Photographer Mary Ellen Mark at the Easter Parade on 5th Avenue in NYC. April 3, 2010. (Photo Mike Peters) I’m surprised by how much I’ve been affected by the recent passing of Mary Ellen Mark. She always seemed sincere, dedicated and real somehow. She is one of my favorite photographers.

Mike Johnston: The other day I was driving north on US23 towards Ann Arbor and home. On the right a large billboard flashed by advertising CameraMall, a new camera store in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan. I blinked my eyes, turned down the music, and thought that perhaps I had just hallucinated. A new camera store in Ann Arbor? No way! Yesterday I parked my car and walked up Washington Street, behind the legendary Michigan Theater, and, sure enough, there it was—a camera store.

You just found that DVD you had in that drawer you couldn’t remember which one it was. Along with 9 old cell phones that no longer will work with today’s new technology. Your 3 inch by 3 inch cube computer no longer has a DVD drive since in 2015 they were totally phased out. Your 3rd grandchild is sitting on your knee and asks to see pictures of their Mom- and all you have to show them is this piece of round plastic that is pretty much worthless.

I’ve been uploading photos to Flickr since 2004. It’s always been my favorite way to share images, even during its dark years when things languished for way too long. Flickr offers unlimited storage, so I’ve always wanted to upload everything there, but I haven’t. The reason is that the Photostream displays all of my photos (public and private) when I’m logged in, with no easy way of viewing it as other people see it.

I love ConnectedText but have been struggling with using it via Parallels on my Mac. Everything works fine, but requires many moving parts in order to make it something I can live in. It was suggested1 that I try running things via Crossover so I did and have been surprised by how well it works. It’s too soon to tell if the experience with Crossover will be good enough, but early signs are encouraging.

That didn’t go well. This was my first time using the R3 Monobath Developer from New55. Other people have great results with it but I’ve obviously done something wrong. The image above is a scanned 4×5 negative (HP5+) shot using an ancient Crown Graphic. Many things can fail when shooting large format film that I’m certainly not ready to blame the developer. I’ve never seen this sort of ghosting effect before so it’ll be fun tracking down what went wrong.

A Primer on Fountain Pens | The Art of Manliness: Taking a break from click-clacking away at one’s keyboard to write something out by hand — a thank you note, a journal entry, a page of copywork — is a uniquely pleasurable activity. It certainly is.

I was cleaning out a closet and found my bag of unused Olympus gear. I couldn’t remember why it was unused so I grabbed one of the OM-2n bodies with a “silver nose” Zuiko 85mm f/2.0 and shot a roll of Tri-X. I’ve found the 85 to be a bit prone to flare. Like this… Demonstration of flare with Zuiko 85mm f/2.0. Leeloo (2015) Generally, though, I still like the OM-2n.

Om Malik interviews Brunello Cucinelli You must believe in the human being, because the creativity of a company — Let’s say you have a company with 1,000 people. Maybe we were told that there are only two or three genius people in the 1,000. But I think that if you have 1,000 people, you have 1,000 geniuses. They’re just different kinds of genius and a different degree of intensity.

Steve Zeoli on outlining in Tinderbox: I was going to end this overview by saying that Tinderbox is not the world’s best Mac outliner. But I’ve changed my mind. I think it is the best, when you consider all it has to offer Tinderbox is great at many things, and outlining is one of them.  

Justin Blanton With the physical devices, the thing that still really irks me is that it insists on showing the percentage of the book completed I had the same complaint about the Kindle — now fixed.  

Chris Bowler: As mentioned above, I use a collection of tools to get content published to my flat file Kirby install on my Media Temple server. The full list (Via chrisbowler.com) Chris describes what looks to be a cool and technically fascinating workflow for publishing to his blog (which I enjoy reading). The problem I see is that the number of moving parts seems to be getting out of hand.