All Blog Posts (Page 43)

Jul 03, 2008
Photography

Awesome new lens

I picked up a Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L lens yesterday, and it is absolutely fantastic! This is really a gorgeous lens: very fast, very sharp, super high quality, and it weighs just over 2 pounds. Simply crazy. I had a very serious conversation about...

Jul 02, 2008
Politics

Where's the Beef? Fighter Plane Edition

Wesley Clark said the other day “‘riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down’ is not ‘a qualification to be president,’” per US News and World Report, and countless other sources. As you can see in this video from TPM Media, the media immedi...

Echo Chamber Alert

In case any of you care, here are the blogs I’ve found most interesting and relevant to my life over the past few weeks: Bert Stephani - Confessions of a Photographer - Great easy-to-follow discussions on off-camera lighting. Dare Obasanjo - 25...

Jul 01, 2008
Politics

Obama's brilliant when it comes to religion

Let’s face facts: the majority of Americans are not like me. Accordingly to religioustolerance.org, over three quarters of the United States (i.e. about 225 million Americans) are Christian. About 3% follow other faiths. 14% of Americans are, more...

Monty likes one of my pictures

John Montgomery, my old boss from Popfly, gave me some great props on his blog earlier today. God bless the blogger echo chamber: blogging about blogs about me.  One of my friends, and a former teammate, is Aaron Brethorst. For the longest time I ...

Jun 29, 2008
Photography

Pictures from the Seattle Center

Got busy yesterday: hit up Glazer’s Camera for a price and weight comparison on three Canon ‘L’ lenses: the 17-40, 27-40 and 24-105. I decided that I will pick up the 24-70L as soon as my finances allow it. I’m certainly not willing to pay Glazer’...

Jun 29, 2008
Photography

2008 Gay Pride Parade

I was at the 2008 Gay Pride Parade in Downtown Seattle this afternoon, and took about 600 pictures in total. I’ve posted 35 of the ones I saved, and still have a few more to put up as soon as I figure out how Flickr’s parental control thingies wor...

Jun 27, 2008
Photography

Strobing Myself Up

I’ve been gazing wistfully at the beautiful pictures that a solid photographer can take with an off-camera flash, transmitters, and…oh yeah, talent. Talent tends to be helpful, too. Anyway, the amount of equipment you could need, and the terribly...

Jun 27, 2008
Photography

Gazing into the Canopy

I haven’t had much of a chance to take pictures lately, since I was knocked on my ass for a couple weeks by a really unpleasant illness. Still, I had a chance to take some pictures recently, and captured a semi-interesting one of tree canopy in Vo...