Archive for December, 2006
- Patterns of Nature - December 30th, 2006
- CMPG Shoot — Brookside Gardens - December 30th, 2006
- Got To Be a Better Way - December 29th, 2006
- Abandonment - December 29th, 2006
- More From Maine - December 29th, 2006
- What the Duck? - December 29th, 2006
- Maine Pictures on Flickr - December 28th, 2006
- No Free Lunch … - December 28th, 2006
- What’s in My Bag? - December 27th, 2006
- Not Terribly Reassuring … - December 27th, 2006
- Fun Photo Hacks - December 26th, 2006
- Gledelig Jul - December 25th, 2006
- Five Ways to Better Photography - December 22nd, 2006
- An Interesting Merger - December 22nd, 2006
- Well, So Much for That - December 22nd, 2006
- More Photo Thoughts - December 21st, 2006
- The Trap - December 21st, 2006
- CMPG Meeting - December 20th, 2006
- Smokey update - December 17th, 2006
- this is donna’s result: - December 15th, 2006
- Me All Artsy-Fartsy - December 14th, 2006
- Big, Fat, Hairy Deal - December 14th, 2006
- Peace on Earth? - December 12th, 2006
- Who Had the Right of Way? - December 11th, 2006
- RIAA Moves to Stab Artists in Back - December 11th, 2006
- Another One Bites the Dust - December 9th, 2006
- Thank you, Comcast! - December 8th, 2006
- So Easy … - December 8th, 2006
- Proud of my nephew! - December 8th, 2006
- Women Who Play Cello … - December 7th, 2006
- Gallery Opening Makes Topix News Feed - December 5th, 2006
- Dark Music - December 5th, 2006
- From the Labyrinth - December 4th, 2006
- Timothy Edberg Open Studio Event - December 2nd, 2006
- CMPG Group Display at Border’s Books - December 1st, 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 - 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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here’s a (usually) funny photo-related comic strip:
Empty List
More can be had here.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Recycled cans can be made into airplanes, appliances, furniture and more.
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Here’s a site with a lot of fun camera hacks — all non-destructive and not permanent. It seems that no cameras were harmed in the preparation of this web site:
http://www.dennisonbertram.com/hackmaster/hack_index.htm
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Gledelig Jul — just a Norwegian’s way of saying “Happy Christmas”
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National Geographic Traveler suggests five ways to become a better photographer.
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[via dpReview]
Hoya, a very familiar name in the photographic industry (not least because they supply lens blanks to many manufacaturers) and Pentax have jointly today announced their intention to merge and become Hoya Pentax HD Corporation (actually Hoya are ‘merging’ Pentax into their business). This merger is due to be completed by October 1, 2007. [...]
Yesterday, I wrote about not falling pray to the lure of all that photographic goodness at the camera store. Last night, we went to Penn Camera, to look at and possibly purchase a macro lens for Donna. She ended up ordering a Tamron 90mm f/2.8 macro lens. In fairness, I did say that she probably [...]
It’s a slow day in TV-land. I’m waiting for some equipment to come in, so we can be ready to be hooked up to Verizon’s FiOS network. Otherwise, I’m poking ’round the ‘net and catching up on e-mails.
One thing that has come up on one of the photo lists I read is the topic of [...]
Donna and I each have Nikon D70s digital SLR cameras, and assortments of lenses. We each have the Nikkor 18-70mm “kit” lens, and Tamron 70-300mm zoom telephoto lenses. Additionally, I have a Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D lens, and a Sigma 28-135mm lens, left over from my “film” days. We also have, between us, an SB-800 flash [...]
Regular CMPG meeting. See http://www.cmpg.org for details.
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I took Smokey in for a weight-check and x-ray last Wednesday evening. His weight was indeed way down, this time to 10lbs-4oz. Not good for our once 16-6 big guy. Strangest thing — the mass in his chest and the fluid around his organs did not show up on the x-ray. The vet (not his [...]
oh, nooooooo!
What type of person do you attract?
Your Result: You attract geeks!
Your stunning intellect and love of sci-fi and video games allures the geeks like nothing else. Maybe it is the sparkle in your eye that makes them want to text you, who knows. Geeks make good partners, but tend to be arguementative. [...]
What type of person do you attract?
Your Result: You attract artsy people!
Those free spirited artists with great imaginations find you interesting. They are usually interesting themselves, so its not a bad thing, but they CAN be a bit wifty and choose odd goals. If you like life to always be a bit ‘different’ [...]
The USA Today reports that unemployment claims have dropped to their lowest level in two months. And, 47 states and territories actually posted increases in the jobless rate. I say, “who cares?!?” Tell me that unemployment claims have dropped to their lowest level in two years nationwide, and maybe I’ll be interested.
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PEACE ON EARTH: Lisa Jensen hung a Christmas wreath on the outside wall of her home in Pagosa Springs, Colo. The pine boughs were arranged into a peace sign because she “wanted to put a message of peace out there,” Jensen said. But Bob Kearns, the president of her homeowner’s association, ordered her to remove [...]
This seems pretty clear-cut to me, but then, I know the intersection in question really, really well. The last I remember, the law requires the driver on the secondary roadway (in this case, an exit ramp) to yield right-of-way, and in fact, stop at an inoperative traffic light, to allow the motorist on the primary [...]
In a not-so-surprising-to-me-move, the RIAA is now pushing to reduce royalties paid to artists when their music is downloaded for use in digital media. By the way, this would be a stab in the back to artists like Metalica that so fervently supported the RIAA’s efforts to squash download services like Napster.
The full story is [...]
Tonight, we’ll be removing another link from our “Blogs We Read” list — Burnham Down the House. Friend Will has decided that, effective tonight, he’s pulling the plug.
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I’ve never been particularly grateful for Comcast, but they’ve got ESPN2 on the lineup and that’s all I need to watch tonight’s Montana-UMass game & try to catch a glimpse of my nephew! YAY!!!!!!
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Via e-mail, from a member of the Army Reserve.
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This article is about the drum line my nephew plays in at the University.Â
He’s one of only 3 freshmen who’ve made the line in the past 5 years.Â
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… should not wear skirts. They tend to look like they’re giving birth to a Spruce tree!
And, while we’re at it, if they want a large, vibrating piece of wood between their legs, there are plenty of other, more pleasurable ways I can think of to get it there.
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An article printed in the DelMarVa Daily Times about my gallery opening the day after Thanksgiving has made the area topix.net newsfeed!
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Yesterday’s discussion of the “darkness” of John Dowland’s compositions led me to poke ’round the ‘net, looking for dark music. The search turned up a couple of interesting sites…
First is Fred’s Official Dark Site Index, where “you’ll find the links to the OFFICIAL sites of many dark-wave / gothic / electro / indus /… [...]
We brought home Sting’s new Songs From the Labyrinth CD last night, and I listened to it this morning while researching credit card processing systems. Interesting stuff (the music, not the credit card crap).
The CD features Sting and Edin Karamazov performing the works of John Dowland and Robert Johnson, composers during the Elizabethan period. Sting [...]
Timothy Edberg, professional nature photographer, will have an Open Studio to display and market his award-winning fine-art prints. The Open Studio will be at 6511 Homestake Dr. South, Bowie, MD, 20720, on Saturday December 2nd from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Edberg’s prints are in private, corporate, and university collections on three continents, [...]
CMPG members will be helping Border’s Books in the Columbia Crossing shopping center in Columbia celebrate the “grand re-opening” of their cafe.
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