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Monday, May 20, 2013 12:30 AM

Pregnancy Photos

Tyla and I have attempted a few home photo sessions to capture her big beautiful belly. You might have seen some of them on Facebook, but I thought I’d post them here too. The due date is less than 3 weeks away!
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Friday, November 02, 2012 12:30 AM

Fun With Photo Editing

I took a couple series of photos at the corn maze when we were back in Indiana and edited them all together. I was going to use Photoshop and do it all by hand, but the Photo Fuze tool in Windows Live Photo Gallery (free download!) worked perfectly. The...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012 12:30 AM

Photographing Propeller Aircraft

For years I’ve seen big beautiful images of propeller aircraft and never realized how difficult they are to photograph. The photo below is the best example that I captured at Seafair this year. What’s so difficult? When taking a picture of a jet, you...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2012 12:30 AM

Seafair 2012

Every year Seattle hosts a multi-week event called Seafair. Navy ships come into port, there’s a large airshow including the Blue Angels, and the hydroplane boats race. This year I got the pleasure of watching the Blue Angels twice. On Friday, my division...
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Thursday, August 02, 2012 12:30 AM

Kerry Park Sunset

There’s a park up on Queen Anne Hill (where Frasier’s apartment would have been if it really existed!) called Kerry Park and it has a great view of Seattle and Mt. Rainier. If you’ve seen a skyline postcard of Seattle, this is probably...
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Friday, July 06, 2012 12:30 AM

Fireworks

Tyla and I had a great Independence Day. We spent the afternoon at her family’s house enjoying delicious food and a new game called Dominion. (Any fans out there?) Then later in the evening we headed up to Monroe where fireworks are legal. Tyla and I...
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Friday, April 20, 2012 12:30 AM

Pan Tilt Mount for Canon T2i

We take a lot of incredible hikes and if you’ve been following along, you know that I love making big panorama photos on these hikes. After my foray into the world of Arduino electronics, I got the idea to build my own computer controlled pan tilt mount...
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Friday, March 09, 2012 12:30 AM

Two Camera Shoot

Tim and I brought our cameras to church for our mid-week Lenten service with the plan to record Pastor’s sermons and the songs from the visiting Evergreen Lutheran High School choir. It was our first time attempting to do a two camera shoot. Here’s what...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:30 AM

Canvas Print

Groupon had a deal a few months ago for a canvas print from Picture It On Canvas . We bought the deal since we have a lot of bare walls to cover in the house and it sounded like fun. After the hustle and bustle of Christmas, we finally got around to ordering...
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Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:30 AM

Photo Memories

This summer I posted about a website called Dear Photograph. It contains a bunch of photos of people holding up old photographs in the same spot they were taken. I decided to give it a shot while I was home for Christmas. Many of the photos didn’t...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011 12:30 AM

Photo Quality Comparison

I like to design my own Christmas card ( 2006 , 2007 , 2010 ) and this year was no different. While we were figuring out the design, I printed a couple test cards at Bartells because it was more convenient, but then our final batch was done at Costco...
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Tuesday, October 04, 2011 12:30 AM

Photo Editing

Now that we have a decent camera and a copy of Lightroom, I find myself wondering how much editing is too much. I can change and edit almost anything in terms of lighting and color. When I show some people the change, they think it’s awesome and want...
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Tuesday, August 09, 2011 12:30 AM

Long Lake Timelapse

This is shaping up to be photography week. I have quite a few posts about photos I took on vacation. This one is a short timelapse video that I took from the dock in Maine. It looked like a storm was rolling in during sunset so I was hoping for some great...
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Monday, August 08, 2011 12:30 AM

Camp Ticawa PhotoSynth

It’s hard to explain what the main lodge at camp looks like on the inside. While we were there last time, I walked all over the inside snapping a bunch of pictures. I then shoved them all up to PhotoSynth and let their app piece them all together into...
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Monday, July 25, 2011 12:30 AM

So Many Photos

On Wednesday I mentioned that we have 313GB of photos. That got me to thinking about how my photo taking has increased over the years. I got my first digital camera in October of 2002 and took 117 photos that year. I’ll start the chart with the first...
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