This past week had a lot of news worthy events that photographers and other creatives should be paying close attention to particularly in regard to Fair Use and Getty Image’s recent pricing announcement. Fair Use First the Computer and Communications Industry Association, a lobby group for technology companies, released a controversial report claiming that Fair Use adds more revenue to the economy than Copyrigh
The past few months I’ve been making efforts to minimize my waste footprint by choosing products that utilize less packaging particularly those using various forms of plastic. If products I or my wife use contain plastic we’re now more aggressively checking to see if it can be recycled. My wife has begun a loose phone campaign to inform manufacturers and resellers of “organic” products, as we
This evening I attended the Fotovision.org lecture on “The Legal Landscape of Street Shooting“. The panel included: David Greene, Executive Director of “The First Amendment Project“ Pondra Perkins is a Staff Attorney and Environmental Advocacy Fellow at “The First Amendment Project“ James Wheaton, co-founder of the “The First Amendment Project“ This was by far one of th
If you’re in the San Francisco Bay area I highly recommend attending the following discussion at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley: The Legal Landscape of Street Shooting June 24th, 2007 at 6:30-8:30PM Registration is only $10 and the lecturer should be great. David Greene, Executive Director of The First Amendment Project is an experienced litigator for First Amendment issues, a founding member
Reported today (July 16th): “Two coyotes shot to death in Golden Gate Park” – SF Gate Why should you care? Why do I care? For those that don’t live in the area a little background… the coyotes in Golden Gate Park are something new. Coyotes have recently repopulated portions of San Francisco after decades of absence. It was a huge mystery how coyotes made it back into such a densely popul
Grizzly Gulch at the San Francisco zoo opened today (June 14th). Grizzly Gulch is home to Kachina & Kiona, two rescued Grizzly Bear cubs who narrowly avoided being euthanized in Montana. Kachina & Kiona’s MySpace page with their story During lunch today I decided to take a peek at Kachina & Kiona’s new home. The one acre exhibit is quite nice with a pond, waterfall and meadow for the bears
One of the biggest oddities about me it is that I can wait through most any situation to get the right lighting, angle, moment, etc. for a photograph, yet I can’t stand having a wrapped present in front of me for any prolonged period of time. In fact as a kid I used to surgically open gifts around the holidays to see what was being given and then methodically rewrapping and taping them back up. Having come clea
I’m a bit reluctant to add “5 Most Common Digital Photography Mistakes” to the blog as it speaks to things that are for most common sense. Regardless it’s fair to say that most everyone has made these mistakes even if we’re too proud to admit it. So for the experienced photographers I apologize in advance if these mistakes bring back bad memories or spur flashbacks. For those new to phot