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My food photography is hot this week

mykl — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:50:12 +0000

Not sure what to make of this but my food photos are popping up in some cool places online this week.

Huffington Post (3 of my MN State Fair shots made the slideshow)

My 30 Days of Creativity Project for 2011

mykl — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:39:11 +0000

My typography-signage-photography-quote-mashup project for this year’s 30 Days of Creativity is complete. I’m already starting to think about what I’ll do next year.

Happy Pi Day 2010!

mykl — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:44:28 +0000

My photo homage to Pi Day from last year.

“Pi, Greek letter (π), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi = 3.1415926535… Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th.” Read more at piday.org

Want even more pi? Check out the Pi Day Flickr group.

The year in pictures – my 365 Project

mykl — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:32:26 +0000

I finished my 365 Project on January 1, 2010. I took a photo a day for a year. It was probably one of most frustrating yet rewarding things I’ve ever done. Some of my favorites are featured in the video (made with Animoto) below.

I did a similar video for my first 100 days.

I was honored to be congratulated in a post on the 365 Community Blog by my favorite photographer, Meshl.

You can see the entire project as a slideshow below or as a set on Flickr.

The world’s largest roadside attractions – sort of

mykl — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:17:09 +0000

The New York Daily News web site recently ran a photo gallery featured a bunch (35 of 50) of my Flickr photos. They didn’t do much reasearch apparently, as many of the items they included are not actually the world’s largest. However it was fun to see some interest being paid to these roadside giants.

For even more huge-ness, I have a number of other Flickr photo sets devoted to roadside attractions:

Big Things – Chronicling decades of family road trips to capture these fiberglass marvels.
World’s Biggest – A more “officially” sanctioned collection of roadside giants
World’s Largest Twine Ball – The centerpiece of Darwin, Minnesota
F.A.S.T Corp. – Makers of Big Things – Fiberglass Animals, Shapes & Trademarks Corp., or simply FAST, has been creating roadside titans since 1983. Their headquarters in Sparta, Wisconsin features acres of fiberglass molds and statues in various stages of completion.
Paul Bunyan Land – Located in Brainerd, Minnesota and home to the Worlds Largest Talking animated Man.

Flickr and Twitter sittin’ in a tree

mykl — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:58:24 +0000

Two of my favorite social neworks are now closer than ever before. Flickr2Twitter was announced today and I couldn’t be more excited.

While I’ve been a fan of Twitter photo sharing services like TwitPic, I’ve never liked the quality of most phone cameras. Being able to share these fuzzy, lower resultion images with the world wasn’t that appealing to me. Flickr2Twitter has this function too of course. However, it’s the ability to post photos directly from Flickr to Twitter with the virtual press of a button that I find most appealing.

Setup is quick and painless. Once complete, you simply click the “blog this” button above your photos. You even get the option to edit the content of the tweet. The link uses Flickr’s own URL shortener.

I think this is useful and smart addition to the Flickr experience. I’d love to hear about other people’s experience and opinions of this new feature.

100 days, 100 photos

mykl — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:42:20 +0000

I hit the century mark on my 365 Project on Flickr yesterday. I made this little video to celebrate.

The goal of the project is to take one photo a day for a year. I added another layer of complexity early on by promising myself that I had to actually like each day’s official photo. It’s been quite a challenge, but incredibly fulfilling at the same time. Inspired by the impressive work of those who came before me, and the supportive community that has developed around the project, I’ve had plenty of support. I’d highly recommend it to anyone interested in stretching their photographic muscles.

I used Animoto to make the video. Podsafe music: Fuzzy Peach by Monkeybacon