Bill Hatcher Photography

Geo tagging

 

I saw an article in the New York Times today (here) about the dangers of geo tagging photos. Like any technology you have to know how it can be used as well as misused.

I wonder in the future if "photo thieves" will one day be extracting geotag info from photos to duplicate the same shot right down to the same month, day and minute the photo was taken. I took the photo above a few years ago of hikers on Jasper Ridge located in the Maze District of Canyonlands National Park. I have recorded the day and the time I took the photo, but if anyone wanted to return to

Live Web cam of Iceland eruption

I always enjoy looking at live camera feeds from remote positions around the world. The company Mila has several cameras directed on the eruption at Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland . You can click this link to view the eruption live.

 

 

 
 

Will the iPad revitalize magazines and newspapers?

 

Take a look at this  video (here) that was posted recently on the Wired magazine web site. It's about the how Adobe and Wired are collaborating to create the new Wired magazine app for the Apple iPad coming out in April 2010. Many other magazines and Newspapers are also designing viewer apps for this new technology including the New York Times, GQ, Vanity Fair to name a few. These digital reader apps are very cool. It's also great that this Apple device may have a direct influence on every pro photographer and writer out there. I'll be excited to see if the iPad does to magazines what Television did to radio.