Instagram Love

Having so little internal memory on my Android “smartphone” means that I regularly swap out apps depending on my current needs. Instagram was removed in favor of other apps before our trip in… Read More →

Goodbye Posterous, Hello WordPress.com

And another web service bit the dust this past week. Posterous, which was bought by twitter, officially shuttered its doors on the 30th of April. Posterous has promised that users’ backup/export files will… Read More →

The Doors

Doors and doorways fascinate me, especially when I travel. They can be practical or extravagant, solid or ethereal. Here are a few I saw recently in Basel, Switzerland. The trip to Basel itself was unfortunately… Read More →

Instagram Shut Down Hurt Twitter

When Twitter cut off Instagram from its API there were questions about the effect the move would have on Twitter. As it turns out the shutdown hurt Twitter’s quarter-over-quarter engagement per photo fell,… Read More →

Weekly Photo Challenge: Lost in the Details

Lupine blooming Seasonal visitors on Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) And all the rest:

Comments and Images

One of the lesser-known improvements (to me, anyway) that WordPress.com implemented at the end of November 2012 was the ability to manage Discussion Settings on images, in addition to Posts and Pages. As… Read More →

Instagram on WordPress.com

Besides being able to embed Instagram photos on your WordPress.com site, I just realized that perhaps you don’t know that since Instagram now lets you log in on its website to view your… Read More →

Reflection

As I said in my last post, I feel inhibited about photographing people, especially when it comes to self-portraits. Just the thought of sitting for the camera is as difficult for me as getting… Read More →

Patti Smith: Photographer's Muse

Reblogged from LightBox: TIME asked artist, writer and musician Patti Smith, one of this year’s TIME 100 honorees, to tell us about her life in front of the lens. Smith shares some of… Read More →