Paul Jacobson

Category: Photography

  • Seeing the stars from the International Space Station

    This is a striking view from the ISS. Two things stand out for me. The first is how many more stars you can see from space and the second is that bubble around our planet, out atmosphere.

  • How to upload 80GB in a day with the help of a friendly ISP

    I have a lot of photos I have been backing up to the cloud for a long time. I use a few services to backup my essential data: Dropbox for all my documents (I upgraded to a 50GB account this year); I use Picasa to backup photo albums as I go (I upgraded my Google…

  • Awesome sunflower photo

    I love great sunflower photos and always seem to be on the wrong side of the highway when driving past a sunflower field with my camera. I came across this photo after linking to Nick van der Leek’s Flickr photo stream and I love it: I feel a strong need to take loads of photos…

  • My iPhone likes this sunflower

    I upgraded to an iPhone 4s yesterday (my iPhone 4 home button responds to 1 out of 3 or 4 presses). I haven’t compared photos between the 2 phones (plenty comparisons on the Web already) but this sunflower looks pretty good. The darker photo is as the camera captured the image. The slightly lighter one…

  • Beluga #fail

    I think I have been to the Beluga restaurant once. I had lunch there during a trip to Cape Town a couple years ago and when I have thought about fancy places to visit during future trips, it has tended to pop up in my mind as a possibility. That won’t be happening anymore (not…

  • Pick up the camera and go

    What a week so far. I really feel like taking my camera out for the day tomorrow and taking photos! I have far too much work right now but the urge is strong.

  • Big Brother is watching the yoghurt

    I came across this funny conversation via post-it note on a client’s fridge the other day:

  • Great tips for newbie photographers

    I just read Simon Dingle’s terrific post titled “Choosing a first DSLR” and it is definitely worth reading if you are thinking about buying your first DSLR camera. I sort of went through this process in December when I decided to splurge on a DSLR after years with Canon point and shoot cameras and my…