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Just spent a fair chunk of cash to subscribe for McAfee Secure (you should see it on home page unless something is wrong and I haven’t fixed it). They really did go through the server meticulously and found a bunch of low-level issues.  The reason I decided to do this expenditure, was that I was looking at the site through Google Analytics – the overlay – and noticed that the most clicked on thing was [more]

Notes about my memoir on Pixiq. Dear Lester, I hope you don’t mind, but the next post is going to take us into the Flushing year.  If you’d rather I make up another name for you – let me know.  I don’t think that I’m going to write anything about you that you’d be ashamed of, except the obvious things that everyone who knows you is aware of.  I suppose the idea of doing a [more]

Prologue and after log: btw, since we all love talking about that next magic camera – I actually don’t want a rangefinder. It may have come off like this was the camera I was drooling on, or after.  But not really. First off – I’m happy with the Canon T1i. However… there’s always an however isn’t there? The camera that interests me is the Canon 60D (with some caveats). [Before I forget - there's a [more]

Today’s blog post is at Pixiq Frankly, if I were you – for now what I’d do is switch my bookmark to: http://www.pixiq.com/contributors/beckerman And if you want to use their RSS feed for me, here’s that: http://www.pixiq.com/contributors/beckerman/rss.xml I expect to be putting most of my writing effort into that site for a while, just to see what happens (man I’ve written that a lot).  But writing in two places is pretty crazy esp. since I [more]

I’ll have to figure this out… but just so you know, today’s post is at: http://www.pixiq.com/article/the-web-sale-from-hell It’s about some of the more common stuff that happens to you while selling prints on the web.  I know it’s sort of crazy to post the same thing in two places. I want to see what some of the other Pixiq contributors are doing; and/or can I divide the blogs up somehow?

I was hired recently to be a correspondent for a new photography site, www.Pixiq.com which is still in Beta.  I’ll be writing in both places, and not necessarily the same thing, though to start things off I’ll be pulling the “best of Beckerman” to put on the Pixiq site. My Pixiq writing will be at: http://www.pixiq.com/contributors/beckerman Yes, it’s true, I can’t go into how much I’ll be paid but I can tell you that it’s [more]

I mentioned that I’m planning to go to the John Prine concert on Governor’s Island, and that it is stated in the rules that no professional equipment will be allowed. What are considered professional cameras and professional digital cameras? Any camera with a removable lens will be considered a professional camera and will not be allowed inside the venues during performances. It’s all sort of funny to me.  There are lots of digital cameras without [more]

I woke up this morning all set to really blast into the day and get the last three orders matted and packaged today.  Then I could have the next few days to work on a few other projects that are floating around.  One I’ll just call project x for now; another one is a small film I’m trying to make in iMovie about street shooting; and when I say small, I should say short.  But [more]

The UPS guy showed up this morning with a flat envelope.  I couldn’t figure out what it was, I have so many things going back and forth with UPS and Fedex and so I just opened it up and there was a coupon for a woman’s hair product.  Now why would someone spend the money to UPS me a woman’s coupon?  It’s true, that there’s one bunch that believes I’m a dermatologist, and I continuously [more]

Stuff happens in threes.  Every scientist knows that.  So the second thing that’s been happening today: I was getting many requests from potential customers who wanted to just view horizontal images at one time because they would go together better than mixing horizontal and vertical pictures.  So, this was easy enough, and I tagged the images as either horizontal or vertical, and put links in the store so you could view all the horizontals, or [more]