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Something fun to do with your five-year-old

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Or four-year-old, or six-year-old, or… well, you get the picture. Being somewhat bananas about photography (has anyone noticed that I call myself the “photo-chimp”?), a good way to spend time with two of my favorite things is to go on a photowalk with my daughter. She enjoys it, I enjoy it, we both end up with pretty good photos.

But then, what? In my daughter’s case, she’s seen plenty of photos printed out large. She wants prints too. But she’s small, and quality isn’t really a concern yet.

The answer? print out some 4×6″ pictures for her. But, put two pictures on each photo, sized to 3×4″. Print & get home, and you’ll end up with unusually-but-perfectly-sized photos for a smaller person!

Prints in the hands of a five-year-old

Prints in the hands of a five-year-old

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The places I’ve been

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

and the things I’ve seen:

Dolphinscape

Dolphinscape

The last two weeks of posting were done remotely, and planned in advance.  Because I was doing this – diving off the Kona coast, with dolphins…

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Change in Website Trends

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

A Photo Editor popped up on my radar again.  Seems this happens weekly.  This time it was just a quote, about how blogs will drive more business to photographers than websites.

This is certainly true, if not a bit obvious to many of us.  And as I alluded to in a comment there, it’s not a black-and-white cutoff: static pages are fine for static information.  Reference sheets, historicals – all good.  But the freshness of a blog?  Static sites can’t compete.

Something I’ve noticed, though – as the owner of my own business where I provide a certain amount of web-based services: a lot of my recent work has involved setting up blogs.  Not just for business clients, but for personal uses as well.

The future is here, which means it’s passé.  What next?

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On Cats and Dogs

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Completely unrelated to anything photography, other than the source. A commenter on a lovely young lady’s photostream pointed out the difference between cats and dogs (in response to the idea of cats having delusions of grandeur):

if dogs were 5 times their size, they’d still lick us.
if cats were 5 times their size, they’d eat us.
it’s not so much delusion as a problem of proportion (but then that’s exactly a delusion of granduer)

I found the observation both witty and likely accurate.

Check out her pics – she’s doing some interesting things with self portraits!

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How to Eat Vegemite…

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

…or Marmite, or whatever yeasty variant happens to be your favorite. In keeping with the entertainment that some members of my family had with making and eating food that, at least on the surface appears pretty nasty, I’ve decided that I’m going to learn to like Vegemite this year.  Call it a New Year’s resolution, if you will.

Keep in mind that before I started this, I had only ever eaten Vegemite once, in a little packet not unlike a jam packet you might find at Denny’s.  Not knowing what I was doing, I took the entire thing and smeared it over a small piece of bread – as if it were peanut butter.  Then I took my first ever bite of the stuff.

That was nearly ten years ago.  I’m still traumatized. Click to continue »

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A bite of fool’s gold

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Just a bite, though:

Fool's Gold bite

Fool's Gold bite - see the glistening sugars and oil!

This is one of the final few bites of the loaf, the next day.  Look closely & you’ll see it in all of its glory!

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Fool’s Gold

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

OK, this is a bit unusual for this blog but I wanted to put this out there where everyone could see it – friends, family, strangers… It’s all here, just for you!  Fool’s Gold – or rather, Fool’s Gold Loaf.  The ingredients and steps that you see below were performed on the 31st, as a late-night snack for our New Year’s festivities.

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Staring at Goats

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Completely off topic: Jason watched THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS.  His comment:

“[I would like to] point out that Ewan McGregor has finally played a Jedi warrior in a good movie”

Zing!

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An image from Humpy’s Oktoberfest

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Just to share what Humpy’s looks like when the beer is flowing:

The Crowd at Humpy's

The Crowd at Humpy's

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Oktober

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

My favorite holiday of the year is Oktoberfest.  Mostly because I can eat & drink for nearly a month and I won’t be accused of being a pig.  This is legitimate reason enough, I feel.

However, I only really do one event: Oktoberfest at Humpy’s.  For two Sundays, the Alaska Blaskapelles toot their horns while you wend your way through a 5-course meal. With each course paired with a beer, and interspersed with hollering, hooting, and a symphony of other loud revelry.

This year’s event marks our 5th in a row, I believe. Click to continue »

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