Each semester I take team photos of our students at the beginning and end of the term. It's fun to do, the students need the photos for their project websites, and there is always a fun creative challenge to do something that is relevant to their project. Five Sided Square "Five Sided Square" [...]
I had a surprisingly small number of good pictures from SSC this year. Usually I'll have my camera with me all the time, and take some photo hikes as a reason to explore. In retrospect, this year seemed more active and social than usual for me. That's good news, right? Here's a few of the [...]
Bachelor Bat This lone bat has moved into a sun umbrella in our backyard. This is one of the large umbrellas used for shade that cranks open and shut. Last week I went to open it after a long rainy season and startled the bat that was inside it. I shut the umbrella [...]
100,000 miles on my Porsche. As a reward she's gone in for a full valve job and checkup. I plan to see the odo roll over again.
Continuing on my theme of analyzing color in animated films, here is Kung Fu Panda with some extra rows. The top row is a slit scan of the entire movie. The next three rows are hue, saturation and lightness (HSL) of the film. They are generated by analyzing each full frame of the [...]
I was in St. Louis two weeks ago visiting my son and speaking to a class at Washington University on entrepreneurship. We did a bit of sightseeing and went to the Arch. It's a challenge to photograph an iconic monument in a unique way - a quick search on Flickr will reveal over 83,000 photos [...]
The annual pilgrimage to NAMM has passed on by, my favorite pix have been up on Flickr for a couple weeks, and now finally the website gets them. It was especially fun noticing Alan Parsons on the exhibit floor selling his new "Art & Science of Sound Recording" DVD set. If you want to meet [...]
Ironically, I saw this recipe on TV while I was working out at the gym. Just a few easy steps! Fry up a batch of breakfast sausage. Skewer them. Dip them in waffle batter. Deep fry. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Dip in syrup. Yum.
Kevin posed for me on Christmas as I was trying out my new 28" Westcott Apollo softbox. There are four pictures from the series up on Flickr, I included two here. In the first one, above, I tried something new with the cropping. I used a square aspect ratio, and put Kevin's right [...]
This is me on Christmas when I was 3 1/2 with my first car - a rear engine topless sporty model. I have vague memories of this fantastic vehicle, but I am sure that the early impressions from this experience branded me for life. Years later, as an adult, I pined for a Porsche 911 [...]
