Monthly Archives: June 2010

A fresh perspective

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Jim

Hartnell College, in Salinas, has a large, airy gallery. About five years ago I had an exhibition of the farm workers series there. In December of last year I boxed up about 80 C-size loose prints from the Nighthawks series … Continue reading →

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Celebrating the medium

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Jim

People file out their negative holders so that the borders of the images show product codes, frame numbers, directional arrows, (even sprocket holes on 35mm film); the two little Hasselblad tick marks; and shadows of the hold-down strips on four … Continue reading →

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Computers: can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Jim

It’s been a big month for messing with computers, and writing about computers. I’m anxious to get back to photography, and I promise to do so in my next post, but today I’d like to ramble on a little bit … Continue reading →

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New PC apps

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Jim

In the last month, I’ve been testing new versions of my main Windows apps. I’ve been working with the shipping version of Office 2010, which will be released to the general public next week. I’ve also tested the Photoshop, InDesign, … Continue reading →

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Setting up new computers

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Jim

In the past couple of weeks, I set up three workstations: a desktop running Windows 7, a Lenovo X201 laptop that came with Windows 7, and a Lenovo X300 laptop whose 64 GB solid state disk I had upgraded to … Continue reading →

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