, Lensbabies, LLC launched its 3rd generation selective focus Single Lens-Reflex (SLR) lens, Lensbaby 3G. The new lens pictured above now allows you to lock the lens into place and also give you the ability to fine tune the focus so you can hit the exact sweet spot everytime.

    As you can see in the photos above, the Lensbaby 3G is now equipped with three focusing rails that emerge from the camera mount and pass through the focusing collar. A trigger button on the focusing collar releases three pins that engage the focusing rails and lock Lensbaby 3G in a bent position.

    Craig Strong, the inventor of the lensbaby has this to say about the new lens, “The process of shooting with Lensbaby 3G is quite different than with Lensbaby 2.0, and the two lenses are optimized for different types of photography. While Lensbaby 2.0 is great for intuitive, fluid, photojournalistic shots, Lensbaby 3G is a workhorse for pros that require precise focusing, complete control, and repeatability.”

    The lensbaby 3G is on sale now at the lensbaby website and will be on sale at select dealers for $270 USD (a big jump from the $150 price tag of the 2.0). Orders won’t be shipped until mid-October and will be initially available in mounts for Canon EF and Nikon F camera bodies, with versions for Olympus 4/3rds/Panasonic, Pentax K/Samsung GX, and Sony Alpha/Minolta Maxxum digital and film SLR camera bodies are scheduled to ship in mid-November. This will give you plenty of time to grab one in time for Christmas. But I do suggest that you order one sooner rather than later, as I don’t know about their supply and demand.

    Filed Under: Blog, Photography

    The Prudence of Flesh

    September 26, 2006 By 1 Comment

    The Prudence of Flesh by Ralph McInerny

    So one of my photos appears on a mystery novel by Ralph McInerny. I was first approached by St. Martin Press last November, but I kept it hush hush till now.

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    St. Martin’s Press
    272 pages
    Size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/4
    $24.95
    Hardcover

    St. Martin’s Minotaur
    Pub Date: 08/2006
    ISBN: 0-312-35144-5

    Gregory Barrett, a classmate of Father Dowling’s, left the priesthood twenty-five years ago. Now, after all these years, a woman threatens to bring a multimillion-dollar suit against him, alleging he sexually exploited her when he was still a priest and she was sixteen. Barrett has no memory of her, but is devastated at what these claims will do to his career as a radio host and to his new family. So he comes to Father Dowling for advice. Father Dowling, a parish priest in Fox River, Indiana, as usual, serves as part counselor, part sounding board, and part moral compass for priests and parishioners alike—not to mention cops and lawyers—and offers help to both Barrett and his accuser.

    Before Barrett can decide what to do, and before the now-adult woman has made her demands known to the archdiocese, a body washes up on the shore of Lake Michigan, and Barrett becomes the primary suspect in the murder.

    Also in the mix in this astutely drawn mystery are a failed writer, a parish busybody, an inept lawyer, and an embittered young man, each with his or her own agenda, and it is up to Father Dowling to unravel the links between these people whose lives were separated long ago, only to reconnect in tragedy.

    Filed Under: 15 minutes, Blog, Bookish, Photojunkie
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