Tag Archives: gadgets and technology

happy buddha grape! the blog returns!

Posted on December 10, 2019 by Pam Bliss

The blog reappears to say we are sorry there has not been a blog and try to explain why.  The reason there has not been a blog is because we have had Technical Difficulties.  So many Technical Difficulties.  You do … Continue reading →

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scary apples

Posted on November 22, 2019 by Pam Bliss

I’ve made up my mind.  I’m going to buy an iPad and install Procreate on it and use an Apple Pencil to draw some little doodle comics. I’m not planning to replace my natural media cartooning– I bleed wet ink … Continue reading →

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thaw/fog

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Pam Bliss

The pattern of freeze and thaw as Midwestern winter is (slowly) ending yields a particular beauty made of old snow, bare trees, puddles and fog. A while ago, I got a new iPod Touch and loaded onto it the latest … Continue reading →

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kap and cap

Posted on December 7, 2017 by Pam Bliss

What’s this when it’s at home, then? The bold white title on the tall prism housing says it all: it’s a current Pentax DSLR.  This one is a KP, compact, 24 mp crop sensor, designed to get the best out … Continue reading →

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meet the monolith

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Pam Bliss

I honestly don’t know what to do with myself after having spent the last 12 days enjoying an absorbing new hobby called “checking the Royal Mail package tracking website five times a day trying to figure out when my important … Continue reading →

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three important objects

Posted on September 19, 2017 by Pam Bliss

I post a lot of photography here, and I thought at least some of you might be interested in seeing three of my motley collection of (mostly secondhand) cameras.  I recently bought some neoprene “Hood Hats” from Op/Tech to replace … Continue reading →

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distraction: a toy camera

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Pam Bliss

Every photographer should have a toy camera.  The combination of a low fi plastic lens, minimal controls, and no way to review the images on the spot means there’s nothing much to do except see potential photographs in the scenes … Continue reading →

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me

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Pam Bliss

Any self portrait I make in any medium is likely to be cryptic and symbolic in the extreme. Selfies are not my thing.  I am not my favorite photographic subject. The best thing about being behind the camera is never … Continue reading →

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this is not a picture of detroit, michigan

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Pam Bliss

It happened again for the second year in a row.  I was in Chicago (Illinois) for the Chicago Auto Show today, and I took this particular picture with my smartphone.  It’s a perfectly conventional view of the Buick show stand, as … Continue reading →

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festive wreaths and fences

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Pam Bliss

If you, like me, wanted to continue your search for some festive feelings in a series of toy camera photographs of holiday stuff in stores and other public places, you better have gone to Menards before the 12th of December. … Continue reading →

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