Written by Scott Williams who lives and works in sunny Phoenix, AZ. Twitter is also a place.

A Manual, Digital Camera?

One of the more revered basic film SLR’s is the Nikon FM2 . Same goes for some of the older Canon AE-1 or the ubiquitous student camera…

Last Day at Client

Location: Rula Bula. I will miss these people.

Music Pick: Streets

Kind of reminds me of The Hold Steady, with the way the lead singer “sings,” but british and more pop oriented. http://www.lala.com/#album…

Setups

First setup for staff portraits.

Music Of The Day: TV on the Radio

Solid stuff: http://www.lala.com/#album/432627039263998415/TV%20On%20The%20Radio/Dear%20Science

The Pursuit

I’ve posted a couple of quotes recently that on the surface seem to be a little depressing. However, it’s quotes like these that motivate me…

Alright, see you later!

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Nothing Is More Common Than Unsuccessful People With Talent

In the same vein of applying harsh self criticism : Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is…

Your Photos are Boring

Via  Chase Jarvis , paraphrasing  Seth Godin . Sorry, someone had to say it. Your photos are predictable. Your insights are recycled. You…

Setting Up CouchDB on Windows

From their wiki : Install the cygwin environment. Install the MS C compiler. Install and possibly build a number of pre-requisites, such as…

Changing a Light Bulb

Super Risk

You know what would be an amazing iPhone app? Take a long turn based strategy game like  Risk . When you turn on multi-player have it detect…

My DR Thank You Letter

I’ve received some positive feedback here for the letter I composed thanking the people who supported me financially on my  short term…

Usability

I was looking for a replace sync cord for one of my Alien Bee triggers, and noticed this fantastic piece of usability on their website…

In the work fridge

If you drank me then I was not yours. Please replace me with a new one. No questions. -Soda Signing it as “Soda” was my favorite part.

Lighting setup

Found an interesting way to  diagram lighting setups . It’s a little clunky, but seems serviceable. That couch is probably about 5 times…

Happy

Found via  Twitter . Far funnier than it has any right to be.

The Eternal Punching Bag

“Hardcore geeks may be thinking of something like alt-tab-5 to jump to the sixth window in the list or some such, but at that point we have…

Where I 'live'

Photo Business Cards

I think I might want to print up some business cards for my photography . I sketched out some basic designs today and will scan them in…