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Playful Portraits

This past week Milton hosted a Valentine’s evening dance featuring the Glenn Miller Orchestra. I’d been asked to make portraits for the couples, which I did. It was my first “real” portrait shoot and I’m pretty happy with the way it went. Several students were helping get the room set up when I arrived, so […]

Resolutions and Goals

A Photo Every Day – that’s what I set the goal at about a month ago. The real goal, of course, is not to have 365 useless images at the end of the year. It’s to improve as a photographer through practice and feedback. I’ve missed a couple of days, but I’m sticking with it. […]

Useful Flickr Shortcuts

For Flickr users, here are some URLs that are useful that I’ve found in the FAQs and/or forums: Recent Comments on your photos, and Comments you’ve left on others’ photos. Your recent photos, by date taken: a List, the Calendar. Sponsor me with a gift Flickr Pro Account I especially like that last one.

A Friendly Horse

I’ve passed this horse just about every weekday morning, usually before the sun comes up. I look at where the sun’ll be rising and think “someday I’ve got to come by here a little later when the pasture’s nicely lit.” Today was the day. It’s hard to get a picture of a friendly horse. There […]

Accidents and Emergence

I had barely started Steven Johnson‘s 2001 book Emergence last night – indeed I was still in the first two dozen or so pages – when the TV show my wife was watching caught my ear. The Screen Actors Guild awards show was showing clips from Crash and giving a short description of it’s premise. […]

Two Faces

Two photos from this weekend’s band fund-raiser, an all night Rock-A-Thon. click on either for a larger version Neither are the greatest portrait in the world, but it was somewhere around 2am in a high school cafeteria. More pictures can be seen here.

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