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Featured Sunset - Advanced Image Gallery
Updated: Nov. 21, 2017, 5:36 p.m. Sunset is a full-featured image gallery, with several key features not found in any other Django app (and certainly not all within the same one).
Featured My Approach To Photography
Posted: Dec. 14, 2013, 12:49 a.m. Lately, as a result of a few of my photos getting an incredible amount of attention on 500px.com, I've been exploring the profiles of a large number of users there (I check out everyone who interacts with my photos). And, of the profiles in English...
Featured Camera Gear
Updated: Sept. 8, 2020, 9:34 p.m. I currently own, or previously owned, the following camera gear. Cameras and SLR Bodies Canon EOS 5D Mk2 Purchased in August 2011, and while it was a bit intimidating at first, I don't regret it at all. Jumping from high-end point-and-shoot all the...
Site Policies: Photography Licensing and Copyright
Updated: June 9, 2023, 3:25 p.m. Unless otherwise specified, all images hosted on this site, or from the domain cdn.fur.vc (which is the static content domain for this site), are copyrighted content, owned by Natasha L., with all rights reserved. This is specified in the IPTC metadata...
"Real Artists", and Professionals
Posted: Dec. 14, 2013, 3:23 a.m. I've ranted about this elsewhere, but I'm a firm believer that every artist, of every medium, must develop their own style and techniques, in their own time. It's perfectly fine to have influences, but if your reason for a creative or technique choice...
Photography Workflow
Posted: Dec. 12, 2013, 11:03 p.m. I tend to get a lot of questions about my post-processing workflow, which usually come up when I mention presets I've created to speed things up in Lightroom. Additionally, I've been seriously considering bringing in an assistant to help with my...
Trotcon 2012 Report
Posted: Aug. 4, 2012, 4:16 p.m. I don't usually write con reports anymore, but this is a special case, because I've never had such a great experience at a new con. Depending on your definition of a "con", this was somewhere between my 23rd and 35th con, ranging in size from under-100...
Tips For Convention Photography
Posted: May 26, 2012, 11:03 p.m. At geeky/nerdy conventions of all types and genres, two things will always be true: The number of photos taken at the con will exceed the number of attendees at the con by an order of magnitude. The number of photos taken that are worth looking at,...