45 Dual-Screen Wallpapers

From Six Revisions:

If you have two monitors in your work environment -- a common set up amongst design and development professionals -- you can use a desktop background made for users who have multiple screens. If you would like to find out about tools that give you the ability to use multiple monitors and computers, you may be interested in reading about five free tools for multi-monitor computer set-ups.

Click here to see all 45 dual-screen wallpapers.

Large Photo From Recent Sedona Hike

Here's one more photo from the recent hike I took with my youngest daughter, Rayel, long-time family friend, Douglas, and two friends of Rayel's, Myles from New Zealand and Matt from Zimbabwe. You'll need to click on this photo to see a larger image which, in turn, will let you see where the hikers are (and how big the rocks are). Before you click on the image, can you guess where the hikers are? There are some impressive Native American ruins immediately in front of the hikers, just around the corner to the left...

Photos From Recent Sedona Hike

Here are a few photos from a recent hike I took with my youngest daughter, Rayel, long-time family friend, Douglas, and two friends of Rayel's, Myles from New Zealand and Matt from Zimbabwe.

Are New Image Sensors About To Revolutionize Digital Cameras?

Cheap Naked Chips Snap A Perfect Picture
By Paul Marks
New Scientist
October 7, 2009

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How can image sensors -- the most complicated and expensive part of a digital camera -- be made cheaper and less complex? Easy: take the lid off a memory chip and use that instead.

As simple as it sounds, that pretty much sums up a device being developed by a team led by Edoardo Charbon, an engineer at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute (EPFL) in Lausanne. In a paper presented at an imaging conference in Kyoto, Japan, this week, the team say that their so-called "gigavision" sensor will pave the way for cellphones and other inexpensive gadgets that take richer, more pleasing pictures than today's devices. Crucially, Charbon says the device performs better in both very bright light and dim light -- conditions which regular digital cameras struggle to cope with.

Read complete article.

Sedona Celtic Harvest Festival - 2009

Here's a short video from Sedona's first annual Celtic Harvest Festival. The Festival took place Saturday, September 19, 2009 in Sedona, Arizona at the Hilton Sedona Resort & Spa and Tequa Festival Marketplace. To watch another video and find out more about the event, go here. To see photos from the Festival, go here. To visit the Festival's website, go here. The theme song for the video below, "Feel So Near", is sang by Steve Colby and John Good of Oceans Apart.

Sedona Private Guides

On September 16, 2009, I headed down to Red Rock Crossing with Eric, Dennis, and Nathan of Sedona Private Guides for a photo shoot. The light was perfect — cloudy with sunlight breaking through in waves of cinematic perfection. You can find a few photos from this shoot posted here. Sedona Private Guides called me because Dennis Andres, the owner of Sedona Private Guides, was happy with a portrait session we did together last year. You can find a few photos from the session Dennis and I did together posted on his website and in my portrait gallery.

Mac OS X v10.6: About Gamma 2.2

Gamma is a numerical value that describes the relationship between the varying levels of brightness or luminance that a monitor can display or a digital camera or camcorder can capture. To better serve the needs of consumers and digital content producers, Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard uses a gamma value of 2.2 by default. In versions of Mac OS X prior to 10.6, the default system gamma value was 1.8. Using the capabilities of ColorSync, the gamma value of 2.2 is automatically applied and seamlessly transitions your display, images and videos to the new gamma value. If you are a graphic or video professional, click here for more information.

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Some images that do not contain color profiles might appear darker in Mac OS X v10.6 than they did in earlier versions of Mac OS X. Adding the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 profile or Adobe RGB (1998) profile to these images lets them display correctly.

You can use Preview to add or replace a color profile to your images. Follow these steps to add or replace a color profile to your image. For batch processing of images, see "Using Automator..." in the below additional information section.

Note: When replacing the color profile, once saved there is no way to undo this process other than by restoring an earlier copy of the image. Make sure you have the proper color profile selected. If you are not sure, duplicate the images or make a backup copy of the images. Tip: Time Machine is a great way to keep an automatic backup of your images and other files.

