Bert Stephani has a fantastic blog post up on how different constraints in off-camera flash can change a photo. Pay close attention to the last shots of Mieke outside at 1/250s, 1/125s and 1/50s. Subscribed!
I’m eating lunch and watching TPMTV’s recap of the McCain trainwreck from last night, and I was struck by how much McCain blinked and stumbled over his words. A cursory glance at the current information on the psychology of lying suggests that lia...
At the end of April, I drove up to Mount Vernon in Skagit Valley, up in northern Washington, for the 2008 Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. I’ve been a bit slow in posting pictures, but I finally got around to it tonight. Nine photos from Skagit Valle...
Obama was inspiring, Clinton was delusional, McCain seemed to be saying “hey you kids, get off my lawn!”
This was the moment—this was the time—when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals. That man is an absolutely electrifying speaker. My god.
Our CEO, Scott, had us over to his house a few weeks back to celebrate our recent successes with Skytap Virtual Lab. Naturally, I wandered off for a while to take a few pictures. It was a stunning day, and I was able to get a few reasonable pictur...
My friend Rob, affectionately known as Rizzle, Robzor, or Robasaurus by me, turned 30 two weeks ago. To celebrate, a number of us spent the day on Lake Stevens north of Everett, WA barbecuing, boating, and goofing off. Happy birthday, buddy! ...
I was in Boulder, Colorado last weekend for the wedding of two friends of mine from high school, Afton and Abbie. Even though they had a professional wedding photographer at work, I still took a few hundred pictures. All told, I ended up with a ha...
I had dinner at Matt’s in the Market last week. As always, the food was fantastic, and the ambiance wasn’t far behind. Their bread pudding and scallops are absolutely to die for, and I ate so much that I thought I might (hah!). A little more is av...
[W]e may call ourselves Democrats and Republicans, but we are Americans first. We are always Americans first.