Identity Management and Photography

I love shooting without a flash. So does Bob and he just published a good public service announcement for shooting without using a flash. (I do like that second shot of Mike a lot.)

There are a bunch of people in the greater identity management world who would consider themselves amateur photographers. I wonder if there is commonality of photography and IdM that practitioners of both find compelling.

From a content perspective, the aspects of a picture I take that I really like are, in some sense, a reflection of me. Maybe this photo/IdM thing comes back to relationships. We are looking for ourselves in our subjects.

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Photos from Catalyst: Not Mine

I haven’t processed the shots I took at Catalyst this evening. Needless to say, they won’t be as good as Bob’s. I rarely like photos of myself, but I do like this one.

A lovely dinner

Last night I had dinner with a cast of characters:

We grabbed a late batch of dim sum at Ton Kiang. Good stuff I have to say.

One of the things that Mark Mc and noticed was that the identity market is remarkably small. It is definitely a good thing that ex-Access360/IBM, Thor/Oracle, Waveset/Sun guys can break bread and have a laugh over the deals that we used to compete. It’s that (grudging, at times) comradery in this market that I love and it is one the things that makes Catalyst so much fun.

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See the Jefferson Memorial before it sinks

Jefferson MemorialRead this in the Post; the Jefferson Memorial (or at least the walkway near it) is sinking. I’ll save you a trip to DC. Check out my photos of it without having to fight traffic and other tourists.

Photography class has come to a close

I just finished a very good intro to digital photography class at the US Department of Agriculture. (For those of outside DC, USDA has a killer language and other continuing education program here in DC.) I have uploaded most of the pictures from my final, a portfolio of the assignment I went on over the course of the class.