18 Apr 2008 06:59:31 PDT Ramblings, musing, and observations of New York Photographer, Henry Butz en-US http://www.hbutz.com/ http://www.hbutz.com/public/rss_image_144_237.gif http://www.hbutz.com/ 144 237 18 Apr 2008 06:59:31 PDT You will find new photographs on the last page of the Art Nude section... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/256.html 19 Feb 2008 11:06:59 PDT Why are you people still buying Nikon cameras? http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/255.html 28 Jan 2008 08:29:06 PDT I cannot relate to photographers who toss out their old Nikon cameras to buy new Nikon cameras because newer models can operate at 5 frames per second instead of 3. Better photographers make better photographs... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/254.html 01 Jan 2008 11:02:58 PDT We are paying people to kill us, slowly. What are we thinking? Please support a National Heath Care System. You will thank yourself later... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/253.html 03 Dec 2007 12:55:47 PDT From Dam Square, adjacent to the Krasnapolsky Nh Grand Hotel is rather depressing looking street by the name of Warmoesstraat, which looks like an alley behind a row of stores. As you walk further North along Warmoesstraat, it explodes into a collection of shops, bars, coffeeshops,... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/252.html 01 Dec 2007 10:56:30 PDT You pay for a strip card or "strippenkaart" in advance, good for one year containing 2, 3, 8, 15, or 45 strips. Then, when you are ready to travel, you punch one more strip than the number of zones you want to travel through... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/251.html 13 May 2007 12:44:32 PDT Personally, I think there's too much "glam" photography in the world and not enough erotic edgy black and white images. Yet, I am motivated since much of the existing web glamour photography really sucks... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/250.html 28 Mar 2007 05:20:27 PDT My photograph entitled "Clouds" will be on display at the 2007 Juried Art Show at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. This show will run through July 20th... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/249.html 19 Mar 2007 12:17:28 PDT It seems like I'm always months behind in my website updates. I'm finally getting around posting some photographs I took in January - as well as some images I created yesterday. That's a new record... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/248.html 12 Mar 2007 06:04:49 PDT [Microsoft] will expire your cookies anywhere from 23 hours to 24 hours and 15 minutes - who knows, exactly? That will depend on several other factors: what time of year it is, if we are in Daylight Savings Time, which operating system you are running, and if your system has been "patched."... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/247.html 08 Mar 2007 07:17:52 PDT While the Titans are battling for control to see how much money they can milk out of me, I've re-published my book as a special edition, coil bound book once again. If you've been trying to click on the links, you've probably seen my book become "unavailable."... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/246.html 16 Oct 2006 12:07:04 PDT I have added more photographs of an exciting new model in the Nude Section. This time, we did some body painting. More to follow. http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/242.html 16 Oct 2006 11:36:14 PDT Often, a model might be more expensive because they've added a new feature which you don't need. For an extra $25, the T3 might be a package deal which includes a CD ROM of software which you will never use. Or, it may just be the market which has driven it up because it's black instead of silver. Black cameras fetch more money on the market because they look cool... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/241.html 13 Sep 2006 10:20:14 PDT I've got some exciting new updates and a wonderful new model for Fall. She has the classic, art model figure - and, standing at over six feet tall, she's the tallest model I've ever photographed. http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/240.html 13 Sep 2006 10:08:38 PDT Today, the Microsoft PC platform is as bad as Apple was in the 80's. I cannot purchase games for my computer. Although my computer is over 1000 times faster than the one I used twenty years ago, it's still too slow to run games on. http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/239.html 18 Jul 2006 07:05:54 PDT While the feds are spending my tax dollars to force me into spending more money to maintain a website which costs me money, I've decided that PICS tags are pretty useless at this point... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/237.html 14 Jul 2006 11:56:47 PDT I should have thought of this long ago - I just wrote a book entitled, "How To Pose Nude" - a woman's guide to dealing with the male photographer. I will give you the book free of charge. Really... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/236.html 27 Jun 2006 14:55:11 PDT Teachers Federal Credit Union opened a branch in Central Islip - a bit odd, since C.I. is not exactly the nicest of neighborhoods, but it's on the way home from work. They've added a coin machine, restricted to banking customers... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/235.html 11 Jun 2006 16:56:46 PDT This is only one of many planned updates to my landscape photography section this year. Check out Page 3 in the Landscape section for some great photos from the streets of New York City. Later this year, I hope to be posting more images of New England... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/233.html 09 Jun 2006 12:38:04 PDT To take a landscape photograph, A) Load your camera with film B) Step outside C) Depress the shutter. Develop and print as normal... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/232.html 31 May 2006 10:14:17 PDT Tell me how a $35/month cell phone contract costs me $60/month. I was bored one day and called Sprint to review my plan. Rather than saving me money by advising me on a plan which suits my needs, they suckered me into a 2-year contract which is nearly twice as expensive as the previous one... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/230.html 05 Apr 2006 07:33:20 PDT Three solid months of flawless service... until last night when the little red light comes on. My worst nightmares are becoming realized... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/229.html 16 Mar 2006 09:19:04 PST It's becoming longer and longer in-between website updates, for which I cannot offer an apology. Thanks to new federal regulations, it was taking me several days to make the most insignificant of changes to the website... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/226.html 08 Jan 2006 05:52:11 PST Some of my New Year's resolutions are to finish cleaning my room, get more involved with alternative process photography, and update the website... