GettyImages: Interesting read re significant advances, innovations and renewed attention to the rights of content creators in 2009: http://bit.ly/80GvIW | Wednesday, December 30, 2009
GettyImages: Interesting read re significant advances, innovations and renewed attention to the rights of content creators in 2009: http://bit.ly/80GvIW http://bit.ly/7rubjP
GettyImages: During Dec we will be celebrating images that represent the best of the best in our 2009 Year in Review: http://bit.ly/6oQNAk | Tuesday, December 29, 2009
GettyImages: During Dec we will be celebrating images that represent the best of the best in our 2009 Year in Review: http://bit.ly/6oQNAk http://bit.ly/6uCDaf
GettyImages: During Dec we will be celebrating images that represent the best of the best in our 2009 Year in Review: http://bit.ly/5APBvA | Monday, December 28, 2009
GettyImages: During Dec we will be celebrating images that represent the best of the best in our 2009 Year in Review: http://bit.ly/5APBvA http://bit.ly/5SrlFW
GettyImages: @crustydolphin: For all tax questions, email royalty.questions@gettyimages.com, we'll be happy to provide additional info to clarify... | Monday, December 21, 2009
GettyImages: @crustydolphin: For all tax questions, email royalty.questions@gettyimages.com, we'll be happy to provide additional info to clarify... http://bit.ly/63InnF
GettyImages: Congrats to Phil Walter - he won 3 prizes at the 30th annual SPARC Sir Terry McLean National Sports Journalism Awards: http://bit.ly/85Uc85. |
GettyImages: Congrats to Phil Walter - he won 3 prizes at the 30th annual SPARC Sir Terry McLean National Sports Journalism Awards: http://bit.ly/85Uc85. http://bit.ly/64HlP5
GettyImages: RT @MacTribe: In depth overview of Photo industry with @GettyImages @Masterfile rubberball #togs #stockphotography http://bit.ly/4AwA0D | Wednesday, December 16, 2009
GettyImages: RT @MacTribe: In depth overview of Photo industry with @GettyImages @Masterfile rubberball togs stockphotography http://bit.ly/4AwA0D http://bit.ly/88kedc
GettyImages: Thomas Friedman writes how iStockphoto plays an important role in “The Do-It-Yourself Economy” http://bit.ly/5xDmNz | Tuesday, December 15, 2009
GettyImages: Thomas Friedman writes how iStockphoto plays an important role in “The Do-It-Yourself Economy” http://bit.ly/5xDmNz http://bit.ly/5IwjS3
GettyImages: For the history buffs out there, look back at the past in color with our collection of autochrome photography. http://bit.ly/5fUCjb |
GettyImages: For the history buffs out there, look back at the past in color with our collection of autochrome photography. http://bit.ly/5fUCjb http://bit.ly/8xMlyI
GettyImages: UK’s Creative Review: “The World According to Getty: Your image searches and what they mean.” Grab your issue today! http://bit.ly/91qdp |
GettyImages: UK’s Creative Review: “The World According to Getty: Your image searches and what they mean.” Grab your issue today! http://bit.ly/91qdp http://bit.ly/6NvoUH
GettyImages: Our Hulton Archive editors are sharing stories behind the imagery in the collection. Check out the first post! http://bit.ly/8ekHHA |
GettyImages: Our Hulton Archive editors are sharing stories behind the imagery in the collection. Check out the first post! http://bit.ly/8ekHHA http://bit.ly/6pYmrd
GettyImages: Getty Images is proud to once again be the official photographic agency for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games! http://bit.ly/5pmRYS | Tuesday, December 08, 2009
GettyImages: Getty Images is proud to once again be the official photographic agency for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games! http://bit.ly/5pmRYS http://bit.ly/73vFuL
GettyImages: RT@auxpr:Former creative head of Getty Images Lewis Blackwell , author of a new book, Photowisdom http://bit.ly/8WCspv | Monday, December 07, 2009
GettyImages: RT@auxpr:Former creative head of Getty Images Lewis Blackwell , author of a new book, Photowisdom http://bit.ly/8WCspv http://bit.ly/7n6h9A
TIME Magazine Featured Image | Saturday, December 05, 2009
TIME Magazine feature one of my photographs in this weeks issue.
