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The Confidence Gap [Review]

The Confidence Gap [Review]

I’ve always had a sense that confidence played a bigger part in things than the textbooks were letting on. Of all the strangenesses of the human mind, “confidence” (yes, with suspicious quotes, too) is perhaps the most interesting to me. I generally...
The Happiness Hypothesis [Review]

The Happiness Hypothesis [Review]

The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt is a book about something almost anyone with a religious background and a growing interest in science and psychology has probably wondered about. If you read almost any ancient religious text, you’ll find an awful lot...
Stitching Images Up Through April

Stitching Images Up Through April

Around February this year, I began working with a photo stitching technique. It’s known as the Brenizer method and its a way of taking a series of images captured with a longer lens, and stitching them together to make a wider angle photo. Creating images with...
March in Photo Manipulations, Now with More Yarn

March in Photo Manipulations, Now with More Yarn

I had an important realization recently: I don’t necessarily value the process of creating a photograph as much as I enjoy the process of creating an image. That is to say, while I love grabbing my camera and taking pictures, the part I really enjoy is watching...
February in Macro Photography

February in Macro Photography

This month started with a macro photography challenge from Greg, one of the other Petruzzo Photography members. I had quite a lot of fun with it. It’s a very nice change of pace from photographing people. I decided to keep with it throughout the month and give...