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/224.html 23 Nov 2005 09:05:28 PST My first visit to California unhappily coincided with the release of the science fiction film Escape From New York. When I spoke with my New Yawk "Hey - howya doin" accent, people looked at me like I was an alien from outer space who had just landed... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/223.html 29 Sep 2005 08:42:30 PDT My first book is in the final stages of publication and is on-line for purchase! This is dedicated to fine-art nude photography... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/221.html 29 Sep 2005 08:26:28 PDT The United States Department of Justice started browsing through Yahoo's directory looking for erotic photography this month... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/220.html 26 Sep 2005 06:58:44 PDT I don't really need a camera to have a nice time in New England. The people are wonderful, the food is great, and the scenery is simply gorgeous... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/219.html 17 Sep 2005 05:50:13 PDT I believe there is no god and never was. We live on a godless planet of primitive beings. We are born from the fires of Eat or Be Eaten. While we love nature, we bring our insect repellent and watch out for bears... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/218.html 01 Aug 2005 12:26:11 PDT I've updated my art nude section with some latest photographs of a very lovely model. Be sure to watch the erotica section for more of her in the future... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/216.html 27 Jul 2005 10:12:57 PDT Barbara Nitke is a New York fine-art photographer who specializes in sadomasochistic imagery. In 2001, she filed a lawsuit against the Communications Decency Act's restrictions... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/215.html 18 Jul 2005 07:50:12 PDT Many photographers have been 'waiting for the other shoe to drop' after the Attorney General Alberto Gonzales made some clever changes in the child pornography record keeping laws, otherwise known as Title 18 sect 2257... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/211.html 15 Jul 2005 13:12:13 PDT You may have noticed the addition of some annoying disclaimers in the nude and glamour areas. See my rant from June 1st... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/210.html 25 Jun 2005 17:37:56 PDT I do not think there is anything wrong with viewing artistic nude photographs of the human body. Some people agree with me. Others do not... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/209.html 01 Jun 2005 08:20:03 PDT I have a legal question for you. Is it possible to be convicted of murder without actually killing someone? The answer is: Probably not. http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/208.html 22 May 2005 13:58:46 PDT Landscape photography is so very big. Several times, while photographing the lighthouses of New England, I started with the best of intentions. I would take notes, I tried to spell "Annisquam"... and, I'd give up... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/207.html 31 Mar 2005 08:23:35 PDT I have added Spring updates to the website, including many new color digital images of a lovely model. Most fell into the "Art Nude" category, but a few are listed under "Erotica." http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/206.html 02 Dec 2004 11:51:13 PDT I have been asking friends I know to quit shopping at Wal-Mart. This mega-retailer personifies the worst of American Capitalism. They are sexually harassing our women and digging up the graves of our dead. No, I'm not kidding... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/203.html 14 Oct 2004 13:34:45 PDT In 1862, a man named Snellen devised a testing system to determine people's eyesight. He asked people to stand at 20 feet and through experimentation discovered the smallest sized letter that most people with good eyesight could see. He called this a size 20 letter and the vision was recorded as 20/20... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/201.html 11 Sep 2004 08:52:38 PDT Is the answer really 42? http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/200.html 05 Jul 2004 07:26:01 EDT I have cleaned up the website this past weekend. Long over-due was a unified file naming scheme to include new additions, such as digital images and landscape images, or digital landscape... I am finding that there's a big world out there, outside of the studio... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/185.html 06 Jun 2004 13:28:25 EDT Yet another successful trip to New England this month to photograph lighthouses, nautical images, and landscape photography... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/183.html 20 Mar 2004 21:03:00 EST There IS intelligent life in the galaxy. You don't need to "believe" in UFO's, Little Green Men (LGM's), or Bigfoot. You just have to multiply a few numbers together to prove it to yourself. http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/178.html 28 Feb 2004 09:53:20 EST AIRLINE is a heavily biased piece of political crap brought to you by the happy folks at Southwest Airlines as way to elevate themselves, ticket takers and flying waitresses, into television stars through a televised bashing of the general public which they serve... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/177.html 10 Dec 2003 19:36:54 EST Why do they make airplanes out of aluminum instead of lead? Because aluminum weighs less. Why does aluminum weigh less than lead? Because the sub-atomic particles which make up aluminum, the protons, electrons, and neutrons are further apart e.g. it's a less dense of a metal... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/165.html 02 Dec 2003 09:04:58 EST I removed the MP9 player plugin from Netscape and restarted. But, the plugin reappeared. I did this several times. It reappeared several times... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/164.html 23 Nov 2003 11:34:00 EST When it comes to your digital photographs, prepare for massive and catastrophic failure. CD-R's are extremely cheap when compared to the heartbreak of loosing once in a lifetime memories. http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/160.html 12 Nov 2003 08:21:36 EST Throw your video recorders out the window. Here comes the "Broadcast Flag." http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/155.html 20 Nov 2000 20:50:10 EST Well, it's official. I have earned my wings and am now legal and able to fly in and out of one of New York's 2nd busiest airports... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/102.html 07 Nov 2000 10:59:36 EST I was prompted by a friend of mine to make public some of my strangest emails. I have added my reply. Enjoy... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/99.html 01 Aug 2000 09:38:29 EST Do you see fuzzy photographs on this website? Over-exposed? Under-exposed? Poor contrast? The problem may only be... http://www.hbutz.com/wwwboard/messages/86.html