1. Open your image in Preview.

2. From the Tools menu choose Assign Profile...

3. From the "ColorSync Profile:" pop-up menu select the appropriate color profile.

4. From the File menu choose Save (or Save As to save a different copy).

Great Images From The Sacramento Bee

Great images from the Sacramento Bee's multi-media staff.

Sky Above Cathedral Rock On Fire

A powerful storm passed over Sedona late this afternoon. After unloading a lot of rain, the storm passed and set the sky on fire as it left. Here's what I saw on my drive home this evening (Photoshop enhanced)...

Stephanie & Travis

Here are a few photos from a recent wedding in Sedona.

Pulse

This website has pretty much nothing to do with photography. It does, however, have a fantastic collection of daily news, breathtaking videos, mind-tweaking books, cutting-edge links, and some of the best "Twitter Dynamos" in the Twitterverse. Oh, and it's run by yours truly. Come check it out. Here's an example of the kind of videos that can be found in the video section of this website:

Curious Squirrel Becomes Famous

A squirrel who appeared in Melissa Brandts' holiday photograph at Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park, Canada. Read more here.

Video & Stills: The Longest Way 1.0

The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.

Nikon Announces D300s & D3000

For information about Nikon's new D300s, go here. For information about Nikon's new D3000, go here.

Concerning the D300s, Scott Kelby writes:

"As expected, it has lots of video features, including built-in HD video capabilities (720p), a stereo mic input, in-camera video editing features, auto-focus, and it has a dual card slot so you can shoot stills to a Compact Flash card, and send your video to an SD card.

"On the still side: it shoots more frames per second (7 fps, or 8 with the battery grip); it has dedicated buttons for Live View (great for switching to video quickly) and the Info Screen (like some of the Nikon’s recently released models), and a 'Quiet Drive' mode for shooting in situations where you want the camera to make as little noise as possible (weddings, wildlife, etc.). Also, the D300s got the same Multi-Selector wheel as the D3/D700, which is a step up, and it includes the Virtual Horizon feature from the D3/D700 as well.

"You can resize and process Raw images from within the camera (it comes with four built-in presets), it has built-in sensor cleaning, and a few other bells and whistles...

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Ken Rockwell on the new D300s

Great Photographers: Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk, photographer, and author. He has lived and worked in the Himalayan region for forty years. His website is dedicated to his photographs and his books, and to sharing some of the inspiration he received from his spiritual masters. Matthieu donates all proceeds from his work and much of his time to thirty humanitarian projects in Asia: www.karuna-shechen.org.

From Joe McNally's Blog...

Here are a couple of cool, creative images from a recent post on Joe McNally's Blog...

The Nikon D-Movie Screening Room

From Nikon's new "Nikon D-Movie Screening Room" website:

"The Nikon D90 and D5000 deliver stunning HD-quality movie clips with beautiful image quality and sound. Both accept a wide range of interchangeable NIKKOR lenses, providing outstanding optical quality allowing for a variety of cinematic perspectives. Nikon’s D-Movie function can open new channels of creativity for everyone. In the hands of a professional cinematographer, D-Movie has the power to move and inspire."

50 Photo Apps For Mac Users

50 Mac-friendly applications for various areas of photography: organizing, post-processing, geo-tagging, panoramas, HDR images, uploading/sharing images, and more.

Top 10 Wired Reader Macro Photos (from 2008)

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Paparazzi Shots From Sedona Wedding

A few paparazzi shots from a recent wedding in Sedona. Click on the photos to see a larger image.

Galactic Center Of Milky Way Rises Over Texas Star Party

Time lapse video of night sky as it passes over the 2009 Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas. The galactic core of Milky Way is brightly displayed. Images taken with 15mm fisheye lens. Created by William Castleman.

Sean Stiegemeier Timelapse Photography At Yosemite

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Sean Stiegemeier website.

Very Cool: Eclectic 2.0: Earth, Water, Sky

Eclectic 2.0: Earth, Water, Sky from Ross Ching on Vimeo.

Ross Ching writes: "My second time lapse experiment. I took about 25,000 still photographs over the course of a few months and stitched them together into this."

Cool: Eclectic 3.0: The Roads Less Traveled

Eclectic 3.0: The Roads Less Traveled from Ross Ching on Vimeo.