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Ok, I’m pretty sure this template is for a TAP folio. I bought the folio a long time ago from a store that sells mostly TAP album stuff, but pretty much every company makes one similar to this. Either way, the center panel is 11.1″ wide by 13.2″ tall with a 2 image wing on each side for a total of 8 vertical 4×6 openings.

These 2 Photoshop files will allow you to insert images under the two included layers to do a mock up of the folio. I’m adding a sample album / folio section to my web site and didn’t like how they looked actually photographed so I made this to use for the online sample.
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Ok, this is pretty cool. The GorillaPod tripod will wrap around pretty much anything and hold your camera up. Sure, I probably wouldn’t put a full-sized camera on it, but the Joby website mentions a SLR and Pro version.

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In 1998 Frederic Bonn and Zoe Deleu found a few photographs on a street in Paris. The photographs were scanned and put online starting what would become a growing collection that as of today contains 572 images of nameless subjects.

I’ve lived in Houston for a little over 5 years and just heard about this park a few weeks ago. It’s near to the Memorial Park area, and is probably part of the same system. Odd feeling walking through the woods and hearing Houston traffic.

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With digital taking over film and major manufacturers either getting out of the camera business (Minolta), dropping all but 2 film cameras (Nikon), or “considering” dropping film cameras (Canon); CNet is showing a slide show of film cameras from the past.

Well, figure it’s time to drop auto moderation of all the comments. It’s just too much trouble going through 400+ comments to find the 3 that are from real people when Akismet does such a good job.

Ok, so it really wasn’t a rainstorm. But ‘flowers wet from the sprinkler’ just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

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Buy.com has 1gb Kingston CF cards for $29.95 after a $9 rebate. I didn’t know Kingston was even making CF cards, but they’re pretty good as making memory so it should at least be decent.

The creator of the SimpleViewer Flash applet - you’ve seen it even if you didn’t know what it was called - has created another great one called Auto Viewer. It displays images in linear series, much like a film strip. There is an example on his site.

This is an image from last year that I found while going back through my images. The color version was lacking, so I had skipped over it on first pass. But after converting to black & white, I found I really like the image.