Ben’s Blog

I appreciate a good photograph. Three times a week, Alan Taylor, a web developer at the Boston Globe, posts a couple dozen or more good, occasionally great, photographs based on a central theme on his blog, The Big Picture.

Since I subscribed to the blog a few weeks ago, I’ve particularly enjoyed 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony, War in South Ossetia, Beijing 2008 - It’s a wrap, Preparing to rescue Hubble, and Scenes from Iraq. Of course not every post is as awesome as those, but most are worth having a look at, and the good ones are certainly worth the wait.

I learned about The Big Picture from an equally interesting source. (Yes, I read too many blogs.) Jeffrey Friedl is an American living in Kyoto, Japan, with his wife and son. He is a computer scientist, photographer, and father, so he and I have a lot in common. He is the author of O’Reilly’s Mastering Regular Expressions. His posts on life in Japan are very interesting. If you’re interested in photography, life in Japan, or just like reading about the lives of interesting people, his blog is well worth reading.

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