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Hi! I'm Tristan Tom, a San Francisco Bay Area based photographer shooting mostly portraits, lifestyle, stock and commercial. This blog follows both my personal and professional life. Like most, I’ve got opinions and musings on a diverse range of subjects, some of which will be featured throughout the blog along with my photographic endeavors. I encourage you to leave comments on anything you see or read here. And, tell a friend about it too! Also, here's a short bio.

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Photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto’s U2 Album Cover

Welcome and thanks for visiting! If you like what you see, you can subscribe to my full RSS feed. Also be sure to check out my Portrait and Dreams galleries. (This message will disappear on subsequent visits.)He (Bono) started taking notes as I talked,” Sugimoto recalled. Those notes became the foundation for the new...

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All of Michael Kenna’s work in one place

Scrolling down this link is quite an experience. Michael Kenna has an amazing and inspiring body of work that appears to be all aggregated in one place - http://trinixy.ru/michael_kenna.html

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April 5, 2009 - 9:41 am caterwauler - WOW. these are amazing... thanks for sharing!

April 5, 2009 - 10:23 am Tristan - Yes they sure are. I've had the opportunity to speak with Kenna at various photo symposiums. He lives here in the SF Bay Area. My signed copy of his book "Le Notré's Gardens" is among my all time favorite photo books in my library.

Amazon Kindle 2 announced should I buy it?

Amazon announced the Kindle 2 today. It looks pretty cool and I like that it can read aloud the books to you if you want.
But for me, part of the joy of real paper books is that after you’re done reading them, you can give the book to a friend or family member, or sell...

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March 10, 2009 - 6:41 pm RefPowa - This product could be interesting to help young people to discover reading... In france less and less people read and it's really sadly. :(

May 2, 2009 - 11:47 pm Tristan - Agreed. Rumor is that an educational version is in the works.

May 3, 2009 - 1:47 am Tristan - Agreed. Rumor is that an educational version is in the works.

May 6, 2009 - 9:59 am Tristan - A new larger Kindle DX has just been announced.

June 7, 2009 - 2:56 pm phototristan - test

A funny take on photographer harassment

This photographer was detained and harassed by Amtrak:

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One of the best TV commercials I’ve seen in a while

This is one of the best TV ads of 2008 and probably the best one I’ve seen in a while.
Here’s the longer version:

Photographed and edited beautifully don’t you think?

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February 25, 2009 - 6:35 pm Alyssa - Indeed, beautiful! I'm really impressed! Thanks for sharing!

30 years of Apple in three and a half minutes

I found this a cool video-30 years of Apple designs in about three and a half minutes.
It’s interesting how many of the different models I recognize or have owned over the years. Or how once the multi-color iMacs came out, that pretty much killed beige computers. Strange that just a few years ago...

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Adventure game on the iPhone

Adventure brings me right back to my childhood and it’s currently available free on the iPhone/iPod Touch in the iTunes App Store! Anyone who used to play the Atari 2600 and owns an iPhone or iPod Touch will need no further explanation.
“Adventure basically pioneered the action-adventure genre of games, and that though its art is...

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CNN – stop calling it a hologram

You may have seen CNN’s election night coverage where they beamed in some ‘holograms’ (clip above). Well, it wasn’t really a hologram, but you probably knew that. For it to have really been a hologram, the 3D image would have had to have been projected into space, right there in front of Wolf Biltzer. Instead,...

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Colin Powell endorses…:

I really like what Colin Powell has to say here:

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Free iPhone ringtones

Just passing this along. This site is pretty cool – http://audiko.net/
You can download totally free ringtones for your iPhone (and other cellphones).
While there are a few other ways to get free ringtones for your iPhone, the Audiko site makes it extremely easy because the file is already in the correct format. So, all you have...

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October 12, 2008 - 11:18 am Edward Tom - This was a great find. Very easy to use, too! Thanks for letting me know!