Travels with Rhody

I’m writing this in Salt Lake City, about three-quarters of the way from Boston to San Francisco. Just two more days of driving to go. If you do all your transcontinental travel by plane, you forget how big the country really is—especially the western half of it.
Usually I’d be paying more attention to the scenery [...]

No self-respecting digital media writer can go on a road trip without documenting the whole thing digitally. Soon after I’d decided to drive from Boston to San Francisco to take up my new post as Editor of Xconomy San Francisco—and recruited my good friend Graham Gordon Ramsay to share the driving—we hatched a devious plan [...]

I finished converting all of the bracketed photos from my Columbus Day Weekend leaf-peeping trip with my parents into high-dynamic-range (HDR) fusion images. You can view the whole lot in this Flickr photoset. Now I’m experimenting with different ways of presenting the photos. Animoto, a cool New York-based startup, offers an interesting tool for making [...]