Nikon Just Announced My Dream Wildlife Lens
It has been a while since I wrote anything about camera gear. Finally some interesting camera gear to write about!
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Ideas, field notes & long game thinking.
Thoughts on photography, business, AI and building. No noise. Just what I'm learning along the way.
I Was Going to Buy the 512GB Mac Studio M5 Ultra. Not Anymore!
I've written in several previous posts that when Apple released the Mac Studio M5 Ultra with 512GB of unified memory, I would upgrade from my current M3 Ultra…
I Should Know Myself Better.
This morning I ended my post about the iPhone Duo with, “I shouldn’t be coding this weekend, but we’ll see how that works out.” Here I am about nine hours…
I Bought the Duo.
Around two weeks ago, I wrote that I was probably buying the iPhone Duo. It was released yesterday, and I managed to get one on release day. I picked it up in…
I’m starting to look for problems
This afternoon my wife called me from Mana Pools. She has my Sony A1 II with her and needed some help with the settings. Sure, no problem. But guiding her…
Eight Leopards in Six Nights
I've been to Africa quite a few times by now. Three times this year alone. And yet, for some reason, the leopard has always managed to elude me. Sure, I've…
I Hope I Never Start Asking "What's the Point?"
On Thursday, Tesla demonstrated its new Roadster. A prototype drove upside down on a curved ramp, launched itself into the air, performed a flip using…
I Walked the Dog. Then I Preordered a Tesla Roadster.
I woke up this morning, walked the dog, came home and sat down with a hot cup of coffee. Opened X to see if anything interesting had happened overnight. I'd…
I May Actually Replace Lightroom. So Now I'm Building My Own AI Denoise.
When I started building what eventually became FocusRAW Pro, I wasn't entirely sure how far I would take it. The whole thing started with an offloading problem…
My Wife Had One Rule About Lingerie Photography
I've been sourcing products from China for about ten years now. One category we never really got into was lingerie, which is slightly strange because I've…
We Still Have Adobe Stock. We Just Don't Use It Much Anymore.
The news this week about Getty Images preparing for bankruptcy restructuring made me think about how little we use stock photography in our e-commerce business…
I Sold My Adobe Shares. Now I'm Building My Own Lightroom.
In June, I bought Adobe shares. The stock had taken quite a beating, and I got in at around $209. I simply thought it had fallen too far. At the end of July, I…
I Didn't Buy the Three-Fold. I'm Probably Buying the Duo.
Last year in Shenzhen (last week in October, almost a year ago), dinner with a couple of friends and two of the factory owners. One of them is probably worse…
She Thought It Was Another Hard Drive
My Wife Thinks I Bought Another Hard Drive My wife walked past the desk this morning, noticed the latest addition and said "oh you bought another hard drive"…
The Week the Labs Asked Us to Slow Down
Last weekend I put on Terminator 2 again. Same thought that had been sitting with me all week while I read about labs and agents and “pacing the frontier.” Me…
Why I keep going back to Zimanga
“Everything has already been photographed.” “Why keep going to the same places everyone else already went to? Find your own.” How many times have we heard…
AMDs Threadripper Halo Station
AMD’s Threadripper Halo Station and NVIDIA’s DGX Station just showed up next to the Mac Studio M5 Ultra decision. A side-by-side on memory, bandwidth, power, and price for anyone weighing a personal supercomputer this year.
The Paperwork Is the Product
Running companies inside the EU means living under a permanent drizzle of new rules.
Why I Signed to Buy Quartr Shares
Quartr is not a secret. ARR at the end of Q2 2026 was 158 MSEK, more than double year-over-year. Retention looks healthy. The customer list is good. Altos…
