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I think Strobist has changed the way I look at photography, flash units and light, forever. Thank you!
Now, all I have to do is practice.

I found a simple Java application to backup my flickr photos to local harddisk - while many of them exist on my computer already and were just added to flickr for sharing, there are lots of camera phone pictures I don’t have around anywhere else. Thus such a thing makes sense.
However, the tool is a […]

N800
Originally uploaded by TuomasKuosmanen
Must join the mugshot herd!

rock painting of a horse skull?
Last week I was riding the bus to work.. and I looked at the back window.
I first thought there was an ad of some tribal art exhibition in a museum, as there clearly was an image of a horse or cow skull staring at me.
But another look revealed it was […]

Just to let you know, there’s a really really good camera store in Cambridge, MA, near the Galleria shopping center. Google maps directions here, it’s about a mile away from MIT Media Lab.

2002: A Barbican Odyssey
Originally uploaded by docpi
Oh man. This photo, taken by Daniel, is really interesting in a strange way. It just captures you very strongly. Wow.

Stumbled on this pretty nice site which lets you plot stuff on a map, using the google maps API and lets you either link to the map (like this) or embed it on your own site (let’s see how this works, below - and whether planet likes it or not..)

Edit: Ok, looks like planet […]

gnome-summer
Originally uploaded by tigert.
Thanks to Ravi for reminding me we also need more desktop wallpapers.. duh.

n770-summer
Originally uploaded by tigert.
Maybe some of you Nokia 770 users will enjoy this very summer themed wallpaper I did - I shot it this morning when fetching the dogs back from my mom’s place (they were having a vacation there during GUADEC).
The wallpaper should work nicely with the new OS2006 upgrade that was recently released.

So in my mad blogging spree, i started to add some photos to the GUADEC Flickr group. Check it out, it has quite a bit of content already. And also, add your pics too, and comment away