Category Archives: photography

posts about photos I’ve added to my Flickr account

Help solve the mystery of the stainless steel inner tube thing

Posted on Friday, September 17, 2010 by Rex Hammock

[See note at the end of this post.] During a vacation in Maine last week (the vacation photos are here, but it now seems like a month ago), I saw a stainless steel inner tube-like thing (if you’re reading this … Continue reading →

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The AP photo that BP hoped would never appear

Posted on Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Rex Hammock

Link: Boston.com I predict this AP photo by Charlie Riedel will win a Pulitzer. It is one of those images you will remember forever — it is that searing. Despite me being a teenager at the time, I can still … Continue reading →

Posted in observation, photography | 4 Comments

Get your news from print: the recyclable medium. It’s like being a content vegan.

Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 by Rex Hammock

I feel certain that after you read this PDF from the Congressional Research Service about the global e-waste crisis, you’ll join with me in starting a worldwide movement to encourage people to stop consuming content from e-waste producing devices (that … Continue reading →

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Flickr now lets anyone be a gallery curator

Posted on Thursday, October 1, 2009 by Rex Hammock

Flickr has long had a feature called “sets” that allows a user to organize groupings of photos in any way the photographer wants to share them. Flickr recently added another feature that, at first, seems to be the same thing … Continue reading →

Posted in flickr, Nashville, photography | Tagged | 1 Comment

Online, in print — it’s all about capturing, sharing and preserving the story

Posted on Saturday, September 26, 2009 by Rex Hammock

Boston.com’s “Big Picture” collection of moving photography of flooding from the southeast makes me think there’s an instant magazine in there somewhere (see yesterday’s post). Tweet Related posts: rexblog nano The Tumblr-fication of Google Reader While I’m traveling, think of … Continue reading →

Posted in media, photography | 3 Comments