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I really like the Chicago Botanic Garden.  Its relatively close to the house and full of interesting photo subjects.  Yesterday I had some free time so I headed down there for the evening.  The weather was perfect, sunny and warm.  Then I got there, and it wasn’t.  Sunny anyway.  About twenty minutes after I showed […]

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I’m not one for new year’s resolutions or big todos on New Year’s.  Marking life by 365 day increments always seemed a little silly to me.  But it was about this time last year that I got my Nikon D80.  That camera marked a start ot a new year with a new hobby and so […]

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I took a wonderful trip to the northwest this summer.  I’m finally getting around to editing most of the pictures from the trip, and I have a couple I wanted to share.  For those interested in such things all the EXIF data is on Flickr, just click thru.

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I used to get annoyed on April Fool’s Day. I’m pretty lighthearted and always up for a good prank, but the fact that the jokes all came on the same day and never caught me off guard was well, boring.
The web has changed all that though. Now I’m excited to see what elaborate stories […]

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I’ve been up for a long time, I’ve been doing a lot of driving, and a lot of standing ot in the cold. Every bit of it has been worth it. I just got back from a great day in Wisconsin’s Driftless Area. I’m ready to go to bed, but I wanted […]

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I read a few photography focused blogs, and of late many of them ahve been mentioning hte “You Suck at Photoshop” series. Its crude humor to be sure, but there is some good stuff to be learned in there, and its VERY funny. I’m not going to link to it, frankly because I […]

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I’ve been fooling with PicLens today. My recent foray into photography has caused me to up my consumption of photographs. I’ve been toying with a way efficiently subscribe to photostreams in flickr, picasa and the like. PicLens will most certainly be the method of choice for viewing these photos.
Now if I can […]

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I took this picture at the mission in Solvang, CA.

Its too bad I didn’t have a Tripod with me. I ended up having to take this picture by putting the camera on a concrete post to stabilize it long enough to take the shot. From an effect standpoint this picture came out wonderfully. […]

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I’m sure that these pages will see their fair share of whining. I’m a fairly realistic, if not cynical guy. I like seeing the world from a gloomy perspective. Mostly its a front though. I have a loving family, a wonderful wife, and all the things that make it impossible not […]

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