I first met Liz Mamorsky at RoboGames 2008 when she entered the ArtBot category with some of her amazing robot creations. Needless to say, we hit it off immediately and have been good friends ever since. All of her robot sculptures have a distinct, and immediately recognizable personality. Although our brains know logically that they …
I had an early morning client meeting in Akihabara then a couple hours of down-time before my next meeting in Roppongi, so I decided to put it to good use by practicing some street photography with my Canon 5D Mark II. Akihabara has been rebranded as “Akiba” by locals and merchants alike. The area’s general …
Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, there isn’t enough light to produce an acceptable color image, and even the monochrome image has way too much noise. In this particular case, the images were taken at the Cheesecake Factory restaurant in Valley Fair Mall. The ISO was 6400 and the original images were extremely noisy. …
The Borders store next to Union Square in San Francisco used to be one of my favorite hangouts, and always made a significant dent in my wallet. Now it’s just an empty shell undergoing redecoration with no indication of who the next tenant will turnout to be. The Terminix bug killer mascot must have …