DIY High Speed Photography

One of the first photo projects I can remember my dad and I working on was stopping the splash of milk dropping into a dish.  Nothing spectacular, but we did wind up with some pretty cool shots.  Shattering light bulbs and popping balloons work pretty well too.  And if you try the balloons, be sure [...]

How to revive a dead Western Digital MyBook

I’ve had some bad luck with external hard drives.  For a while I was using a 100gb as my primary photo drive.  Well, it died.  Fortunately I was able to take it apart and plug the drive into an EIDE controller and keep the data. It was backed up on DVD, but getting it off [...]