Circuit City

January 7, 2009

I’ll start off by saying that they are a lost cause.  From the get go Circuit City has been overpriced and worthless for a place to purchase electronics.  I purchased from Circuit City once when I saved money for my Onkyo receiver and they were the only store with it [...]

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Natural History Museum & NYC Photo [QUICK] walk

January 6, 2009
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January 4th, 2009 I attached my Tamron 28-300 VC lens onto my Nikon D700. I put a pedometer on my belt, grabbed Melissa’s hand and started walking to the train station. It was cold out at a mere 30 degrees and we had 1.15 miles to walk to [...]

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Saying GoodBye to JPG Magazine

January 5, 2009
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I am sad that JPG had announced that is is closing.  Then to everyones suprise a website formed called Save JPG!!!  The website took a poll of who would pay an annual fee for membership.  However much I loved JPG Magazine I would never pay an annual fee to submit [...]

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Image Recovery

January 5, 2009
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Reading Andrew Kantor’s ‘Legal Rights of Photographers V2.0′ made me want to share my recovery thoughts with everyone.  Working at a camera repair shop I deal with a lot of image recoveries.  As a photographer, you can sometimes get faced with an ultimatum of deleting a photograph or having your [...]

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Twitter Mug

January 2, 2009

I found a post on Twitter a few days back about a new Twitter Mug that you can purchase for $14.  Yesterday I posted a link to it myself because it is pretty cool.  The site will take your twitter friends and put their images on onto the mug.  [...]

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Fairmont

January 1, 2009

“When we play out-of-state, the crowds love us and show it. When we play in Jersey the crowds just stand there like we are the Insane Clown Posse.” is a quote from an interview I did back in 2002 with Chorus & Verse
I was with Fairmont for a while back [...]

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My favorite holiday photos for 2008

December 25, 2008
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Lately my favorite type of photography is nature photography.  But not animals as much as earth made structures, etc…
However, this holiday season was busy for me as far as family photos go.  I had some photo gigs in locations that aren’t very photo friendly.  A company holiday party in a [...]

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DevilDuck.net Change

December 24, 2008
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I decide to change the site from user submitted content to information on the upcoming book and photo updates on the project.
For those who want to participate please share your photos with us at the Flickr Group

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I Heart JPG Magazine

December 24, 2008
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jpgmag.com Subscriber since May 2008
2 Hot Photos
1 Published Photo
Ever since my photo was published in JPG Magazine my jpgmag.com popularity has jumped beyond the level I thought it would. I’m a very humble person. I know I have an eye for photography and am good at what I [...]

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URL Shortening

December 23, 2008

With Twitter bringing the internet to its next level with micro blogging everyone started running out of their 140 characters when they link to a URL. I mean, a link like http://www.scottwyden.com/blog/url_shortening would take up so much of your character that you wouldn’t have room to write what you [...]

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Devices

December 21, 2008

The technology world has come some great distances.  When you have a phone like the Apple iPhone which, in my opinion, currently only has three flaws you can see how the world is changing.
Flaws

AT&T Service
No MMS
Internal Battery (not as big of a deal)

However, phones like the iPhone, Blackberries, Palm’s, etc… [...]

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