Tag Archive: creativity

Photo: Vegetarianism

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-10-07T02:33:39Z in Photography, Portraits, with these tags: b&w, canon rebel xti, conceptual, creativity, ef 50mm 1:1.4, food, fun, humor, light bulbs, sarah 3, vegetarianism, 1 Comment. 93 words.

Vegetarianism

Sarah (another Sarah) pretending to eat a blue light bulb. No animals were involved in the creation of that light bulb. The light bulb is a perfect vegetarian snack.

You can’t see that the light bulb is blue, because I converted this to black and white. It makes more sense that way.

Sarah has some nice teeth. Eating a light bulb is probably a bad idea, at least as far as her teeth are concerned.

If you want to be more like Sarah, read Becoming a Vegetarian.

Canon Rebel XTi, EF 50mm 1:1.4, 1/160, F3.5, 50mm, ISO100, 2008-10-01T15:55:18-04, 20081001-195518rxt

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Personal Development for Photographers

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-09-26T11:30:08Z in Personal Development, Photography Articles, with these tags: courage, creativity, editing, fear, freedom, goals, life, photographers, realism, skill, 4 Comments. 2,963 words.

Personal development is universal, so it includes photographers. A lot of photographers are stuck in a lot of ways. They take too many photos, entangle their intuition with technicalities, refuse to rise above spectatorship, or abandon their creativity for the comfort of rigid rules. I did all these for some time, so I want to help others rise above these limitations.

Too many photos

Most photographers live with a scarcity mindset. This means they believe they must be taking photos every moment, in case they miss the ‘perfect’ moment. There is only one ‘perfect’ moment (scarcity), so it’s important not to miss …

How to Create a Public Library

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-26T03:33:47Z in Library Science, with these tags: barcoding, computer science, computers, creativity, internet, librarianship, new, openbiblio, php, programming, 1 Comment. 5,613 words.

I’ve disappeared for the last few days because I’ve been working on The Thripp Public Library. While I can’t open it to the public yet (Dad won’t open our house to the world), I’m working on it now because I have time off and Dad’s generously donated lots of his books. Though I wanted to use Evergreen or Koha, I picked the simple and obscure OpenBiblio as my library system, because it’s the only thing I could find that would run on shared hosting. I was disappointed by the lack of features to start, but I’m starting …