Local Radio Tower – A landmark for years and vital to local Law Enforcement and Fire Radio coverage – Collapsed by vandals last night. Over a million dollars in damage. As anyone who has hiked up to this location – Its a heck of a hike

SAN RAMON, Calif. — Supporting wires holding up a large radio tower were cut, possibly with bolt cutters, causing it to collapse, authorities revealed early Tuesday. East Bay Regional Park District Police said they had been notified that a tower on Rocky Ridge, located west of San Ramon and Danville, had failed and collapsed early Monday morning. Officers responded to the scene and found that no injuries had occurred and that vandalism may have been involved in the incident. The 20-to-30 foot tower supports radio communications systems — 2-way, cellular, microwave links, ham radios — across the East Bay.Police were continuing to investigate the cause of tower's collapse. Anyone with information regarding the incident is urged to contact police at (510) 881-1833.  

Local Radio Tower – A landmark for years and vital to local Law Enforcement and Fire…

Local Radio Tower – A landmark for years and vital to local Law Enforcement and Fire Radio coverage – Collapsed by vandals last night. Over a million dollars in damage. As anyone who has hiked up to this location – Its a heck of a hike. SAN RAMON, Calif. — Supporting wires holding up a large radio tower were cut, possibly with bolt cutters, causing it to collapse, authorities revealed early Tuesday. East Bay Regional Park District Police said they had been notified that a tower on Rocky Ridge, located west of San Ramon and Danville, had failed and collapsed early Monday morning. Officers responded to the scene and found that no injuries had occurred and that vandalism may have been involved in the incident. The 20-to-30 foot tower supports radio communications systems — 2-way, cellular, microwave links, ham radios — across the East Bay.Police were continuing to investigate the cause of tower's collapse. Anyone with information regarding the incident is urged to contact police at (510) 881-1833. View this post on Google+

+Bay Photo Lab looks to have Acquired FOTOMOTO.com

Dear Fotomoto user, Thank you for your patience. Fotomoto has been acquired by Bay Photo and all systems are up and running! Bay Photo is one of the premier professional labs in the US and has been doing print fulfillment for Fotomoto since 2009. Headquartered in Scotts Valley California, Bay Photo is 300 people strong, has been in business for 40 years and operates out of a state of the art facility. Bay Photo is committed to providing the best products and finest customer service in the industry. Ahmad Kiarostami, the founder of Fotomoto, along with some key members from the original Fotomoto team, are on board to help stabilize and maintain the technology. Derek is back doing customer support. We know that many of you depended on Fotomoto. Bay Photo's acquisition was mainly to support your investment and interest in Fotomoto. We have an obligation to support the photographic community. All the best, Larry Abitbol President, Bay Photo —————————————————————————- +Frederick Van Johnson FYI for the show  

+Bay Photo Lab looks to have Acquired FOTOMOTO.com

+Bay Photo Lab looks to have Acquired FOTOMOTO.com Dear Fotomoto user,  Thank you for your patience. Fotomoto has been acquired by Bay Photo and all systems are up and running! Bay Photo is one of the premier professional labs in the US and has been doing print fulfillment for Fotomoto since 2009. Headquartered in Scotts Valley California, Bay Photo is 300 people strong, has been in business for 40 years and operates out of a state of the art facility. Bay Photo is committed to providing the best products and finest customer service in the industry.  Ahmad Kiarostami, the founder of Fotomoto, along with some key members from the original Fotomoto team, are on board to help stabilize and maintain the technology. Derek is back doing customer support.  We know that many of you depended on Fotomoto. Bay Photo's acquisition was mainly to support your investment and interest in Fotomoto. We have an obligation to support the photographic community.  All the best,  Larry Abitbol President, Bay Photo  —————————————————————————- +Frederick Van Johnson FYI for the show View this post on Google+

My suggestion for today – do not piss off Hackers

Krebs on Security has posted a new item. Over the past six months, "fans" of this Web site and its author have shown their affection in some curious ways. One called in a phony hostage situation that resulted in a dozen heavily armed police surrounding my home. Another opened a $20,000 new line of credit in my name. Others sent more than $1,000 in bogus PayPal donations from hacked accounts. Still more admirers paid my cable bill for the next three years using stolen credit cards. Malware authors haveeven used my name and likeness to peddle their wares. But the most recent attempt to embarrass and fluster this author easily takes the cake as the most elaborate: Earlier this month, the administrator of an exclusive cybercrime forum hatched and executed a plan to purchase heroin, have it mailed to my home, and then spoof a phone call from one of my neighbors alerting the local police. Thankfully, I had already established a presence on his forum and was able to monitor the scam in real time and alert my local police in advance of the delivery. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/07/mail-from-the-velvet-cybercrime-underground/ I will stick with sunsets as my hobby….  

