| Information Resources | |
| Luminous Landscape | My primary site to follow advances in the digital darkroom especially with respect to papers and printers. This is also a fantastic site for photographic techniques as well as thoughts on photography. |
| Photoshop News | A great source of information about tools and techniques for the digital darkroom and what is happening with Photoshop and Lightroom. |
| PixelGenius | Another great source of information about tools and techniques for the digital darkroom. Their sharpening toolkit is a great addition to the tools I like to have at my disposal. |
| The Russell Brown Show | A funny and helpful site for advanced Photoshop techniques. |
| Eric Chan's Epson 3800 pages | A very informed site for using the Epson 3800. |
| Luminous Landscape Videos | These videos are a great value. I have both the Lightroom and Camera to Print series, and I refer back to Camera to Print, and LightRoom 2.0 series on a regular basis. |
| Supplies | |
| Atlex.com | Where I buy almost all the ink for my printers and quite a lot of the paper |
| Shades of Paper | Another great source of paper and source of information as well |
| InkJet Art | A good source of paper, especially sample packs, and generic color profiles and a custom profiling service. |
| Red River Paper | I use their 60lb Premium Matte for most of my cards. I am trying out their new glossy card stock, but it doesn't come in the 8.5 x 11 size I currently use for greeting cards. Red River is also a good source for boxes for the cards. |
| Clear Bags | The best source I've found for protective envelopes that I use on loose and matted prints as well as for my individual note and greeting cards. |
| Picture Frames Destination | A really good source for high quality framing components when I do the framing myself instead of relying upon Design Frames or Art & Frame here in Falls Church. |
| Argonaut Displays | I've purchased my card spinners from them. |
| Graphic Display Systems | I purchased my portable display racks from them. The system makes it easy to set up multiple configurations based upon the available space. |
| Tools | |
| PixelGenius' PhotKit Sharpener |
Their sharpening toolkit is a great addition to the tools I like to have at my disposal.
While LightRoom 2.3 includes a lot of the PixelGenius functionality, it's still nice to have those tools available in Photoshop when I need to do the heavy lifting. |
| Noise Ninja | PictureCode's Noise Ninja plugin is a great tool for bringing acceptable images out of pictures taken at high ISO, such as during indoor swim meets. |
| LR/Transporter |
Timothy Armes' LR/Transporter is the tool I use to export picture meta-data from Lightroom
into a form that I can load into this web site's database.
I have also played around with his LR/Enfuse and LR/Morgify plug-ins, but don't use them as an everyday part of my toolset. |
| Local Resources | |
| Stifel and Capra | I have a selection of framed and unframed prints in addition to my note and greeting cards at Theresa Stifel's shop at the corner of Little Falls and Broad Streets in Falls Church. |
| Design Frames | Mark Klostermyer at Design Frames has done a lot of custom framing work for me including many of the framed prints available for purchase. Remember to ask Mark for a discount when you take in one of my prints for a custom framing job. |
| Art and Frame of Falls Church | Tom Gittens of Art and Frame is another fine source of custom framing work. |
| Falls Church Arts | A local arts group in which I participate. |
| Other Web Sites | |
| PhotoLinks - The Photography Network | Information about other photographers, locally and in other areas. |
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US Naval Observatory
Moon and Sun Data |
Where I go to figure out moonrise and moonset or sunrise and sunset times for a specific day. |
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US Naval Observatory
Moon Phases |
Where I go to figure out the phase of the moon on a given date. |
| The Mount Washington Observatory | Great pictures in their photo gallery, and great views, when it's not in whiteout, from and of the summit of Mount Washington in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. |
Last Updated: 09/23/2008