Dave Bullock - Photographer
Welcome to the photography portfolio of Dave Bullock. Apart from being an engineering leader, Dave is a talented photographer with a passion for capturing the essence of the world around him. Since childhood, he has been immersed in the world of photography, learning the ropes from his mother, artist, and photographer Rhoda G Bullock. He grew up developing black and white film in her darkroom and playing with her cameras, which ignited his love for photography.
In 1999, Dave transitioned to digital photography and has been capturing pixels ever since. He acquired his first DSLR, a Canon 20D, in 2005, and a few years later started shooting professionally for WIRED News. Since then, he has shot over 150 articles and galleries for WIRED, as well as had his work featured on CNN, NPR, the Financial Times, and numerous other online and print publications.
Dave now exclusively shoots photos to express his artistic creativity and capture imagery of the world around him.
Recently, Dave uploaded his entire archive of photos for you to peruse and enjoy. He wrote about the process he uses to categorize them using ML, how he ranks them using AI/ML Scores from Apple and how he uses Generative AI to detect the subject and write captions for each image.
Photo Categories
Dave’s photos can be explored through many indexes and collections. Every collection can be viewed either by overall Apple AI/ML Score or by date. You will also find this data on the individual photo pages. Here is a list of the categories:
- Albums - Photo albums extracted from the folders Dave uses to organize his photos on his hard drive
- Years / Months / Dates - Chronologically organized
- Cameras and Lenses - Grouped by camera and lens type, extracted from photo metadata
- Celebrities - Detected celebrities (note these aren’t always super accurate)
- Tags - Keywords that AI/ML has detected in each photos
- People - People I have tagged in iPhoto that Apple’s ML has found in various photos.
- Locations**: Countries / States / Cities / Neighborhoods / Places / Venues / Venue Types** - Reverse Geo-coded data extracted from Apple Photos.
- Scores - Apple Photos hidden scores they use to judge your photos
- All - Custom score Dave Bullock made that combines, weights, and averages about 15 of the scores below
- Low Light
- Overall
- Pleasant Pattern
- Well Framed Subject
- Tastefully Blurred
- Curation
- Sharply Focused Subject
- Immersiveness
- Interesting Subject
- Interaction
- Behavioral
- Well Chosen Subject
- Well Timed Shot
- Lively Color
- Pleasant Perspective
- Pleasant Composition
- Pleasant Lighting
- Pleasant Symmetry
- Pleasant Post Processing
- Pleasant Reflection
- Harmonious Color
- Pleasant Camera Tilt
- Failure
- Intrusive Object Presense
- Noise
Publications
Dave's work has been featured in numerous publications. You can view a selection of Dave Bullock’s photo publication tear sheets here. Some of the publications he’s been featured in include:
- Wired
- Los Angeles Downtown News
- Future Music Magazine (UK)
- SZ Wissen (Germany)
- Colorlines
- Nuts and Volts
- The Oregonian
- Boingboing
- Laughing Squid
- Makezine
- MIT Technology Review
- New American Media
- CNN
- NPR
- Consumerist
- Curbed
- LAist
- Metroblogging Los Angeles
- LA Observed
- LA Times
- Forbes
- ReadFive
- Financial Times
- The Hollywood Reporter
WIRED Articles/Galleries
Dave's impressive portfolio with WIRED includes the following articles and galleries:
- Coachella 2011: Kanye West, Arcade Fire and the Creepiest Singing Robot Ever
- Olympus PEN E-PL2: Easy-to-Use, Interchangeable-Lens Shooter
