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You really need to see it bigger to appreciate the ad.

I’m not sure I’d ever buy an Olympus body, but this ad is funny. Hmmm, I wonder if women will be insulted?

Some sad news in the photo industry. Guess it’s just a sign of our changing times. Now what am I gonna do with my Vivatar Instant Slide Printer and Polaroid Pro camera?
Polaroid Closing

This was our header art for 2007.

Revolution in Mind and Deed doesn’t mean violence. It’s pointing toward a psychological change. Something radical that will change the way we live.

Rififi Nation is explained a bit on our About page.

The new header art was designed by Morris Taub. He’s also responsible for the bug photography. The black gritty grungy stuff at the top is Grunge Grit 2 by Asunder, a very cool photoshop brush/border that you can find here :

http://asunderstock.deviantart.com/art/Grunge-Grit-2-Borders-
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Wishing you all joy and health for this new calendar year 2008. Peace.

This image was taken at the Comedie, the largest square in the center of Montpellier. I darkened out the background to black. This was for a fujimugs competition. In the end I didn’t enter the photo. The image was also treated with Dragonizer, an action I used in Photoshop. It isn’t too obvious here at this small size. There is a third person, the one holding the camera, but he was totally blocked by his two friends.

I like this image for how it portrays so many of todays tourists. I like this tender moment frozen in time. If they aren’t using these tiny digital marvels they’re using cell phone cameras in similar manner. Happy holidays.

Poor Julius. Murdered on 15 March 44 bc.

This years PMA ended on Sunday 11 March. There was some interesting new tech stuff. Here’s a link if you’d like a pretty thorough rundown of all the stuff. Canon did introduce a fab new pro body, the 1dM3 I think it’s called.

Anyway, I was a little disappointed because I wanted to see an upgrade to Canon’s 5D. I have a four, well nearly five year old Canon D60 which only has like 4,000 clicks on it and is like new but I need more and better pixels. It’s mainly because an agency I do business with has an 11 million pixel minimum. The 5D would fit the bill but Canon has introduced some new things that I want in my next body. Vibration whatever you call it to help keep the sensor clean is one. Another is the ability to adjust front or back focus with the camera. No more need to send body or lens back to Canon for adjustment.

So I’m expecting, wanting some upgrades in whatever the next version of the 5D is. Ok, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that there is a next version. The other pro camera bodies accepted by this agency are the Canon pro 1’s and Nikon’s D2xs. But man oh man they are just too big and heavy for the type of work I do.

I’m also secretly hoping that Nikon puts a full frame sensor in its D200 line. I think the agency would accept that. I think I’d buy that if the sensor was good. If it gave low noise up to 1600 iso I’d be happy. Better if the low noise went up to 3200. I doubt it will happen but I’m hopin’ a little ’cause I already have two nice Nikon lenses I could use.

Hours trying to figure out the code stuff so I could change colors, column widths, and spacing for this Wordpress controlled blogarooni. Finally have it close to what I envisioned. Something clean looking but not too boring. I wonder if you find it a bore? Oh, here’s another photo. I wanna try something new. 1px border. Some height top and bottom. Yes. That’s working ok now. Just hate widows so I’ll add a bit of text. Ha.

It was good to change the title type color to red as well as all the link stuff. Man, the link stuff was this old computer blue. Bleech. But I’m just hating the letter spacing of the title type. The R I in Rififi is too far apart. Also the N A T it too far apart. I may try and replace it with similar type that is a png file or something done in illustrator or photoshop. I’m not sure I can though. Tonight I’m just too tired. Tomorrow, as they say, is another day. Kisses.