It started with an innocuous audio interview with the then-President of the Products and Technology Group at SAP AG, Shai Agassi. Then came Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, sitting at a table with an umbrella. It wasn’t long before Scoble introduced us to Thomas Hawk (investment advisor by day, ...

This is a different kind of photowalking than we usually do. First, no Thomas Hawk. Second, we have a real, professional photographer (he even has the license plates to prove it). Third, we go for a nature walk up in the Long Ridge Open Space Preserve above Silicon Valley. ...

This is a real treat. Stanford University’s Ian Hsu setup a tour for a fairly large group of photographers. We met Patience Young, who gave us a tour of the Rodin Statue Garden, Bernard Barryte who told us a story about the Burghers of Calais, and Gabe Hoffman and the ...

During our recent photowalking, Stanford University rolled out its STARMAC team (Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control). These are quadrotor helicopters that can fly remotely without much human assistance. Really cool research project that you’ll want to check out. Anyway, here you meet the team: Gabe Hoffmann, ...

The photo geeks visit the USS Hornet and come away with some good memories and a great set of photos. Thomas Hawk leads us around the decks of the famous aircraft carrier that played a key role in World War II and also picked up two of ...

We walk around with Flickr-famous photographer (he’s also CEO of competitor Zooomr) Thomas Hawk at the second Maker Faire. If you’ve never been to a Maker Faire, this is a good chance to get a look at some of what goes on there. Thousands of people who make things ...

What do you get when you throw a productive photographer into a show with 2,000 machines? Sheer chaos, that’s what. Oh, and some great photos! Come along for Half Moon Bay’s Dream Machines show, where you follow Thomas Hawk along for some of his photo shooting and get to ...

Here we continue our Photowalk around Half Moon Bay with a 600mm monster lens where we take photos of people looking at tide pools, stunt bikers jumping over rocks, and more surfers. All while meeting some of the 25 people who showed up for the Photowalk. Next Photowalk, by ...

In this first part of the eighth Photowalking show I’ve done with Thomas Hawk 25 photo geeks met one March morning to shoot with a massive 600mm F4.0 lens. Thomas Hawk showed off some prints he made with his new Epson R2400 printer. Dave Sifry, founder of Technorati, showed off ...

This part two of the photowalking tour of San Francisco’s Chinatown district led by Thomas Hawk. Joining Thomas is Andy Williams, Kristopher Tate, Matt Roe, Andrew Moore and others as they document the streets and alleys of Chinatown.

Thomas Hawk leads a photowalking tour through San Francisco’s Chinatown district. He’s joined by Kristopher Tate, Matt Roe, Andrew Moore and others as they capture the detailed visual landscape this section of the city has to offer. Podtech’s Eddie Codel runs camera on this one. ...

Here we continue the tour of the Stanford Linear Accelerator by Bebo White. Follow photographer Thomas Hawk as he captures some great images of this wonderful building (the longest in the U.S.).

Bebo White, one of the authors of the first U.S. Web site at the Stanford Linear Accelerator, takes us on a tour of the longest building in the United States (maybe the world) with photographer Thomas Hawk and blogging guru Shel Israel. We’ve split this video up into two ...

Thomas Hawk and about 25 others spent a fun day taking photos in Sacramento, Calif. at the California State Railroad Museum. Here’s part II.

Thomas Hawk and about 25 others spent a fun day taking photos in Sacramento, Calif. at the California State Railroad Museum. Here’s part I, Part II coming tomorrow.

Heather Champ is one of our favorite photographers. Not only is she the community contact at Flickr, but she’s the co-founder of JPG Magazine. Here Thomas Hawk and I follow her around as she shows off how she makes unique images with Polaroid cameras. Neat stuff, although who ...

Jan Kabili, who does Photoshop Online TV, continues her lessons of how to make your photos look better with Adobe Photoshop. In Part II, she goes into sharpening and other Photoshop techniques that you should know to make your photos better.

Jan Kabili, who does Photoshop Online TV, comes over to my house to teach Thomas Hawk a bunch of Adobe Photoshop tips and tricks. In Part I he gets schooled on Adobe Bridge, which is a great program to bring RAW images into your computer and do some ...

The Vloggies first annual videoblog awards night made its debut in San Franscisco. The net paparazzi were out in force. PodTech, along with other videobloggers, has extensive coverage of the night. We will release that content shortly, but here is a short video showing the highlights.

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Here’s the third and last segment of our walk with Thomas Hawk around a Half Moon Bay pumpkin patch. It starts out with us almost getting kicked out of the store for filming. Lots of fun. Later you meet David Alpert, salesguy from Podtech who was following us around, ...

Half Moon Bay in California (just a few miles from Silicon Valley) is famous for pumpkins. Thomas and I got lucky with the light and scenery and he made more than 500 images in a little more than an hour, about 60 of which are keepers (he wrote about the ...

Thomas Hawk starts off a day of shooting in Half Moon Bay by cleaning his sensor on his Canon 5D. Over the next few days you’ll see the rest of Photowalking with Thomas Hawk and discover how he made 60 great images in just a little more than an ...

Here we change gears during our Photowalking series: we head into the city for some urban nighttime photography. You’ll get lots of tips on how to shoot at night.

This is the third installment of the first photo shoot with Thomas Hawk as we walk around underneath the Golden Gate Bridge.