One camera that I keep by the front door – and one that I failed to mention in my camera lineage a few months ago – is the Olympus E-PM1, also known as the Pen Mini. It originally came out in 2011, but I picked up a used copy for around $100 back in 2014. […]
It’s Friday as I post this, so as you think about the weekend, here’s a song to start it off with the right frame of mind…
Several years ago when I was still living in the land of Windows, I joined a Microsoft program called TechNet. At the time it was a program for IT professionals (and other geeks) to try out installations of different Microsoft operating systems and applications. Members could download full versions of various operating systems (Windows 7 […]
It doesn’t take reading many headlines to get the sense that darkness, confusion, and hopelessness seem to be on the rise in our culture. The signs are pretty much everywhere – ever-rising vitriol and outrage online, rising rates of gender dysphoria, drug addiction, increased incidences of suicide, and, most recently, the awful shootings in El […]
Some “Cliff’s notes” from a book I’m currently reading: We need to speak in ways that free our listeners from a secular social imaginary, where the words “authority” and “obedience” suggest a way of living that is either outmoded or oppressive. What we need to communicate is that in following Jesus, disciples leave their bondage […]
It had been 8 years or so, but I went out with my old Olympus E-300 just to spend time with an old photographic friend. Originally released in 2004 (I got a refurbished one in 2006), it’s a pretty basic DSLR – no live view, no in-camera art filters, no in-body image stabilization. But was […]