• I just had a cuscus on my head. #
• Cuscus on my head! http://t.co/rZhAmDOa #
• Gates RED Epic-X, late night Singapore layover @ ScubaCam http://t.co/e6HkzghJ #
• @alpow11 I arrived late tonight and leave for the airport at 5am—too bad! next time? :) #
• A food-like substance http://t.co/IE43VJBT #
• It looks like Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 fixed the Internet Sharing problem. Works, after update. #
• Anyone have suggestions for a modern front door intercom / video / buzz-in system for a 4-unit bldg? What is the Nest for door security? ;) #
• A PNG ferry sank yesterday—so sad. http://t.co/yoeiUP1x We left the Eastern Fields early to avoid the storms. High winds and huge swells. #
• @transniugini Hope all is well with you, too. I did a land visit with you in '05-it was incredible: http://t.co/6XAz8caq #
• Strong tailwinds on the way back made for an 8-hr flight from Narita to SFO. The plane's map said we were going as fast as 720 mph (!). #
• Tip: Dragging 5 mounted remote volumes to a new Mail.app message does bad things. #
• @blam have a great time! My cough cost me 75% I my dives. :( #
• Flute version of Brandenburg concerto. Kill me now. #
• "I sent my first Facebook Tweet!" -Pam #
• @blam Nope. Backscatter in Monterey. Or, you can borrow my 7D housing, if you have a 7D (I don't remember). #
• Look who we bumped into! @ Macy's http://t.co/UAGKNxKf #
• Public voting is open for Wetpixel's Picture of the Year 2011. No registration necessary to vote. Enjoy the pictures! http://t.co/6SIDsWdb #
• Yuck @ Spices!! ???1 ???? http://t.co/vmsUZM51 #
• @ArneKuilman yeah–wish there were a better (legal) way! #
• @davidkosmos enjoy! Post pictures on Wetpixel. :) cc @innulia #
• @macaby sure! how is Feb 24? What would you like me to talk about? #
• @indokerri SHIT. #
• Mike deGruy (a personal friend), died in a helicopter crash yesterday. Devastating loss to the community. http://t.co/yiiyNshG #
• @indokerri Devastating. #
• @blam Bummer. Well, the housing loan offer is always there for you. #
• Classic SF gate (Mission district) http://t.co/ajU1lbZG #
• Victorians with outhouse http://t.co/rGtwyBK0 #
• End of an era @ 16th St. Mission BART Station http://t.co/HM6jS6U2 #
• Mission wandering @ Candy Store Collective http://t.co/FL66sobs #
• Tree planter grate in the Mission http://t.co/Od7ZG5IX #
• Tiger and shark mural, Mission District SF http://t.co/cthTKjWL #
• Shark detail in mural http://t.co/K7ic85a3 #
• If you don't have some sort of status on SFO-BOS, you aren't getting a roller bag on the plane! #

My 4-week cough turned into a 6-week cough, so I only did 3-4 dives in the Eastern Fields. It was extremely frustrating, but I enjoyed being out on the ocean with a great group of people. Here’s the video slideshow I made for the group:

Music selection by kozyndan. End credits by me and Dan.

Tony Wu (my co-trip leader) has posted a fantastic write-up of the trip, and a Wetpixel thread is tracking more pictures and experiences.

As always, you can see the expeditions we run over at Wetpixel: http://wetpixel.com/expeditions

“All for a Bowl of Soup” is the most no-nonsense piece I’ve seen about the global shark finning problem. It combines facts with awe-inspiring footage of thousands of shark fins being pulled into a single fisheries facility in a single day.

The show features my friend, Shawn Heinrichs, and a significant amount of his investigative footage showing huge numbers of shark fins in processing facilities, as well as footage of a live, finned shark suffocating to death. It also includes about a minute of my shark footage shot in the wild.

“All for a Bowl of Soup” hatched as a plan between me and Derek Reich, a freelance cameraman who does a lot of work with HDNet. We had been talking about it for awhile, but finally hashed out a proposal when we happened to both be stranded in New York during Hurricane Irene last year.

If you have half an hour to spare, please download and watch “All for a Bowl of Soup” from iTunes. If you are moved by the piece, please donate to Shark Savers—my conservation organization of choice—or to your chosen shark conservation organization, and spread the word!¹

