david braud photo blog

In their newsletter couple weeks ago the ever-awesome Photojojo described a way of shooting super close (nearly microscopic) macro photography by simply shooting through your lens backwards.  I was like, “NO WAY.” Then I forgot about the article… then I remembered the article, and now I’m posting my own unorthodox macro photography.

I decided to shoot some details of one of my most favorite posessions, my bike — a fuji road bike that I bought for $10 bucks, tore apart, and rebuilt into a mean little single speed.

camera: Canon 20D, lens: 50mm, f 1.8

wheel hub

headset (top)

headset (bottom)

front fork and wheel skewer

grip

brake cable thingy

seat post

and here she is as a whole!

A few months ago I installed a photography exhibit of my work at the local Starbucks (Not the Guggenheim, but lots of people sure come through).  Well, that was great, but then I realized it would be even more fun to have a photography show for EVERYONE.

Now not everyone has a fancy pants camera, so I decided it would be a camera-phone photo show.  And not everyone has a camera phone either, but the point is, just take a photo and email it to me from your phone… that’s pretty simple right?

Now, I didn’t want completely random photos, so I decided on a theme:  ”What brings you joy?”  

So, this exhibit/project is about getting people to work together.  To be a little bit creative. To take part in something that celebrates our shared humanity.   And to think about the things that really matter.  (THANK the GOOD GOD in HEAVEN above, no one sent me a picture of their Hummer, BMW or florescent yellow Toyota Prius.) 

My peeps came through.  I had about 60 people send in 150 photos.  Well done. This morning I installed the show and I’ve gotta say, it looks pretty darn good.  Here’s a shot taken with my camera phone (appropriate).  More photos to come soon.

The bookmarks bar in safari/firefox is fine, but half the time I can’t even find what I’m looking for.  I also forget to rename the bookmarks and don’t purge or re-organize enough.  So, yesterday I decided that I’d simply build a “home page” for safari or firefox to go to each time I launch my browser.  

This is super-easy to do… especially if you already have a website that’s easy to publish to.   I built and update my site with iWeb, so that’s what I use, but I know there are tons of options out there.  Take a look.   Below I’ll give you the quick 1.2.3 of how to create your own customized homepage.

1. Go to a site you ♡.

2. SHIFT + APPL + 4.  Now drag those cross hairs across a section of the window that you want to capture with a screen shot (see the graphics above)

3. Before you leave the page APPL + C the browser’s address bar… or you can always go back to it.

4. Create a web page… Organize the graphics you clipped… Link them to the page they represent… and publish that page.

5. Open Safari (or Firefox) and set the homepage (in Preferences) to that rad little page you just created.