63Biscuit

I'd like to extend a heartfelt thanks to all of you who have collected, commented, and faved some of my work in the last few weeks.  I'd much prefer to leave you direct comments and appreciation, but alas, pressures of work, getting a house ready for rent, and continuing graduate work mean that I am limited to posting work and only looking around a little bit.  A long way to say: I can't get to all the messages personally.  Please understand I still appreciate your interest! So, again, thanks for your interest.  I've got some more coming that I hope you'll also find intriguing!

Got to a "real" car show tonight, and got to use my DSLR (Canon Rebel t3i, should you care) for the first time.  Wow.  Sometimes, it helps to have practiced, thought, and/or played around with something...in my case a lot.  I knew, in a tertiary way, what a DSLR *could* do, but this shoot felt like the first time that I was actually able to use the tool and tell a much more compelling "story" with the shots than I ever could with a Point and Shoot (which I loved, BTW).  Granted, a big dose of golden hour sunlight helped a bit...but I compared many of the shots taken tonight vs. those from even a year ago, and there's a whole world of differen

A big part of what I'm working on in Learning Technologies (LT) involves design and aesthetics.  As Don Norman put it, "we use more, and find it to work better, that which we find beautiful."  I couldn't agree more - and once you start paying attention to it, there's a LOT of "bad" design out there.  It might be functional, but it might be crudely built, or have an issue or two that drive you mad.  In car terms, I think this is reflective of the difference between a kustom and a hot rod.  Kustoms are all about aesthetics, even if it's a mild kustom like my Biscayne; speed and function are frequently secondary considerations here.  Hot rods ar