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World Backup Day 2017

Sometimes, one wonders whether it is still necessary to repeat it, but it is important (No! critical) to backup digital data as soon as we approach our first computer. Worse, for a (digital) photographer, it’s now critical. Don’t we all have lost already one or more images because of a hard disk crash, a capricious…

Epson Pano Awards 2016

A photo contest I particularly like, the Epson Pano Award, just released its list of 2016 winners. You will find superb images,: In panoramic format (sometimes, even vertical ones), avec a clear taste for abstraction (it’s more than OK with me), and a notable attention to Architecture and Nature (no contradiction here, you’ll see). Go and…

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Security on YLovePhoto

Minor technical information for those of you who are sensitive to their online safety. One of the recommended steps to a better privacy and safety is using web site under the SSL protocol (accessing them with https:// instead of http://). Now, YLovePhoto helps you and can be transparently accessed through both addresses: https://www.YLovePhoto.com/ http://www.YLovePhoto.com/   For…

Goodbye Kodak

Kodak just filled for bankruptcy. It may not be the total end of the red and yellow logo. But they were already selling their assets and debt has been climbing up quite high in the recent months.

Olympus: How to end?

Olympus is going through really dire straits. The previous management has obviously organized some really risky finance operations (so risky that they turned to be catastrophic). Now that smoke and dust are settling down we can see more clearly (it produced a small hike up in the stock prices and we heard that the rumors…