Rosie Perera

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New Beginnings

Rosie Perera Jun 4, 2010

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New Beginnings

I shot this with a wide open aperture to get the selective focus and the "impressionistic painting" effect, as some have called it. The term for the blurred background in such a photo is bokeh, from the Japanese word for blur or haze. It is a photo of a tree fern,...

Rosie Perera Mar 5, 2010

Technology in times of disaster

Our technology can make us more vulnerable in natural disasters, but it can also make us safer, as we develop new methods of prediction and better defenses.

Rosie Perera Dec 4, 2009

Whither Democracy 2.0?

Is technology opening the way to more informed, more engaged citizens, or simply enabling armchair activism and gentrification by opinion?

An Offering of Light

Rosie Perera Jan 18, 2008

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An Offering of Light

I caught this monk lighting the votive candles at San Miniato al Monte, in Florence, Italy, in preparation for a vespers service; I was able to shoot with available light by using ISO 1600.

Rosie Perera Mar 1, 2007 Things we love

Loving technology, loving God

A successful software engineer (turned Luddite, then back), Rosie Perera wonders if we’ve forgotten what the Apostle Paul might have said: “Technology is permissible—even good in many ways—but I will not be enslaved by it.”