Blog posts written elsewhere that are republished here via the magic prowess of RSS.
Checking all of the meters, spinning a few dials… ah there we are, signal. It has been a week since we launched the Headless ds106 course and on seeing the posts that have come in, the burst in twitter activity, I am pretty happy about the level of activity. More than that, it is very […]
The point of ds106 Daily Creates is something that should not take much work, so really it is more than enough to just do them and get them posted somewhere. It is helpful, and suggested for people in Headless ds106 who have some experience, to try sharing some of the behind the scenes notes of […]
Since the last post, I have started the theme tinkering with this blog that is part of the first week of headless ds106 I just fished around the themes on wordpress.org you get to right inside the dashboard (Appearance — Themes — Install). I checked the option to show themes related to photoblogging, and took […]
I started this blog in 2012 for the first ds106 class I taught at the University of Mary Washington– mainly to be using the same web hosting (then on Cast Iron Coding) my students were using. It has hoisted some class materials for that semester, but mostly since then has idled as a place to […]
I bet I crop 90% of my photos in post editing. Sometimes it is minor, to remove a distracting element on a margin, but often, I feel like I can make a less interesting photo more so by using the crop tool to isolate detail or just frame it better. Should I ever teach a […]
There are times when I am in a place, in a space, when my gut instinct says, “there is an interesting photo here” even if I do not know exactly what it is. Usually it is vivid or interesting light, as was partly the case here, This photo is from a store in Flagstaff Arizona […]
Alas the rodent urchins of the web have been pummeling Hippie Hosting in a relentless DDOS attack, ending a long problem-less spree since Tim moved the server in the beginning of the year. It’s also taken down ds106. The hippies are slumbering cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by abby chicken […]
If you have not seen the 2009 video at the Sasquatch concert where one dude got a whole crowd going: What the handheld video left out was a just before he started gyrating, he was got his moves from the Bava This is a few days late for the ds106 Month of GIF mania suggested […]
Maybe the best photographic advice I came across (forgetting the source) is to “Look for the light”. At first, this might seem the textbook kind of suggestion of always having the light come from behind. But this is different. Look for interesting light. This means looking for both the vivid light of sunrise/sunset, the diffuse […]
If you see my flickr stream you will find a lot of flower photos. In some ways there are not too many things you can do to change up the standard shot. In lieu of having a macro lens, I have an approach for these extreme closeups– for me, I find this move in very […]