My suggestion for today – do not piss off Hackers

Krebs on Security has posted a new item. Over the past six months, "fans" of this Web site and its author have shown their affection in some curious ways. One called in a phony hostage situation that resulted in a dozen heavily armed police surrounding my home. Another opened a $20,000 new line of credit in my name. Others sent more than $1,000 in bogus PayPal donations from hacked accounts. Still more admirers paid my cable bill for the next three years using stolen credit cards. Malware authors haveeven used my name and likeness to peddle their wares. But the most recent attempt to embarrass and fluster this author easily takes the cake as the most elaborate: Earlier this month, the administrator of an exclusive cybercrime forum hatched and executed a plan to purchase heroin, have it mailed to my home, and then spoof a phone call from one of my neighbors alerting the local police. Thankfully, I had already established a presence on his forum and was able to monitor the scam in real time and alert my local police in advance of the delivery. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/07/mail-from-the-velvet-cybercrime-underground/ I will stick with sunsets as my hobby…. View this post on Google+

Why do I have employees that I tell to do things only to find nothing has been done and then I need to do it? We will not mention the fact I have told people to do this for three weeks straight, and it took me all of an hour to get what they could not get done in three weeks done and organized

Hmmmmmmmmmm – I smell and ass chewing coming on… Hey managers and business owners out there.. How do you deal with employees that just do not get it? Do you motivate them with rewards or motivate them by taking away..? I do not have kids.. but this can sure feel like it… sadly I cannot smack my employees back into reality like I would my own kid…  

Why do I have employees that I tell to do things only to find nothing has been done…

Why do I have employees that I tell to do things only to find nothing has been done and then I need to do it? We will not mention the fact I have told people to do this for three weeks straight, and it took me all of an hour to get what they could not get done in three weeks done and organized… Hmmmmmmmmmm – I smell and ass chewing coming on… Hey managers and business owners out there.. How do you deal with employees that just do not get it? Do you motivate them with rewards or motivate them by taking away..? I do not have kids.. but this can sure feel like it… sadly I cannot smack my employees back into reality like I would my own kid…  View this post on Google+

When we have tools like we do now… does shooting RAW make you lazy

Is one of the things you say on a shoot – "I will fix it in post"? I sure know I have said it.. I said that once in front of a pro level friend of mine and he smacked me on the back of my head and said I will never become a pro with that mind set.. I have to say I think he is right… This is an example.. it is far from some artistic masterpiece, but its an example of taking a blah turd of an image and trying to polish the best I can with the tools I have to make it more interesting. What do you think? Is it worthy of keeping? Should I have thought more about exposure in the original image and less about post? This shot was from back in 2004 when I was just starting and now even an image that was shot years ago and I am not so proud of might have been turned into something much more interesting with little more than 3 filters and some photoshop tweaking. I am far from a pro with photoshop or a camera, but the options and almost limitless with RAW […]

When we have tools like we do now… does shooting RAW make you lazy

Is one of the things you say on a shoot – "I will fix it in post"? I sure know I have said it.. I said that once in front of a pro level friend of mine and he smacked me on the back of my head and said I will never become a pro with that mind set.. I have to say I think he is right… This is an example.. it is far from some artistic masterpiece, but its an example of taking a blah turd of an image and trying to polish the best I can with the tools I have to make it more interesting.  What do you think? Is it worthy of keeping? Should I have thought more about exposure in the original image and less about post? This shot was from back in 2004 when I was just starting and now even an image that was shot years ago and I am not so proud of might have been turned into something much more interesting with little more than 3 filters and some photoshop tweaking.  I am far from a pro with photoshop or a camera, but the options and almost limitless with RAW […]

And this sums me up for today – Clearly I need to find a new job

And this sums me up for today – Clearly I need to find a new job….  

And this sums me up for today – Clearly I need to find a new job….

And this sums me up for today – Clearly I need to find a new job…. This post has been reshared 2 times on Google+ View this post on Google+

And the clouds are going away just as the sun goes down :-( 

And the clouds are going away just as the sun goes down 🙁  View this post on Google+

I've shared this once before a couple months ago, but really botched the settings on the share so I had to take it down. I recently reprocessed it, so I figured I'd get it back out there!!

I would say this fellow photographer +Jesse Summers should have a few more followers than 937….. Some really nice work…. Originally shared by +Jesse Summers I've shared this once before a couple months ago, but really botched the settings on the share so I had to take it down. I recently reprocessed it, so I figured I'd get it back out there!! This is Palouse Falls State Park, in Eastern Washington. I took this merged panorama on the side of a cliff overlooking the falls. Thanks for looking, and feel free to reach out if you have any technical questions on this one!!  

I would say this fellow photographer +Jesse Summers should have a few more followers…

I would say this fellow photographer +Jesse Summers should have a few more followers than 937….. Some really nice work…. Reshared post from +Jesse Summers I've shared this once before a couple months ago, but really botched the settings on the share so I had to take it down.  I recently reprocessed it, so I figured I'd get it back out there!! This is Palouse Falls State Park, in Eastern Washington.  I took this merged panorama on the side of a cliff overlooking the falls.  Thanks for looking, and feel free to reach out if you have any technical questions on this one!! This post has been reshared 2 times on Google+ View this post on Google+

Can I post this full frontal breast photo?

Best set of breasts I have seen in awhile… Hopefully it will not get reported.. 🙂