Whispering sweet nothings into the Internet’s ear since 2002
Sequence blocks and photos are drag-to-reorder again, Add Photos to Shoot now has a real thumbnail grid and works on every shoot status, and a look at where the whole app stands — plus the plan to eventually make it public.
I built a free documentation search tool for the Roland TR-1000 — all five official manuals indexed and searchable in one place, with step-by-step curated procedures for common tasks. Available as a web app and desktop download for Mac and Windows.
About six weeks ago I started building a local web app to help me triage my photo archive — something like 10,000+ shots accumulated across a Leica Q3, Q2 Monochrom, and Hasselblad X2D. The idea was simple: scan a directory, run some technical analysis (blur, exposure, sharpness), hit the Anthropic API for AI critique, and [ ]
Posted to cksample.com — C.K. Sample III I use Claude in Cowork mode for a real project: building a photo critique and archive management tool for my photography business. It s not a toy use case. Every session involves file reads, code edits, API calls, database changes. Claude is, for practical purposes, my senior developer on [ ]
April 2026 I ve been building a photo critique app for myself. Not a polished product — not yet — but a working local web tool that runs on my MacBook Air, points at my photo archive, and uses the Claude API to triage and critique images before I ever open Lightroom. It s part of a [ ]
I have a problem that a lot of serious photographers share: the backlog. Not a few weeks behind — a genuine, multi-year archive with over 10,000 shots sitting unreviewed. So I built a triage tool. Not by myself — I built it with Claude.
I went on a photowalk in downtown Dallas last Sunday with a bunch of cool people. Thanks to Ash for organizing. Here s all the shots I took on my Hasselblad X2D. Thanks to the huge sensor on that bugger, I was able to zoom in on some subjects by creatively cropping after getting the shot. [ ]
Took some shots around Dallas today. First dropping my son off at school, then downtown, then at Northpark Mall, then when picking up my daughter from school. A guy at the Lego store was kind enough to give me a replacement piece for one of the pieces I couldn t find for my Millennium Falcon. That [ ]
Went for a wet cold stroll downtown for an hour today and took a few shots. These are all shot with either Hasselblad X2D (color) or Leica Q2 Monochrom. All shots are unprocessed JPEGS straight from the cameras and all rights reserved me. Here’s a few I processed slightly… I always like taking pictures of [ ]
It s cold for Texas this week. I ve discovered that my newly replaced ankle does not like the cold very much. There s some extra aching going on down there. But also, my good foot with all the original parts has decided to develop a bit of plantar fasciitis in the heel, so that s fun. I returned [ ]