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Avoid random camels
While flipping through Budget Travel this morning, I came across a wonderful rundown of the latest tourist rip-offs. I was reminded to watch out for semi-trained monkeys that go after your valuables—and wild ones that may “borrow” your camera for a self-portrait. Photos: David J Slater/Caters, via Telegraph.com I was also reminded that some scams [...]
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Tags: Budget Travel magazine, Italy, Paris, pickpockets, safety, travel scams, travel tips
Is someone stealing your photos?
When I accidentally documented the 35W bridge collapse in 2007, my photojournalist friends advised me to hire a rights-management agency—and fast. I was grateful for their advice: Within 24 hours, my images were all over the Internet. Most of the online news sites had acquired the photos through the Associated Press. But a handful of [...]
Filed under: Ethics, How to ..., Photography, Psychology, Technology | 14 Comments
Tags: copyright, Heather Munro photographer, Heather Munro photography, Photography, protecting photo rights, reverse image search, rights managed, rights management, TinEye, visual artist
How to re-press pressed powder
With apologies to my male readers: Today’s post is uncharacteristically girly (and truly random). But perhaps you’ll want to read anyway, in case you ever need to cheer up a dejected woman who has accidentally smashed her expensive makeup to smithereens. A few years ago, I was ecstatic to find a pressed powder light enough [...]
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Tags: broken compact, how-to makeup, MAC blot powder, makeup, postaday2011, pressed powder
Lorem ipsum dolor si amet?
One of my favorite things about working with graphic designers is that—from a design standpoint—my copy is inconsequential. In fact, my designer friends would just as soon paste in some “Greek” as they would my carefully crafted prose. Never mind that the Greeked-in copy is actually Latin. Look at a rough layout, and more often [...]
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Tags: Bacon Ipsum, Dr. Who, dummy copy, Gangsta Ipsum, graphic design, Greek, Latin, layout, Monty Python, postaday2011, Star Wars, Tuna Ipsum, writing
Typography Tuesday
I can’t believe it’s been almost two years since I last wrote about typography. (If you’re a font geek, you may want to check out my list of common typographic diseases.) Typography is one of my secret obsessions. Maybe it’s because—as a writer—I know that mere words will only get me so far. Words may [...]
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Tags: fontplay.com, fonts, postaday2011, typographical diseases, typography
You know how some people have a “junk drawer” full of broken rubber bands and straightened-out paper clips? I have the digital equivalent on my computer: It’s a folder called “desktop miscellaneous.” For the first time in ages, I opened that folder today and rummaged through its contents. There was a lot of stuff related [...]
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Tags: 1973 Internet, alpine rescue, apartment rental contract, Bent Objects, digital junk drawer, digital scrapbooking, heather munro blog, junk drawer, modeling headshots, Paris apartment rental, postaday2011, savethewords.org, Terry Border
How my dad became a pirate
I got an email from my friend Todd this morning. “Where’d you find that Loch Ness Monster photo?” he asked. He was referring to a little prank I played on my readers a couple of days ago. Clearly, Todd doesn’t know about my obsession with Photoshop. “I made that photo,” I wrote back. I told [...]
Filed under: Attempted humor, Friends and family, How to ..., Photography, Technology | 10 Comments
Tags: bigfoot, digital darkroom, digital manipulation, Elvis, Loch Ness Monster, Photography, Photoshop, Photoshop layers, postaday2011, postproduction, sasquatch
Mushroom porn
I’ve been looking forward to today since February. That’s when my friend Pam and I set the date for our annual morel mushroom hunt. “Is this our third year, or our fourth?” I asked Pam today as we tromped through the woods. “I think it’s our third,” she replied from down the trail. And she’s [...]
Filed under: Attempted humor, Brain tumor, Friends and family, How to ..., Minnesota, Photography | 6 Comments
Tags: attempted humor, Frontenac, humor, Minnesota, morel, morel mushrooms, mycology, Pam, postaday2011
Have you ever watched someone fight valiantly to stay awake? That was me this afternoon. I have no idea why anyone would schedule a two-hour meeting right after lunch—and with copious charts and diagrams, no less. At first it was just my eyelids that felt heavy, then my head and arms. Finally my entire body [...]
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Tags: fatigue tips, how to stay awake, humor, postaday2011, sleepiness during meetings, writing
