Jeremiah Tolbert

One of the small mam­mal shots that I took today at Coyote Ridge open space here in Fort Collins. I really love the pos­ture of this prairie dog, and wish I had got­ten a lit­tle closer and shot it in por­trait. The rest of the shot doesn’t really add any­thing, I guess. It’s all a bit brown. I’m look­ing for­ward to spring like you wouldn’t believe.

I think the com­po­si­tion here is okay. The light­ing is just too plain. Some deeper shad­ows, maybe some lower angle light, would have gone far­ther to make this image more inter­est­ing. It’s also pos­si­ble that by try­ing to include the fence in the fore­ground, I forced my main sub­jected, the cabin, to recede into the back­ground too far. The cabin itself was really cool look­ing though.

If a greater waster of time has been invented than the social net­work­ing web­site, I don’t want to know about it–God, I’m los­ing enough time as it is.  Still, they serve their pur­poses and I thought it was about time that I post another “here’s where you can find me” entry with links to my var­i­ous pro­files.  Mostly because social net­work­ing is a game that you win by hav­ing a lot of friends and con­nec­tions, but also because I like to keep tabs on the peo­ple who keep tabs on me, and these sites make it easier.

Flickr

Flickr is my raw work feed for pho­tog­ra­phy.  I do some edit­ing down before work goes up there, but it’s not my port­fo­lio or any­thing.  If I think a photo is worth see­ing, it goes there.  If I still feel it is worth see­ing, I post it here too.  I always, always add con­tacts back on Flickr, so please feel free to add me.

Facebook

I’ve only recently begun to really get into Facebook.  I signed up for it rel­a­tively early on and was so inun­dated with were­wolf and vam­pire bites that I quickly dis­counted it as being good for any­thing other than wast­ing time.  However, as it achieves crit­i­cal mass even over the old beast of MySpace, more and more peo­ple are find­ing me there and using it as their pri­mary means of com­mu­ni­cat­ing with me.  Not that it was ever hard to find my web­site, but I guess nobody uses Google to find peo­ple any­more?  My profile’s sta­tus update is main­tained via Twitter, (see below) so I guess you could say I am now an active Facebook user.  And I try to look over other people’s lives about once a day there.  Just do me a favor and don’t send me any app requests.  I don’t want to install any of them.  No fish, no pup­pies, and no god damned vam­pire bites.   I don’t even like scrab­ble.  Yes, you may shun me now for the social net­work­ing pariah that I have become.

LinkedIn

Have we worked together in a semi-​​official capac­ity?  Link in to me. If not, I’d pre­fer you use the other ser­vices.  This is the only one of the net­works I try to keep “business-​​only.”  I’m pretty loose on what I define as “worked together” though.

Twitter

The only social net­work­ing app I resisted longer than Twitter was MySpace.  I had been aware of Twitter for a very long time, but I couldn’t see the point of it.  I had a blog.  I had an instant mes­sen­ger.  What good was it?  Then I started using my cell phone for some­thing other than mak­ing phone calls and it slowly clicked into place.  Now I spend more time talk­ing and shar­ing ideas on Twitter than I do on instant mes­sen­ger, which is just weird.  I always fol­low back any­one who fol­lows me, so please do fol­low me.

Boxee

Boxee is a social net­work­ing media player for your TV (assum­ing you have a com­puter hooked up for it).  It makes it a mil­lion times eas­ier to watch sites like Hulu in the liv­ing room instead of the office (assum­ing you have a com­puter in your liv­ing room, which I do).  Apple TV, Windows Media Center, you name it.  Boxee is cur­rently in alpha and runs on Ubuntu, Windows, and OSX.  It’s buggy as hell but I love it.  If you need an invi­ta­tion, let me know.

Delicious

Social book­mark­ing tool of the web stone age.  I never used it for the social aspects except in the sense that I fol­low a feed of what every­one else is book­mark­ing with it so that I can pick up on use­ful mate­ri­als.   But if you want to send me links and receive links from me, please feel free.

MySpace

I have a pro­file on MySpace solely for com­mu­ni­cat­ing with bands that I have pho­tographed or want to pho­to­graph.  I can’t stand the sight of that ugly site, so I try to use it as lit­tle as pos­si­ble.  If you can find me, you’re wel­come to friend me, but I am not going to ask any­one to do so.  I’d like to dis­cour­age use of the site as much as pos­si­ble.  Bad design needs to be pun­ished.  (And there go my chances of ever hav­ing a job with MySpace…)

This is a weird com­po­si­tion for me. I’m not sure if I can call it tra­di­tion­ally suc­cess­ful, but I do think it’s kind of pretty.

With HDR now, I am try­ing to pull back to some­thing much more real­is­tic. I was sad to learn while brows­ing books at B&N yes­ter­day that “real” land­scape pho­tog­ra­pher use medium for­mat cam­eras, and I can’t exactly afford a $20,000 dig­i­tal back for a $10,000 cam­era. So I guess I won’t be much of a real land­scape photographer.