• @nobledesign Hi, Shelley. It was nice to meet you today! #
• @robinr Hi, Robin. It was very nice to meet you at #CES #LGS #
• Video of @Lytro winning CES 2012's Last Gadget Standing: http://t.co/bZCYL4Vt #
• I love SFO International. 5 mins after arriving, I am checked in. #
• Survival tools for the coming week (desperate!) @ San Francisco International Airport (SFO) http://t.co/9kEl2QzZ #
• Highly entertained by the older Asian TSA agent who is greeting everyone: "How YOU doin'?" #
• @adamnash what a coincidence? :) #
• I've just removed Yahoo IM and MSN from Adium. Never use them. Still on AIM for iChat / screen sharing, though… #
• RT @atomicphoto: Terrifying! Photographer swims alongside 23-foot anaconda http://t.co/m8bDHmzQ #
• Wetpixel is on strike today in support of anti-SOPA efforts. Back online at 8pm PST. http://t.co/RD8drYFZ #
• Image Wizards aluminum prints: 40% off New Year special with code NYBOGO40 http://t.co/EVxVQDJG #
• Finished "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea." It is both fascinating and sad. Highly recommended. http://t.co/TAPEfiZw #
• "Everything you think you know about this camera, you don't." Scott Bourne talks about @Lytro in Photofocus podcast http://t.co/4zvQII9z #
• RT @inafried: Updated — Not a Kodak Moment: Legendary Camera Maker Files for Bankruptcy Protection http://t.co/eXfAlGDS #
• I've been trying to get a cab in Singapore for 40 minutes. #fail #
• @sllife We've called a few different cab companies. Waited on hold forever, or told that there are no cabs. #
• Classy rope handle for my video rig @ ScubaCam http://t.co/BYTiHsFp #
• RT @TechCrunch: SOPA Protests Sway Congress: 31 Opponents Yesterday, 122 Now http://t.co/CesbVJMB by @joshconstine #
• Special thanks to David, Sanah, and everyone else at Scubacam in Singapore. Helpful, knowledgeable & super nice! http://t.co/UWGdthLH #
• Gates Deep (RED) Epic in the house! @ ScubaCam http://t.co/20tYAi3N #
• Big and small: Gates Deep Red Epic housing, and Lytro cameras @ ScubaCam http://t.co/kGLd3ikd #
• Big and small: Gates Deep Red Epic and Lytro cameras @ ScubaCam http://t.co/DL7fueyA #
• Thanks, Singapore friends, for making my (short) stay here fun, despite my nasty cough! Headed out to PNG shortly… #

• Bumped into @docpop this morning during a meeting with @koci at Blue Bottle! #
• Packing up for CES. See you there! @lytro #
• Lightroom 4 beta is available as a free download from Adobe: http://t.co/sZX1AO3J #
• Hello, Vegas. #ces http://t.co/sGodR6pD #
• Fuji announces X-Pro1, it's first interchangeable-lens mirrorless cam. Hope autofocus works! http://t.co/GAy3KP27 #
• Smokers everywhere. Not used to it! #
• An inordinate amount of time at #ces is spent waiting for things like elevators, coffee, cabs, & shuttles. #
• Hanging out with Chad and Pete at the Verge's CES HQ #ces @ The Verge CES HQ http://t.co/EDiaJxWf #
• Lots of glasses-free 3D displays (big and small) at #ces Some look good! #
• All of my #ces comm is via SMS and Twitter. Poor AT&T people, who couldn't get data here to save their lives… #
• @fleander hey Felix. Yep–here, but in back to back meetings until I leave. :( are you on the show floor now? #
• Eat at #ces die sooner http://t.co/LImFHsRE #
• The @verge let me hold a RED Scarlet #ces @ The Verge CES HQ http://t.co/1ac6kjm4 #
• @ScottBourne it was great to meet you today! @lytro #
• Crowded! #ces @ 2012 CES Venue: LVCC Grand Lobby http://t.co/ViJPAJx8 #
• #MashBash Lytro step and repeat is done! #
• I gave an interview with Paul at the @verge about @lytro. It's already online! http://t.co/45zfCPGA #
• Good morning, Las Vegas #ces @ Las Vegas Hilton http://t.co/FSPVlmN8 #
• Hello, friends. We need your help: vote for Lytro for CES gadget contest before 10am! http://t.co/t0gd1049 #
• Crowd is ready for #ces Last Gadget Standing! @ Last Gadget Standing http://t.co/nEWl56wk #
• @lytro won the audience vote at #ces last gadget standing! #
• @lytro won the audience award at #ces last gadget standing. Congrats, Lytro! #
• Finally read @ScottBourne's @Lytro write-up. He totally gets it. http://t.co/NRNuMa2u #
• @HzOinside sounds like fun, but I don't have any of my underwater gear with me, and am en route home… #
• @voodoomagic5 love the GoPro hero2. Need flat port for sharp UW images. No replacement for slr, though. Get both? :) #
• @Photojojo we still have a few folks at #ces Find them! @lytro @Kirasw @1practicalgal #
• Just enabled iMessage on iOS. Realize that it was off, this entire time! (by default) #
• Video of @lytro winning the #ces 2012 Last Gadget Standing award! Thanks, Jason. http://t.co/OMOCa0oh #
• Eric Cheng: powered by cough drops. #
• @blam I'll be in Singapore next week, so I have a week to recover again. :) #
• The Dark Room « BlueSphereMedia http://t.co/9ye8wnd3 (via Instapaper) #
• CES 2012: Lytro Photowalk: Digital Photography Review http://t.co/JzK3Phzw (via Instapaper) #
• I coughed, and something in my left side went POP. Now, it hurts. I'm getting old. #
• Hemispheres magazine on United flight cc: @lytro @ San Francisco International Airport (SFO) http://t.co/sQBqXs8R #
• Film canister through head makes devil mad http://t.co/0jwuPfUk #
• Alien! @ Flying Saucers Caffeine and Art http://t.co/b3MwM67U #
• Finished talk at #photoLA Great audience! #

