Photographed by Herr Spahn in 1985
Grafenwoehr, Germany
I smocked the frame (and Laura’s dress)
Mark Matthew and Laura
Tag: technology
Device Screen Magnetism
Mesmerized. Engrossed. Hypnotic effect. Eyes glued to Grandma’s iPad screen. I saw this composition on the couch.
The Grandchildren visiting.
Not sure what they were watching at this moment but no attention paid to Grandma’s lens. IPhone lens.
Duck Duck Go Search Engine Does NOT Track You
TAKE BACK YOUR PRIVACY is what it says on the DUCK DUCK GO page here
Have you tried this search engine and if so, what do you think? If not yet, why not try it?
Recently my friend Steve ran into an acquaintance who’s about 25 years younger than we are.
I mention the age difference as I’m sure it’s one reason I’m just hearing about it.
The guy is totally into computers and does well although I can’t tell you what his business is exactly except when they were talking about search engines he recommended the search engine DUCK DUCK GO.
The selling point (no charge) is they DON’T TRACK YOU.
Have you ever searched for an item and then received emails and ads in a variety of places with said item?? I am always being offered an opportunity to receive an online master’s degree in Art Education. It’s well known I look at shoes. And now it’s baby items.
My friend V was researching a blender purchase and I helped. Whoa!
I can’t tell you how long I got promos and ads about blenders. They KNEW I hadn’t purchased a blender yet! I’m offered photography books all the time. And equipment. Let’s face it, Amazon has my #.
This just happened to me today. Again.
Suddenly they’re offering me FREE SHIPPING on printed invitations. (Thanks a lot-a tad late- I already ordered printed invitations the other day and paid for shipping)
There’s an excellent article about Duck Duck GO by Harry McCracken at TIME magazine who calls it the In-N- Out Burger of Search Engines. You’ll still use Google for images and books. But there is definitely “reduced clutter.”
Thank you Mr. Gabriel Weinberg for founding Duck Duck Go. You are my new home page. I read more about your company in Paoli, Pennsylvania on the Wikipedia Article here.
It took me seven years to find you.
Maybe a few more fans will like your privacy factor (for the good).
Oh yes, they’re hiring, too.
I know this is primarily a photography blog but I didn’t want to screen shot their logo without permission.
Men at Work
In the living room at Mark and Erika’s house, Saturday of Easter weekend.
I pulled the iPhone out of my pocket. QUICK
The four males engaged with their devices or book. Oblivious to me.
Erika’s dad- Donald, grandsons Michael and Jack and my son Mark on the right. Pap’s birthday. April 19th.
I love this photo of the four them.
Hot Time, Cell Phones in the City
Street photography isn’t my thing. Funny to say that after posting loads of NYC city street photos the last week but I mean being a true street photographer is not my genre. Photographing people unaware hasn’t really appealed to me and I felt awkward or intrusive. But in an hours time walking down Fifth Avenue I took 165 photos of people on their cell phones. A lot of them while crossing the street without looking. It wasn’t a plan and I made a little movie of the photos but the end result was monotonous and boring. Even though I got it down to a minute thirty three seconds it was a snoozer. You can determine if the ones I have chosen to illustrate my experience produce boredom in the viewer.
In a couple of the photos you can see three or four people on phones at once.
This is not going to be an ongoing effort to capture people using technology in public. The good thing is it allowed me to get more comfortable on the sidewalk photographing people. Of course, it wasn’t a fair playing field as they were definitely distracted and ignoring me which is how I was able to lift the camera to my eye and take their picture.
How have cell phones affected the way we live? Our human interaction?
There are posters around the city that say HEADS UP showing a guy on his cell phone and a vehicle turning into the crosswalk.
Three on phones in one frame
Crossing the street
Crossing the street
Otherwise engaged
How to Keep Four Children Entertained at the Motel
You know how I love to capture those candids. When electronic devices are involved they’re in another place and pay no attention to me and my camera. Shot in October 2009 but when I found it today it made me chuckle.
Technology in the Early Morning- Old School in the Afternoon
It’s fun to be a houseguest where you are one of the family and people don’t notice you and your camera. (Actually taken with my phone)
On Saturday in the early morning I was sitting in the rocking chair and saw James reading the news on his tablet instead of the newspaper that had been delivered and Aunt Mary checking her email.
I was still in my nightgown and sipping coffee. The scene just struck me. Later in the day Mary told me that James had gotten the new push mower out of the shed and was going to be mowing the front lawn. I ran and got my camera and documented the “old school” lawn mowing method preferred by my son-in-law to be. It was his idea to use both photos to compare and contrast the new technology and the old fashioned lawnmower all in the same day!
My Sister’s NYC Kitchen- 20 for Dinner? No problem!
Filmstrip Projector Paired with a Record, I Can Hear the Sound to Advance the Frame
School. Ditto machines and drinking in the smell of the purple sheets and filmstrip projectors. Who remembers?
