iPhone
My Home Screen
Last week I was on vacation when the chance to write something for Club MacStories [https://club.macstories.net/] popped up. Needless to say, I left my wife and son at the beach and found a suitable office to write 1400 words about the most hallowed ground for any geek,
Home Screens as Therapy
I have nothing against technology. I do have a problem with using technology as a crutch to keep you from being creative. I have a big problem with my natural, sometimes destructive, tendency to consume a lot of information. Batching time to consume helps, but sometimes it's more
Making a Thing
The most popular camera maker debuted its new product yesterday, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. If you want criticism of the product or a review of the presentation, go pretty much anywhere else today. What I like about these unveilings every year is that it’s all about
Stare at Your Phone More
A few weeks ago I was at a family party. I’d been wrangling a 3-year old all day and I was exhausted. As he went into a room full of other kids, I took a seat for the first time in hours. Knowing I had about 5 minutes left
The Wall Street Journal Doesn't Get Photography Yet
New gear doesn’t create “better photos.” A better subject, a new way of looking at a story - this is the stuff of better photos. I usually ignore articles like this because I see it so often, in so many publications. But it needs to be addressed when it
I Still Can't Be Ok With Just My iPhone
> “Life is really enjoyable, and we should be using all of our gadgets to capture the story of that enjoyment and whatever gadget you might use to do that — just make sure you are capturing the right things and not the ‘artsy’ things.”
Pleasure, Pain and Creativity
The more fun something is to use, the more you’ll use it. This explains the prolific nature of lomographers, iphonographers and instagramers. Of course, quantity has never meant quality. Creativity is spurred when there’s just enough pain to prompt thought, but not enough to keep you from clicking
Day One
I rarely write about apps, but every once in a while something helpful to my philosophy comes along and just have to sing its praises. I’ve been using Day One [http://dayoneapp.com] since…well…day one of its existence. In short, it’s a journaling app that makes
When Pros Attack
I got the feeling there was a coordinated attack on Lesser Photography this week. It started with a poorly researched article on Yahoo, More Americans Becoming Serious Photographers [http://news.yahoo.com/more-americans-becoming-serious-photographers-193239546.html] , which equated buying more lenses with becoming a more serious photographer. It was parroted [http://www.
A Glimmer of Hope
I used to [http://www.alesserphotographer.com/post/7474460141/the-ultimate-list-of-the-most-essential-iphone-photo] place all iPhone camera apps (and really all camera phone apps) into two categories: useful and distracting. The useful camp was usually a lonely place, population one: the basic image capture tool that came with the phone. The distraction camp