Googling through your past?

The internet has had a profound effect on the way our lives are chronicled and how we interact with family, friends and associates. For instance, Facebook allows one to catch up with long lost friends, and even those you really don't want to remember. A photo you post on a website is indexed in perpetuity, thanks to Google. While my generation's memories and the footprint of our lives are still predominately "analog", with photos and artifacts scattered in boxes or albums, the lives of our current youth will be recorded as "digital" entries stored away on various servers around the world.

While I certainly have no idea how we'll deal with the evolution of these personal digital archives and Google's role in preserving our life activities, a recent message from a long lost associate got me thinking about this. With one gmail and a few links that I was provided, my early years of being a type face designer brought many memories back to top of my mind. Similar to defragging your hard drive, everything about my years of design suddenly became clear again.

While the links to the ITC typeface I designed appear to be still active, the article from Publish magazine apparently is too old for Google to have scanned, and therefore my friend sent me photocopies.

My point in posting this has nothing to do with ego, but simply to show how the internet will change the way we chronicle our lives and it's something we all should consider. If anything, the most disturbing part of this rediscovery is how old I am now versus when Publish did the article in 1988!

DA*55 Photos of San Jose Del Cabo

My short trip to Baja, Mexico coincided with the annual Festival in the Centro Historico downtown area of San Jose Del Cabo. San Jose, founded in 1730, is the oldest city on the Baja Peninusla.

The festival gave me an opportunity to try out the new DA*55 lens with my K20D. While I only spent a few hours on two different afternoons walking around the festivities, I tried to test this lens shooting a range of different subject matter and in different lighting conditions.

Original images all shot in RAW and converted using CS3 to jpegs for posting on Blogger. Other than setting my white and black points (levels) on several images, I did not do any additional processing to these images.

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DA 15 Lens Details

A few photos of the new DA 15mm lens showing the sliding lens hood, and its relative size compared to a few other Limited lenses. Click on any thumbnail photo to see a larger image.