• .:. Hiking in Big Sur – The HIkes: Sorted by Favorites .:. http://t.co/n0uu26iK (via Instapaper) #
• This keeps happening on my iPhone. Stop it! http://t.co/C6YSzvSx #
• At a Chinatown doctor. Cash co-pay only. #
• Wow. #paypal asks someone to destroy old violin after dispute. http://t.co/PjUibsft #
• Let the sleeplessness commence! #
• Lytro made finals in the Crunchies Awards! Please vote for us—takes 5 sec, and no account needed. Thank you. :) http://t.co/h4OMi0XV #
• @blam D4 looks like a solid, workhorse camera for photojournalists. Nothing notable, though. Missed chance to do something cool with video. #
• @scuttlefish Well, there are cheapie cameras that do 1080/60p (terrible quality); fps is only one metric. :) #
• CalAcad's guest label ball. Not as big as Facebook's. :) http://t.co/Wr99c9VR #
• I added 10 more pictures to my 500px gallery (from the recent Indonesia trip—you may have seen them). http://t.co/XnQ9k8Bv #
• SF dusk walk @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts http://t.co/2ZJmZQcS #

On December 8, 2001, I set up Greymatter and started using it to post online journal entries. On February 9, 2003, I migrated to Cafelog b2, which apparently made me quite happy. On January 18, 2006, I migrated from b2 to Wordpress, which was quite a bit of work.

Here is a table showing posting and commenting activity:¹

In the last couple of years, Twitter and Facebook (and now, Google+) have caused me to post here less and less frequently. I think I’m going to redesign echeng.com to be more of a hub for my photography work sometime during this coming year. This particular design here at echeng.com has been in place since February of 2003—I can’t believe it has lasted this long!

I went on a fun photowalk with Robert Scoble last Tuesday, where we gave him a chance to play with a pre-production Lytro Light Field Camera. Scoble posted a thoughtful summary of the photowalk and included a video interview of me, which you can see here in this post.

• http://t.co/6RpcQLlU "Awesome" accounts are 50% off today. Use code "boxingpixels". #
• I'm jumping ship from Flickr to 500px. Uploaded my first 10 pictures today. http://t.co/XnQ9k8Bv #
• @fleander Flickr hasn't changed in years, and there is too much daily-life photography there. I have Facebook for that… #
• @fleander No—the community is sufficiently different that I'm just going to start over. #
• @sandesh247 Yes, we do have an "everything in focus" mode. It's only been shown thus far in demos. #
• @fleander I'll keep my pro Flickr account—still get image licensing referrals from there, but I will likely stop posting pictures. #
• @salesforce @sfgoodwill FYI, SalesForce/SFGoodwill integration is broken. Can't record a material donation online (will do it manually). #
• Awesome rant about SOPA http://t.co/zZHofWNy #
• @salesforce SF Goodwill "record a material donation" throws a Salesforce error once you submit. #
• RT @BBCWorld: Anatomy of a shoot: Filming Frozen Planet's brinicle http://t.co/VPMzcp96 #
• Caltrain is nearly empty today http://t.co/eOhzn83m #
• Want to watch me blab about @lytro for 16 minutes, 40 seconds? Video (and photo walk) with @scobleizer http://t.co/Uqrv16SO #
• This is awesome. http://t.co/JnmG2xds and the Twitter fallout https://t.co/Q2wAYIlf followed by http://t.co/CrGsPav0 #
• @peteblois Appreciate the enthusiasm, but you can't process the source files without the desktop app; it wouldn't do any good. :) #
• Thanks @iFixit! iPhone clear back looks great. Have you seen the mod affect the camera, at all? Worried about the gap. http://t.co/CzMeS5uS #
• Decades later, a Cold War secret is revealed | http://t.co/sPV78uYY http://t.co/2zDGsp00 (via Instapaper) #
• @peteblois How do you view a RAW image from a current digital camera without a RAW converter? #
• @peteblois can't say much about what it will do until closer to ship date. But yes, it uses the whole light field. #
• @salesforce I went online to SFGoodwill and filled out the form for a material donation. I submitted and got Salesforce error. #
• @viennateng show tonight. Thanks, Michele & Erik, for saving seats! http://t.co/idkV5gav #
• @salesforce This has taken way too much time. We donated the old-fashioned way. The salesforce / goodwill integration was not a success. #
• @salesforce I think part of the problem is that the error message clearly says "Salesforce," which is why I went to you guys for support. #
• @salesforce I'll report the integration problem to SF Goodwill. Maybe no one uses their website. #
• When is the last time someone saw a sperm whale in Carmel? http://t.co/FUh8u19i #
• Festive model house http://t.co/kFz1W1u1 #
• Carmel window http://t.co/h4hm9BBm #
• "You can run but you cannot hide" coin being advertised on TV. Tacky. cc @adamnash #
• @adamnash yeah. It was terrible. Is this what tv is like all the time? First TV in months. #
• @adamnash or, I should say, first commercials in years #
• Morning piggy says hi http://t.co/HVfhvya5 #
• Happy new year, Euro, Asian and Australian friends! Still 8 hrs away here in CA. #
• I'm explaining geekdom to Pam. http://t.co/IEy5wzGq #
• Toasting the new year with hot fudge sundaes @ Flying Fish Grill http://t.co/LUjZDarw #
• Normal van payload? http://t.co/kKZ8Vmda #
• License plate guitar http://t.co/wGg0PqVV #
• America in Color from 1939-1943 http://t.co/cwn3O8mu (via Instapaper) #
• Northern CA coast on Jan 1: whales, bait balls, blue skies, 70 deg! http://t.co/CpKT81Bt #
• I AM SURROUNDED BY PLASTIC! #

