Another term we know but may not fully understand is Serif: This refers to the small stroke or line attached to the larger stroke of a letter; an example would be an A with “feet” at the bottom of each down-stroke. Sans Serif simply means “without Serif”. The first moveable-type...
Each time I arrive at Valley View, I survey the conditions before deciding where to set up. Sometimes the whole scene is fantastic and I stay in front of the parking lot for my version of the shot that’s been taken a million times. But when El Capitan is getting the best light, I ...
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.” ~ Stephen Hawking Apart from the newness, variety and number of birds what made our daily ventures into the Zakouma bush so f...
The one I spent a lot of time in was in Times Square (near Pop Photo, so I could head over there for a quick shot of therapy if I needed it). They even had a book department and a movie theater on one of their levels! They didn’t even have front doors – you could walk rig...
” On searching one of the suspect’s rooms, the detectives found a micrometer missing from the Iron Works. The death of Robert Brown was announced in 1941. He was described as president and founder of Burrard Iron Works, aged 76, and born in New Brunswick. He initially moved to ...
And I found the company’s Los Angeles “western” headquarters, which, when it was built in 1948 by Wurdeman and Becket was, at the time of its construction, the tallest and largest privately owned structure in the city, spanning two city blocks and holding 517,000 square feet of office...
But even here I would argue that in most cases it aids creativity to “zoom with the feet,” or walk around to compose the best shot. Even when this isn’t possible, a high-resolution digital image can easily be cropped in post-processing to achieve the composition the photographer had ...
For intelligence use, it's easy to see what's going on in that row of houses 440 meters (1,440 feet) away and counting, and this is from casual hand-held snapped images.For practical use, it means you don't need a telephoto lens because you always can crop from shots made with ...
The superior sharpness only matters if you're genuinely making prints 30 feet wide; for all normal uses, including making 40 x 60" (1 x 1.5 meter) prints, all today's cameras are the same — but Nikon's colors are unbeaten regardless of picture size....
I recently took a trip to the Ayrshire town of Kilmarnock to see Tom Lightbody’s stunning mural of Lady Kilmarnock on the gable of a wall on St Marnock Square. Lady Kilmarnock, Lady Anne Livingston Boyd was married to the 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, a Jacobite, who was captured, taken to...