New England BMX Photo Archive
Browse old photos from the New England BMX scene
Peace Japan!
For last year’s project 365 I used an iPhone app called My365. It’s made by a Japanese company, and as a result there a lot of Asian users. In many of the photos, people flash the peace sign in addition to (or instead of) smiling at the camera. I find it somewhat bizarre, and I …
Mobile-Only Instagram Photos, Please!
I haven’t been using Instagram much over the past few months, as my square iPhone photos have been going into my daily My365 app for my photo-a-day project. And after the recent terms of service fiasco, I may switch from Instagram back to Flickr for 2013 anyway. But still, I need to rant about one …
iPhone & GorillaPod & BMX bike
I’ve been wanting to do a quick video of what tricks I can still do, but shoot and edit it entirely on my iPhone. The first problem was finding a good iPhone tripod mount: there are a lot out there, but most require you to either take your iPhone out of its case or to …
Project 365
I’ve been wanting to do a project 365 (taking a photo every day) for the past few years, but I just couldn’t follow though. I just never had my camera with me at all times, and I wouldn’t even get through January. There was also the issue of trying to take a great photo every …
Don’t Film Police At Work
This On Point podcast really got me upset: Turn Off That Camera! Filming The Police At Work Dashboard cams in police cars are ubiquitous. Yet police are pushing back against Americans capturing them at work on cell phone cameras. Arresting people filming arrests. Is that right? I understand that police wouldn’t want to be videotaped …
Happy Photo Accidents
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from photography, is that you don’t always know what your best shot will be. Sometimes I spend a lot of time planning and setting up a photo, shooting multiple photos from various vantage points, only to be disappointed by every one of them. Then other times I’ll shoot a …
HDR Photography
I’ve never really been a fan of HDR images. There are a lot of examples on Flickr; some really boost the colors to near-cartoon levels, and others push their photos to a have a more dreamlike look. While many are interesting, I don’t want that look for my photos, so I decided I didn’t like …
2009 in Photos
Boston.com’s The Big Picture published their three-part Year in Photos of amazing and moving shots: part 1, part 2, part 3.
Hollister Thomas Photography
A new site I built is now live: Hollister Thomas Photography. The original designer sort of disappeared so I took his initial rough design, finished the details, and built the site. It was a lot of fun to do, especially adding the Lightbox 2.0 slideshow and the page load/fade-in code (which I needed to do …