New Cycling Map!

After years of procrastination, I've finished my second Charleston-area bicycling map. These maps feature smaller, low-traffic roads that are good for road biking. Download them here.

Fabulous high speed photography....

... with a cheap Nikon D40 camera and home-made flash equipment. Hat tip to Tryg Inda.

Backlit Saturn

No, I didn't shoot this.
I'm always telling people to try shooting stuff backlit and see what happens. It can be more interesting than front lighting. Here's an example from the ever-fascinating site "Astronomy Picture of the Day".

Photos by Tom Hindman

Go here to see a slideshow of my friend Tom's best work for the Daily Mail.

Deep Glamour, from Virginia Postrel

Noted libertarian author Virginia Postrel (former editor of Reason Magazine) has started a new blog called Deep Glamour which, I'm happy to say is featuring some work by me, in a post and also on the masthead. Postrel's books (The Future and Its Enemies & The Substance of Style) deal with the economics of change along with the economic impact of good design. I've long linked to her Dynamist Blog but this new one promises to be more interesting to me as it will deal exclusively with design and style.

Funny

Go here to see how West Virginians see America.

Nepotism Linking

Many of you are familiar with my nephew Adam's blog... now Jonathan, one of my other nephews has started a blog about his adventures at sea.

The Squirrel and the Easter Bunny

Captured by Jerry Pennington... too funny!

Obama in West Virginia

Photo by Brooke Brown

My friend Brooke Brown got some up-close-and-personal shots of Obama's visit to Charleston. Included is a photo showing that Annie Leibovitz shoots with her left eye like I do. It's like being left-handed... cameras are designed for righties. Your nose is always smashing into things and pushing buttons that you didn't want pushed.

Nice link....

... for me today at Slashfood. Thanks Sarah J. Gim!

Mark Wolfe...

... a local designer has started a blog. Check it out.

Photography Exhibit in Grafton

I ran across this on BoingBoing. If you are in or near central West Virginia, you might want to check out this exhibit of railroad photos.

Big Boy Update

If you were interested in the Big Boy Monument I blogged about last week, there's new information in the comments. Click here to read.

Watch these tv shows...

... about photography on the web. The Prodig.org site runs a mailing list forum that I've participated in for years, but that's not what this is about. They have 3 episodes of the BBC program "The Genius of Photography" on their blog. I recommend it. It's partly about the history of photography but it also gets into the art and philosophy of photography. Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3.

A great story...

... about a digital camera, some good people, and a mystery. Click here to read.

Typing Test

61 words

Touch Typing online

The words seemed particularly easy to me, but still, I'm surprised my score was that high.

Play Blogger

Wanna see something interesting? This is a slideshow of photos being uploaded to Blogger in real time.