We like to use a loose-leaf calendar to keep track of the family schedule. Yahoo! Calendars is still invaluable for things like remembering birthdays and when the property tax is due, but for what events are going on this week, we find it more convenient to use a loose-leaf calendar that we can write on and leave near the dinner table.

Very occasionally, I end up with a nice picture that might look good on a calendar, so I thought I'd make my own. The one shown above was made while testing (it's my sister-in-law becoming my sister-in-law... and [...]

This post describes how I made the funky-color Kyoto fall leaves image from the other day.

I'd wanted to check out the vine growing through a bamboo fence again, in afternoon light (as opposed to the morning shade I'd seen it in before), so I went back on Wednesday afternoon. It was a productive visit, with a few shots of the fence that will certainly find their way here in the future. However, the subject of today's post is what I saw when I looked up.

Kyoto's impressive autumn colors are in full force now, but there are [...]

I've written up a primer on Digital Image Color Spaces. It talks about color spaces such as sRGB and AdobeRGB, what they mean to the digital photographer, and how to use them.

Judging by the images I see posted on the forums at Digital Photography Review, there are a lot of very good photographers who don't understand this computer-related subject -- a subject that's become more relevant in this age of digital cameras and the Internet presentation of photographs.

It's been quietly part of my photography tech page for a while as I gathered comments [...]
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