Flyover Country

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 thought of him as the amusing guy from VScore who attended shiproom. [...]

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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 work (they’re all of naked bikers and [...]

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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’s $130 price difference over Amazon for the sake of [...]

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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 conflicting information about the quality, reliability, and technique surrounding such equipment is somewhat overwhelming for a rank [...]

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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 Volunteer Park the other week.

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I just found a great video on Youtube for total off-camera lighting newbies. Check it out:

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Slate has a list of tongue-in-cheek ‘rumors’ about Barack Obama up right now. Some of the highlights include:

 Barack Obama wears a FLAG PIN at all times. Even in the shower.
There’s only one artist on Barack Obama’s iPod: FRANCIS SCOTT KEY.
Barack Obama’s skin is the color of AMERICAN SOIL.
Barack Obama’s new airplane includes a conference room, [...]

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Two of my photos have been featured on websites this week. First, my picture Molten Sky was a pick on Seattlest yesterday. Second, my picture Eighth Wonder is being used on Schmap for Seattle’s Smith Tower.

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Interesting article from the Daily Mail about John McCain’s history, and how he screwed around on his first wife with a variety of women until he finally settled on Cindy Lou Hensley, divorced his first wife, and married Cindy a month later. Great guy with great moral fiber. Clearly. 
Ross Perot…believes that both Carol McCain [McCain's [...]

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I’ve finally caught up with my backlog of photos from Japan, and posted the last of my pictures from Kyoto. They’re primarily from Rokuon-ji, which you can see in part below. 

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