Michael R. Barrick's blog
Fri, 2014/04/11 - 3:15pm
Once again I am (hopelessly) in the running for the Vancouver Nightlife Awards. I got the e-mail that voting had opened and too a look to see who was in the running this year for the photographers and was actually surprised to see my name. No one said, "boo" to me this year about it, I don't even know who nominated me this time. Nonetheless, there I am.
Tue, 2014/04/08 - 5:21pm
I was working on a scan I made from a large-format 8" x 10" positive today and it got me to thinking about the "resolution" of large-format film. Depending on the grain of the film an 8" x 10" negative/positive original has a "native resolution" of somewhere between three and seven GIGA-pixels, in rough terms. Food for thought...
Sun, 2014/03/23 - 4:09pm
A short lesson in why freaking out about a "chemical" because it is "derived from" something nasty (or nasty-sounding) or is "similar to" some other chemical, or contains an element or component that would be nasty in some other compound is completely meaningless.
Sun, 2014/03/02 - 1:46pm
In this tiny park in Nanaimo, which is actually the site of Nanaimo's original cemetery and called "Nanaimo Pioneer Cemetary Park", is the only grave on Canadian soil of a casualty of the Crimean War of 1854-56. The didactic plaque embedded into the wall reads...
Sat, 2014/03/01 - 11:00am
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