The article reads:
Get Smart
By BRYAN WALSH Friday, Dec. 04, 2009
In 1886, the town of great Barrington, Mass., set up the first alternating-current electrical transmission line in the U.S. In the nearly 125 years since, the products we run with electricity have changed incalculably, but in many ways, the massive grid that delivers that power has barely changed at all. Utilities have little means of tracking the electricity they produce and distribute; if a blackout occurs, they're in the dark until angry customers start calling.
Users are in the same boat. They don't know much about the electricity coming in, and they don't much care, since they generally pay about the same for their power throughout the day even though spikes in demand make electricity much more expensive to produce at peak times. The result is a creaky electrical grid that is still prone to spectacular failures like the 2003 blackout in the northeastern U.S. and parts of Canada. Yet smaller leaks are problematic too. "We lose between 7% and 9% of our power in the wires of our transmissions system," says Don Von Dollen, program manager at the Electric Power Research Institute. "That's a lot of power lost into the air." Our tech is 21st century, our grid barely in the 20th.
But there's a way to upgrade the grid by marrying the networked intelligence of the Internet to transmission lines and transformers. The result wouldn't just be better; it'd be smarter — a smart grid. Utilities would be able to remotely monitor the distribution of electricity, allowing them to respond rapidly to any outages. Consumers would be able to use intelligent, networked appliances to control how and when they use electricity, shrinking their power bills and smoothing demand.
A smarter grid could better integrate intermittent renewable sources like wind and solar, which would help cut carbon emissions and ultimately save consumers as much as $20 billion over the next decade. Though transforming the nation's electrical system will be a long and expensive process, the creation of a smart grid is one of the White House's top green priorities, with the Federal Government releasing $3.4 billion in grants in October to 100 companies working on the grid. "It will make our grid more secure and reliable," said President Barack Obama in an October speech. "Building this 21st century energy infrastructure will help us lay a foundation for lasting growth and prosperity."
We're still a long way from a truly smart national grid, but cities around the U.S. are beginning to put the pieces together. In ever green Boulder, Colo., the utility Xcel Energy has embarked on its SmartGridCity project, an experiment that would make the town the first fully functioning smart-grid-enabled municipality in the world. It begins with the installation of 16,000 advanced smart meters, which allow Xcel to track its customers' electricity use on a real-time basis. With the entire system networked, that data can be used to anticipate failures and allow Xcel to respond quickly; the project has already helped the utility avert four potential long-term outages this year. "We can see a failure before it's a failure," says Jay Herrmann, regional vice president of Xcel.
The company will soon launch an in-home energy-management Web system that will allow Boulderites to remotely review and control their electricity consumption. With that knowledge comes power: by tracking our consumption patterns, we can use electricity more efficiently. "Fundamentally we're applying information technology to the existing electrical infrastructure," says Mark Brownstein, managing director of business partnerships at the Environmental Defense Fund. "With greater information, we can provide new opportunities to improve service and reliability."
I found my old Chinon in the car glove compartment which had some old film in it...I was surprised to see, amongst other shots, some images of my kids when they were much younger. This dates the film to about a year ago - left in the hot (and cold) glove compartment. This is one of the other shots on the roll.
GettyImages: http://bit.ly/6bDbbR - Getty Images archive looks back at how print media once drove news consumption. How times change! |
GettyImages: http://bit.ly/6bDbbR - Getty Images archive looks back at how print media once drove news consumption. How times change! http://bit.ly/7VynWi
GettyImages: Celebrating images from across our collections that represent the best of the best in our 2009 Year in Review. http://bit.ly/5LFFqP | Wednesday, December 02, 2009
GettyImages: Celebrating images from across our collections that represent the best of the best in our 2009 Year in Review. http://bit.ly/5LFFqP http://bit.ly/8bum7i