Embrace Risk or Flounder in Mediocrity

Embrace Risk or Flounder in Mediocrity

One of the perks of my day job is being able to get into events that I would never be invited to. Case in point: Last night, I witnessed James Cameron’s keynote speech at a gathering of contract pharmaceutical manufacturers at the Waldorf Astoria. There I sat,...
Things Could Always Be Worse

Things Could Always Be Worse

I had a pretty awful day today. Around noon, I ran downstairs and found out that my new neighbor had side swapped my beloved Ford Focus with her rented Penske moving truck. The damage could have been worse, but the truck did hit my driver-side tire, which jutted out...
New Year, New Web Site

New Year, New Web Site

As some of you might have already noticed, GLKcreative.com recently received a spiffy new face lift courtesy of the guys and gals at BluDomain. I’ve spent years searching and trying to build the perfect Web interface using everything from Dreamweaver to...
Photography is Not a Crime

Photography is Not a Crime

Just because a person is standing on a crowded city street taking photographs doesn’t mean that he or she is a terrorist. But that doesn’t stop police from hassling photographers daily in some of the biggest cities. Boing Boing just posted an interesting...
Julius Shulman 1910–2009

Julius Shulman 1910–2009

Image by medienfrech via Flickr The photo world just lost one of its masters. According to the Los Angeles Times, photographer Julius Shulman died yesterday from being really freaking old. Shulman is best known for his architecture photography. I look at a room or a...
Photo of the Day: 5/26/2009

Photo of the Day: 5/26/2009

I shot this photograph from the East Martello watch tower as I was making my way down the tiny, winding staircase. I love Key West, and would move there in a second if I could find a steady gig. Between the museums, beaches, and stunning sunsets, I think I could keep...

Short Video About Centralia, PA

I decided to see how good the Canon G9 is at shooting video during a recent trip to Centralia, PA. For those that don’t know, Centralia is a city that lit an underground coal mine ablaze during a routine garbage burning. Many decades later, almost everyone has...

Getty to Sell Flickr Images

So Flickr made a pact with the devil. That’s what a ton of people in the blogosphere are saying about the photo networking site’s recent deal with Getty that will allow the stock giant access to Flickr photos. From what I understand, Getty will hand select...
Travelin’ Everywhere

Travelin’ Everywhere

8020, the user-generated publishing company that put JPG Magazine on the map, has branched out and released a new rag devoted to travel. To separate itself from the hundreds of poorly written (and mostly advertorial) travel mags littering Borders, Everywhere offers...