Natalie Tootie

More snow… blah. But it’s warmer today and the snow is getting wet and hopefully will melt away a little. My icicle has grown and now has finger-like tendrils. I figured I should get another picture before it drops. If you look to the right of the icicle, you can see some water droplets caught [...]

All this snow has left me longing for… less. After working like crazy I’m taking a little break from intensive blogging on my eighteen blogs. Well, the entries aren’t so hard, it’s the administration. I just snapped this picture of an icicle that I thought was particularly striking. Then I decided it wasn’t good enough. So [...]

While in many ways, Adobe Photoshop and its other products really are the best in their class, one can easily see that the company is fading fast. Adobe is still charging ridiculous amounts of money for Photoshop. I mean seriously, who spends $1,000 on a piece of software? Just the Photoshop faithful. They have barely [...]

Update: August 19, 2007. It turns out, despite all their whining, that this is mostly about SmugMug’s lowest common denominator attitude toward color profiles. Because IE doesn’t support them SmugMug has chosen to ignore the concept despite the capabilites of more advanced browsers. Apple’s browser, Safari, supports embedded color profiles so it’s capable of showing [...]

Today I received my first lens for my digital camera, aside from the one it came with. It is the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II. The reason to buy an SLR is for the quality of the photos they take, but also because of the fact that you can buy different lenses. In previous posts [...]