Wow. November 2016 was the last post; a lot has happened since then! I would say the most significant thing was adding two kids, followed by buying a company, starting a company from scratch, and getting caught in the gears of life. Why Poindaxster? My name is Alex, but my aunts and grandmother called me Ax. And my pledge name for Phi Kappa Sigma ☠️ was Poindexter. Even though adopting...
What’s involved in making a Halloween Photoshop Composite?
Am I going to buy the Apple MacBook Pro or Microsoft Surface Studio for photography and video editing?
DJI’s gimbals on the Osmo and Phantom 4 work very well together producing seamless footage for incredibly smooth videos at 4K.
Buy Alex Snyder’s photography for your wall. Prints from Vermont, Galapagos, Virginia, Antarctica and many other places.
It is so exciting to see the UPS man when you know something new is in that brown box. Be careful when slicing that packing tape that you don't harm anything inside! And the excitement hits a new high when you see the retail packaging for the gear you just bought. You note how clean and blemish-free that it is and eagerly get ready to test things out. Photos taken and now it is time to...
Looking back at the camera bodies, lenses, bags, filters and general gear I used to shoot wildlife and landscapes on the Galapagos Islands.
Women are unfairly stereotyped as "bagoholics" while photographers are hoarding a closet full of old camera bags. Watch any photographer in a camera store and you'll see him eventually wonder into the bag section. I guess frequent travelers are constantly on the search for the best way to carry their luggage, but they also pale when compared to photographers. As a photographer, fairly...
The old blog axspot.wordpress.com has been active since 2008. Despite it's 8 years of service it is time to retire that freebie site. The main reason is control. Some old technology is no longer available to me because it was bought by some other company that no longer supports it, but I can't turn it off. The most annoying one is an email subscription service that was fantastic in 2008, but...