- Gallery: The World’s Most Extreme Hacking Contest
- Star on Earth: Astronomer Geoff Marcy
- DEFCON Badge Has Secret Society Easter Egg
- Gallery: The Art and Science of BioPrinting
- Gallery: Caltech's Solar-Powered Cinema
- Olympus PEN E-P2: Retro, Refined, and Easy to Use
- DEFCON, Day 1: No Easy Hacks, But New Warnings on ATM Security
- Inside the World’s Most Hostile Network
- DEFCON 17 Mystery Challenge: Unscramble These Ciphertexts
- Hacking the DEFCON 17 Badges
- Feds Push for Tracking Cell Phones
- Researchers Open Electronic Locks With “Molecular Jiggling”
- Open Sesame: Hacking RFID Payment Cards Made Easy
- DEFCON Badge Hacked
- Researchers Hack DNS Server Using Text Messages
- Mars Rover Begins Mission on the Red Planet
- Gallery: SpaceX's New Rocket Test Flight
- Gallery: New Laser Shines Brightest Light Ever Recorded
- World's Fastest Camera Captures 4.4 Trillion Frames Per Second
- Coachella in Pictures: Hot Bands and Cool Fans - Underwire - 4/21/09
- Canon 5D Mark II Review: Wired.com - Reviews - 12/29/08
- Microscope Adapts Cell Phone Camera for Disease Diagnosis - Discoveries - 12/20/08
- Plasmonic Detector Could Sharpen Cell Phone Images - Discoveries - 12/1/08
- New X-Ray Tape Lets Researchers See Inside Objects - Discoveries - 10/22/08
- Gear We Love: Submission Technology by Company - Gear - 10/9/08
- New Microscope-on-a-Chip Draws Images With Light - Discoveries - 10/13/08
- First Photograph of a Molecule's Shadow - Discoveries - 9/5/08
- DEFCON: Hacking Underground - Security - 8/12/08
- The Defcon 16 Media Server Is Live - 27B Stroke 6 - 8/11/08
- A First-Ever Look Inside Building 40 at Google HQ - 27B Stroke 6 - 8/10/08
- EFF to Appeal Ruling on Blogger's Confidential Sources - 27B Stroke 6 - 8/10/08
- Medeco Locks Cracked Open at Defcon - 27B Stroke 6 - 8/8/08
- E-Passports Cracked at Defcon - 27B Stroke 6 - 8/8/08
- French Reporter Goes Undercover With Scientology - 27B Stroke 6 - 8/7/08
- Exclusive: Defcon's Badge Has Secret Backdoor for Hackers (8/5/08)
- Nano Letters: The Tiny Technology That Will Change the World (7/19/08)
- Inside Virgin Galactic's Plans to Build a Space Tourism Business (7/13/08)
- LIGO: The Search for Gravitational Waves (7/12/08)
- Nanotech Takes Aim at Cancer (6/5/08)
- NASA Broadcasting Phoenix Mars Landing (5/25/08)
- Touchdown! First Images From Mars Polar Lander! (5/25/08)
- Phoenix Sends First Pictures From Mars (5/25/08)
- Podcast: Mission to Mars (5/25/08)
- Podcast: NASA Prepares to Launch Phoenix Mars Lander (5/23/08)
- JPL's Goldstone: The Little Antenna That Could (5/22/08)
- Mars Exploration Rovers: Spirit and Opportunity (5/20/08)
- Glass and Metal Nanocomposites: Materials of the Future (5/12/08)
- Coachella: Sunday Photos
- Coachella: Saturday Photos Part 2
- Coachella: Saturday Photos Part 1
- Coachella: Portishead, Kraftwerk, Death Cab and More
- Coachella: Saturday Photos Part 3
- Coachella: Aphex Twin, M.I.A., Battles and More
- Coachella: The Best Sets From Day Two
- Plasma: Fourth State of Matter (4/17/08)
- Iraq's Medical Emergency (3/31/2008)
- Inside the Internet Archive (3/19/2008)
- Highlights From Etech 2008 (3/6/2008)
- Quantum Storage: Beyond 1s and 0s (3/5/2008)
- Inside One Wilshire, the Telecom Hub of the Pacific Rim (3/3/2008)
- The World's Largest Atom Smasher (2/18/2008)
- Nanotech Takes on Cancer (2/26/2008)
- Best of PMA 2008 (2/4/2008)
- JVC's High-Def Camcorder (2/3/2008)
- WTF at PMA: The Bling Edition (2/3/2008)
- PMA: The Automagic Edition (2/3/2008)
- Biophysics: Seeing the Cell in a New Light (2/2/2008)
- Boda's Wedding Photography Gear (2/2/2008)
- GE's Digicam Future (2/2/2008)
