School starts next week for all of us and our floors at home are getting refinished; both great reasons to head out for an (almost) last trip of the summer. We had heard about how [...] I've been looking at some incredible food photography on flickr lately. I love to cook, and am doing a lot of BBQ'ing this summer as our kitchen gets remodeled, but many of my attempts at [...] A self portrait taken with my new Verizon Dare. A small Paper Wasp nest came to life under our stairs recently. Probably about 20 wasps live there (for the moment), and I was able to get my camera right in their little faces early [...] Me, at the age of one and a half. This was taken in March or April of that year, so it is NOT a Halloween costume. Other than my lingering fear of clowns (coulorphobia), this [...] During my year of intense photography I was only questioned five times. After the first time I learned what my rights were and now carry around this sheet in my camera bag. Other good resources: [...] We were eating dinner outside the other evening and were raided by about a dozen yellowjackets. While shooing them away I shot a few pictures of one of them chewing off a bit of meat [...] This was incredibly hard to do. Sarah asked me what my top ten pictures were and I felt compelled to figure it out. But here they are in chronological order: Bunny Goes Flying (7/18/07) - [...] I just dug through Lightroom and pulled out some numbers that I thought were interesting about my last twelve months of photography. From 7/9/07 through 7/8/08 I shot over 22,000 photos (averaging about 57 a [...] One year ago today I took on a "Picture A Day" project with the goal of shooting 366 (leap year!) reasonably good pictures and posting them for the world to see. On Monday I finished [...]Winding Down Summer
Dinner's On!
Another New Toy
Feeding Time
My Fear of Clowns Is Not Irrational
Photographers’ Rights
Yellowjackets
My APAD Top 10
22,000 Photos, and other Stats
A Picture A Day – DONE!