photography of the Quabbin Region & beyond

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Blog Published May 11, 2017

Early Morning Visit from Ursus americanus

Last week, I woke up to what has become a yearly Springtime visit. This particular season brought a mother and three young black bear cubs to the homestead. Read more

Blog Published December 16, 2016

Using Humidification and Electrostatic Force in the Handling and Digitizing of 19th Century Latin American Newspapers

Often when scoping out digitization projects, devising complementary conservation treatments that assist in digital capture are challenging aspects of overall workflow design. And so it has been the case with our recent efforts at UConn Library Read more

Blog Published October 5, 2016

Digitizing Large Format Aerial Photography Transparencies: Part II

In Part I of this post, I summarized the workflow steps employed in digitizing 9x9 large format film from a 2002 aerial survey of Connecticut… Read more

Blog Published September 30, 2016

Digitizing Large Format Aerial Photography Transparencies: Part I

One of the challenges (and rewards) of managing a digital production lab for a university research library is working with the wide assortment of analog formats that are collected within its archives, special collections, and map library holdings. Read more

Content Published September 5, 2016

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Blog Published June 29, 2016

An Automated X-Y Table System for Photo Stitching: Initial Impressions

X-Y tables are used in digital capture for the creation of overlapping image tiles for items that cannot be photographed with a sufficient amount of spatial resolution in a single shot. One of the system's main attributes is that once the analog original Read more

Blog Published April 25, 2016

Black Bear Creates Digital Noise

One of the nice things about living in the middle of the woods is that your house can act as a very large blind. Here it's springtime, and black bears are up and about once again. Read more

Gallery Published April 25, 2016

Black Bear

Gallery Published March 28, 2016

Martha's Vineyard (2 new items)

Blog Published March 26, 2016

Walking Through the Present's Past

This is a fine time of year to be out walking the dog in southern New England as the biting flies and mosquitoes have yet to emerge and get you cursing… Read more

Gallery Published March 13, 2016

By Land and By Sea With Timber