Because I Like It

Its not a great photo and maybe not even a good one but I like it and that counts for something.

Improve Your Table Top Photography

Instructables has some easy instructions for making a Budget Photographic Lighting "Tent" that will markedly improve the quality of your table top small photography.

Basically, get a white (or near white) bucket. Cut a u-shape out of it, flip it over and light it from behind with a strong light. No light should shine directly into the bucket.

And.... done. Pretty easy, eh?

I will be getting a bucket tomorrow and playing around with this over the weekend. I will, of course, post results here.

Looking Out

I spent the morning on New Year's Day chasing Grady all over the Pigeon Point Lighthouse park. This was a rare moment of reflection as he enjoyed watching the waves bash into the rocks below the lighthouse.

In addition to all his running around outside, he and his cousin ran around the inside of the hostel for, literally, hours on end. He must have run several miles by the end of the evening and then ran some more when he woke up the next morning.

Doesn't he know I'm a cyclist and not a runner?

Say, what's THAT?

A friend's daughter confronts mortality with a smile. Simply awesome!

Pigeon Point Lighthouse

Sully at the Park

A soft portrait of my baby boy from last week when it was so chilly. He's got such wonderfully chubby cheeks!

Moving Out

A macro I still love. Every picture tells a story and I like what this one was saying and still do.

Honeybee on Passion Flower

Pumpkin Patch Color Accent

Taken on Sunday's trip to the local pumpkin patch to pick out our victims for this year's carve-fest. I set the camera for color accent, selected the orange of the pumpkins and shot a few snaps. This one ended up being the best of the bunch and I really like how the orange "pops" in the photo.

I will have to play around with the color accent and color swap settings some more to see what kind of neat trick images I can generate.

Happy Halloween!

Check that last post, this is my best pumpkin I've ever carved. It came out beautifully and is really pretty scary looking in the dark with the orange glow behind it.

It looks alot less mean in the daylight though.