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Extending Myers-Briggs
Thanks to yours truly, the oft-maligned corporate tool known as Myers-Briggs has a new extension that applies directly to photographers. Whether or not this is a good thing is totally up to you.
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A Minor Delay
What does one do when one vows to publish at least one article per calendar-month, yet arrives back home — jet lagged and fully booked — on the final day of a month spent mostly in Tokyo? One writes a short article to explain why there’s no article that month — thus honoring (though somewhat…
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On Myth and Minitars
Recently, the mad scientists at Lomography surgically removed the Minitar lens from their cult-classic LC-A camera, tarted it up by grafting on a Leica M-mount bayonet, and sent it into the night to tempt us weak and sinful lens addicts. I’m only human. I succumbed. And here, for the benefit of other weaklings, is my…
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Human 2.0
I haven’t seen any mention via online rumour sites, but I think it would be rather ignorant to assume that someone somewhere isn’t hard at work on the Human 2.0 project. What new features can we look forward to? What bugs will finally be fixed? And is there anything that can be done to actually…
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Copy Proof
In this article, I tackle the trendy subject of copyright infringement, and reveal my secret method for discouraging would-be image thieves.
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Sentences and Sensibility: Leica’s M (246) Pt. 2
This is ULTRAsomething’s second installment in the “Sensibility Series.” It features thousands of words, grouped into hundreds of sentences — a handful of which are actually about the topic it purports to discuss: the Leica M Monochrom (Type 246). I should also mention that it’s populated with over a dozen actual photos — and not…
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Sensors and Sensibility : The Leica M (246) Monochrom
What if Jane Austin had the opportunity to test and compare Leica’s new Type 246 M Monochrom camera against both the existing Monochrom and the M Type 240? Would her first published work have been a tale of romantic fiction? Or would it have been something closer to this?
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Yin Every Yang (Part 2)
Traveling to Iceland in the dead of winter? No problem. Traveling to Iceland carrying a backpack and a zoom lens? Now that’s culture shock.
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Yin Every Yang (Part 1)
In this world, there are things that motivate and things that demotivate. Curiously, what motivates one person might be exactly the same thing that demotivates someone else. Case in point: exotic vacations to scenic locales. For many people, such trips stimulate an outpouring of photographic activity. But for me, the only thing they stimulate is…
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Appropriating Cortini
Does a song need an evolving melody in order to be called a song? Or can something else evolve in its place? Composer and sound designer, Alessandro Cortini claims the latter. And it’s a claim I’ve just appropriated to help describe my latest photographic tendencies.
