Profile Photo

I just had one of my portraits added to a website. It is of EWU Music Professor Michael Waldrop. He teaches percussion here at the University and is a very interesting and thoughtful person. He called me because his current portrait was outdated and he need a new look. I shot it with Norman strobes through Chimera soft boxes. I shot it with a Nikkor 85mm f 1:1.4 lens wide open to give a narrow depth of field. It is much better than his previous version.

Flickr Banners

After searching for universities with flickr accounts in an effort to see how other institutions use this resource I found a few that were doing interesting things with web implementation. The University of Charleston uses flickr to feed a flash banner on their homepage. The images used can be found in their set here.



New Jersey Institute of Technology uses a similar approach feeding a rotating web banner on their homepage with images pulled from flickr here.

It makes total sense to use flickr in this way. Edits to the banner don't have to involve touching the code, simply update the flickr set that the banner is pulled from. Cloud computing is evolving into a new method of content control. Also the update to content is instantaneous. Our current web server takes over an hour to update a web page, with flickr as soon as the content is updated in the set you simply refresh and the content is posted to the web page.

Definitely Worse Than My Bark

Here is a photo I snapped during a recent photo shoot at one of EWU's Summer Dental Camps. It is a mounted in the dental chair and is used to educate students on proper use and technique of dental instruments. I think these things bleed less than the human equivalent. The bokeh, the greenish tint and the polished shine of the gums make for an interesting photo.