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Entries from June 2008

Monty likes one of my pictures

June 30th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Photography · Popfly

2008 Gay Pride Parade

June 29th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Photography

Pictures from the Seattle Center

June 29th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Photography

Strobing Myself Up

June 27th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Gazing into the Canopy

June 27th, 2008 · No Comments

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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A Video for Strobist Noobs

June 27th, 2008 · No Comments

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

 

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Barack Obama Travels by Forklift

June 19th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Zoon Politikon

Featured in two places this week

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Ross Perot: ‘McCain is the classic opportunist.’

June 12th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Zoon Politikon

Kyoto Pictures

June 11th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Photography