- The Latest and Greatest From PMA 2008 (2/1/2008)
- Inkjet Cartridges Go Green (2/1/2008)
- PMA08: New Lens from Sigma and Tamron - 2/1/2008
- PMA08: Sexy Wacom Tablets - 2/1/2008
- Gallery: SPAWAR - 1/31/2008
- Gallery: Sewage Plant's Beauty Revealed in Stunning Photos - 1/25/2008
- Gallery: NAMM Unveils New Music Gear - 1/24/2008
- Gallery: Making Bombs Safer - 1/18/2008
- Gallery: Inside Homeland Security's War Room - 1/18/2008
- Gallery: Electric Cars That Will Blow Your Mind - 12/10/2007
- Gallery: Images of a Black Hole - 12/6/2007
- LA Auto Show: Hottest Cars of the Future - 11/19/2007
- 4-Ton Transformer is a Mech-Head's Dream - 11/17/2007
- Nissan's GT-R is Here to Conquer Supercars - 11/16/2007
- The Autopia WTF?!: NASCAR Invades Hollywood - 11/16/2007
- Gallery: The World's Fastest Supercomputer - 11/16/2007
- Gallery: Norton's Stellar Images of the Universe - 11/7/2007
- Gallery: Space-Age Medicine - 11/2/2007
- Inside The Wired Living Home - 11/5/2007
- Nextfest 2007: The Future That's Already Here (9/18/2007)
- Buzz Aldrin Headed Back to Space? (9/13/2007)
- Lunar Rover Maker Aims to Put Robots on Moon (9/13/2007)
- Lock Picking Goes Legit, Courtesy of Medeco (8/9/2007)
- I Married a Federal Agent (8/8/2007)
- Jennalynn, a 12-Year-Old and The SuperSpammer (8/5/2007)
- Open Sesame: Access Cards, Fobs Easily Hacked (8/4/2007)
- Media Mole at DEFCON: Fake Press Passes (8/3/2007)
- Badge Hack at DEFCON (8/3/2007)
- NASA Preview: Getting High on Green Propulsion (5/23/08)
- Inside JPL's Goldstone Facility, Where Space Telescopes Talk to Earth (5/22/08)
- Wired Science's Mars Landing Coverage (5/20/08)
- Glass-Metal Sculptures Give Tinkerers New Material to Melt (5/12/08)
- Coachella: Sunday Photos
- Coachella: Friday Photos
- Coachella: Saturday Photos, Part 1
- Coachella: Portishead, Prince, Roger Waters and More
- Coachella: Saturday Photos, Part 2
- Plasma (4/17/08)
- Iraq Medical (3/31/2008)
- Internet Archive (3/19/2008)
- ETech (3/6/2008)
- Quantum Storage (3/5/2008)
- One Wilshire (3/3/2008)
- Nanotech (2/26/2008)
- PMA Final (2/4/2008)
- JVC High Def Camcorder (2/3/2008)
- Bling for Your Camera (2/3/2008)
- Automagic Camera (2/3/2008)
- Biophysics (2/2/2008)
- Boda Lens Bags (2/2/2008)
- GE Digicams (2/2/2008)
- PMA (2/1/2008)
- Inkjet Cartridges (2/1/2008)
- New Lens System (2/1/2008)
- Wacom Tablet (2/1/2008)
- SPAWAR (1/31/2008)
- Sewage Treatment Plant Photos From Wired.com - 1/25/2008
- The Best of NAMM 2008 - 1/24/2008
- When Bombs Explode - 1/18/2008
- Inside Homeland Security's Tech Arsenal - 1/18/2008
- Electric Cars That Are Just Plugged In - 12/10/2007
- Spectacular Photos of Black Holes - 12/6/2007
- Nissan GT-R Unveiled in L.A. - 11/19/2007
- 4-Ton Transformer Costume Actually Transforms - 11/17/2007
- Nissan's GT-R Supercar Is Here, and It's Hot - 11/16/2007
- Autopia WTF: The $200,000 Electric Sports Car - 11/16/2007
- IBM's Supercomputer Will Blow Your Mind - 11/16/2007
- Glow-in-the-Dark Space Photos from Norton Telescope - 11/7/2007
- Astro-Ecstasy: Space Junkies On Overdrive - 11/2/2007
- Inside the Wired Rave Awards: The Best Party in Manhattan - 11/5/2007
- Wired NextFest: 5 Must-See Inventions - 9/18/2007
- Buzz Aldrin Headlines New Space Travel Symposium - 9/13/2007
- NASA's Lunar Rover Prototype Is Up for Grabs
- Medeco Locks Opened With Plastic Keys - Security - Wired (8/9/2007)
- I Married a Fed - 27B Stroke 6 (8/8/2007)
- Jennalynn, a 12-Year-Old Hacker, Tells Her Story - 27B Stroke 6 (8/5/2007)
- Open Sesame: Access Control Gone Wild - 27B Stroke 6 (8/4/2007)
- Media Mole at DEFCON - 27B Stroke 6 (8/3/2007)
- Badge Hack at DEFCON - 27B Stroke 6 (8/3/2007)