Archive for December, 2006

  • Patterns of Nature - December 30th, 2006

    • We had a CMPG outing today at Brookside Gardens, in Wheaton. The folks there were nice enough to let us, as a group, come in an hour before opening time so that we could use our tripods in the conservatory (during regular hours, no tripods are allowed inside) and give us great access to the [...]

  • CMPG Shoot — Brookside Gardens - December 30th, 2006

    • CMPG - is hosting a Photo shoot at Brookside Gardens on Saturday, December 30th.
    The shoot will be held at the Brookside Gardens conservatory. The gardens will be in full Christmas bloom with HO trains running through the holiday blooms. If you’ve never been to their Christmas display, then you are in for a real treat. [...]

  • Got To Be a Better Way - December 29th, 2006

    • I’ve just got done “synchronizing” my digital image storage. Right now, that entails making sure that there are copies of every source image file on four separate drives across three computers. It takes hours. There’s got to be a better way to ensure that all this stuff is backed up that won’t break the already [...]

  • Abandonment - December 29th, 2006

    • I have been fooling around with things in Photoshop today. Some good things came out of it, like the Maine pictures being uploaded. But, I also was trying to work with some of the images I had scanned while at the gallery over the weekend. These were mostly 35mm slides and negatives, scanned at the [...]

  • More From Maine - December 29th, 2006

    • I’ve uploaded some more pictures from our Maine vacation. This one kind of reminds me of a picture I remember taking as a child, on a trip to Acadia National Park with my parents.
    That original picture was pretty terrible, I think, shot with a cheap plastic camera called Diana. The picture is but a [...]

  • What the Duck? - December 29th, 2006

    • Here’s a (usually) funny photo-related comic strip:
    Empty List
    More can be had here.
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  • Maine Pictures on Flickr - December 28th, 2006

    • I finally got around to uploading a few pictures from our Maine trip to my flickr site. There are only a few there so far, and probably none from the original postings here.
    Most of these are posted because I took them with my Tokina 12-24mm lens, and my friend Thom and I have been [...]

  • No Free Lunch … - December 28th, 2006

    • Or, video, for that matter.
    We received a mailer from Verizon the other day, pushing their FiOS system for TV. Some of you may remember that I’ve been pretty excited about the technology — and the chance to get away from Comcast. And, the price that Verizon’s advertising ($39.95 a month) is really enticing.
    Until you get [...]

  • What’s in My Bag? - December 27th, 2006

    • We made another trip to Penn this evening …
    My regular photo “kit” now includes the following:

    Nikon D70s body
    Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 zoom
    Tokina 12-24mm f/4 zoom
    Tamron 70-300mm f/4-5.6 zoom
    Nikon SB-800 flash
    Extra battery and CF cards
    Cokin filters and adapter rings for Tamron lenses
    B+W circular polarizer for Tokina 12-24mm zoom
    Lens and sensor cleaning supplies
    Bogen 3021N tripod with Bogen 488RC2 [...]

  • Not Terribly Reassuring … - December 27th, 2006

    • Recycled cans can be made into airplanes, appliances, furniture and more.
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