“Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n’y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n’y a plus rien à retrancher.”

(In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.)

- Antoine de Saint Exupery, Terre des Hommes (1939)

It’s been a while, and sadly I’m going to come back with a photo nerd post. Phase One has announced a new digital back: the P65+. Ultra-large 60 megapixel images from the first full-frame 6×4.5 sensor.

If you’ve never hated it, it probably isn’t that great.

Jared Tarbell of Complexification.net makes abstract designs with code.

I love this one:

The coolest part is that you can watch as each design is generated by a little applet on each page of the site.

This guy irks me. He’s a 17-year old successful commercial shooter… what more is there to say. Also see the interview on Strobist.

I’ve had a Wacom Graphire3 4×5 pad for a while, but since I’m retouching on a daily basis now, I decided it was time to get a more professional model. This is the Intuos3 6×8:

It has a larger surface, greater sensitivity, and is more customizable than my old one. Mostly I like it because it saves my wrists.

This is odd to me, that Oakley would produce an Ultra High Definition digital video camera. I’m not in love with filmography, but this is really cool. It’s called Red.

Hi-def at the moment is only 2.1 MP per frame… Red is 12 MP. It’s like a Canon 5D at 60 fps. I’d love to see a Red movie.

Canon has just released the stunning 1Ds Mark III Digital SLR. All I can say is that this thing is insane… at 21.1 MP, 35mm digital cameras are now another step closer to high-end digital backs.

Read more here.

As a photography student finishes school and begins shooting or assisting for profit, he realizes that there is much more to the business than he originally thought. The Pro Photo Business Blog is incessantly negative, and I usually can’t stand to read it, but this is a quip from a recent post I liked:

“Many people become photographers for the wrong reasons. For some, this profession might supply glamour, a creative outlet, or a need to express oneself, but these are reasons why you would choose a hobby. If you want to survive as a professional, you have to generate a sustainable profit. Here’s something they don’t teach you in photo school: Ninety percent of being a professional photographer is looking for work. Only nine percent is actually taking the photo. According to Arnold Newman, the last one percent is moving furniture.”

I’m not a huge comic strip connoisseur, but this one hits home. It’s all about the photo biz.

I like number 276: