Modern digital cameras are so capable that just about anything you want to do, you can do. You just have to figure out how. When my friend David showed me how to change the output of the flash on my venerable Canon G7 I was astonished.

"So I can get decent fill flash?"

"Of course you can. Why w...

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Six almost opened buds on a barrel-shaped cactus

Been waiting, each morning and each evening, for these.

Six opened flowers on a barrel-shaped cactus

Palm tree pruned to a knob

They pruned a palm next door. What were they thinking? Plonkers.

I was going to rant. I was going to rave. I was going to find a voodoo doll of my printer -- or maybe of Photoshop -- and stick pins in it. Because after I had spent a decent amount of time cleaning up a scan and getting it just so on the monitor, when I came to commit to print, the blasted imag...

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Interior of a corridor in the Summer Palace, Beijing

I tried a long and meaningful post about getting straight from flickr to here. But I was being too clever, and the words vanished into the aether. So I'm trying again, with a bunch of garbage words, just to see what's what.

I tried a long and meaningful post about getting straight from flickr to...

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