• @jamesgmorgan They've got my direct mobile line. #
• Time to vote for @Lytro for CES Last Gadget Standing finalist! If you have time, please vote again. http://t.co/kHW7xqNH #
• My new Google+ profile features an animated tiger shark (from one of my pictures). Profile: http://t.co/3oVwj7Nk Video: http://t.co/yOPuV7b7 #
• 'tis the season to be stre-ssed. fa-la-la-la-la-la… la-la-la-la. #
• Huge headache. Being sick is a drag. #
• http://t.co/z2Ep8kvG posted a video with UW footage from GoPro Hero 2 w/BlurFix housing (so you can focus underwater). http://t.co/kd7JeCkR #
• Dear First Round Capital-funded companies. I feel for you. http://t.co/3TtTb3ug #
• Sourceforge is advertising Stuart Weitzman shoes to Pam (she's uploading documentation). She is very impressed that they know what she… #
• CrumplePop filters (like ToneGrade) are $39 instead of $75 this week via coupon code: http://t.co/pJ0TiDzh #
• Kernel panic! Oh well—I was trying to restart, anyway… #
• @Lytro employees featured in "Learning to Shoot Light Field" blog post: http://t.co/wTkhIntm #
• As a Mac user, I'm hesitant to install anything with an installer that is so ugly. #nvidia http://t.co/ZvPzcCvM #
• @committedphoto Thank you! #
• We now have foldable Lytro cameras in all three colors—perfect for Christmas ornaments, or for gift placeholders. http://t.co/xpvZVsa3 #
• Hoping for magical cures, but know that none exist. Rest+hydration. http://t.co/OhPYBifi #
• @Lytro living pictures can now be embedded in http://t.co/aJNwTto1 blogs! Send me links to your embeds. :) http://t.co/KdOfZywF #
• @freytagfilm Yes—received. We have been completely overwhelmed with emails from photographer and filmmakers. I'll send you a reply soon! #
• This cough sure is a great stomach workout. #
• @adamnash Is this backwards day? #
• I walked outside into the sunlight just now and realized that I hadn't seen it since Monday morning! #
• GoDaddy supports SOPA?? Glad I migrated to #Hover after their CEO shot that elephant. 10% off referral link for hover: http://t.co/mg00V4Do #
• Siri cannot understand me when I have a sore throat. #
• @shashachu Hmmm. Microdrives are old and are prone to failure. Never used a service, unfortunately, but have transplanted controller boards. #
• The Grinch is in Union Square, and some kid asked him, "Why didn't you steal Hanukkah?" #
• The light in San Francisco is great right now @ Yerba Buena Gardens http://t.co/fS3HzG4A #
• GoDaddy has lost over 72,000 domains this week due to its SOPA support. Awesome! http://t.co/Yo0H2IMd #
• Christmas eve afternoon stroll in SF http://t.co/seqnw6pp #
• @cohen #Go Daddy claimed to revert their stance on SOPA but refused to remove support from congressional records. #
• My cough is now blasting out at a frequency that is making something (glass) near my computer desk resonate beautifully. #
• How do I auto-block (in every sense of the word) everyone @fart has retweeted in the last 15 hours? cc @theremina #
• @thondeboer The honor is ours! :) cc @lytro #