Flyover Country

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A very fine gentleman I know asked me today what digital SLR I’d buy for a thousand dollars. I was going to email him back with an answer, but I realized that more people would probably be interested in my thoughts on it than [...]

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So, it turns out that I botched the date: the SAM 75th anniversary party was actually yesterday. Teaches me to put stuff into my calendar, I guess. Oh well. In any case, Helen and I still took a good thousand photos between the two of us today. I ended up having about 50 ones I [...]

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I just ordered a pair of PocketWizards, a Vivitar 285, a B-M lightstand and umbrella adapter, umbrella, a few random accessories, and other such things. I’m going to immensely enjoy my foray into off-camera lighting, but oh dear god did the price of the PWs hurt. Ouch!

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The Seattle Asian Art Museum is hosting a 75th anniversary party on Sunday, July 19th, from 10am to 4pm. Sounds like there should be some good photo ops with a youth marimba ensemble, Chinese lion dancing, juggling and more. I’ll certainly be there at some point, and a dozen or so pictures should appear on [...]

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I Just found another place where one of my pictures has been used recently. The local NPR affiliate, KUOW, had a call-in program with Ron Sims, King County Executive, and used my picture of him from the Gay Pride Parade for the website blurb. Neat! 

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I just received word that my application to PhotoShelter, a fantastic stock photography service, was accepted. You can check out my profile to see the four images of mine (out of 10) that were accepted. woo-hoo! Hopefully, my camera equipment will actually pay for itself at some point

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I installed iPhone OS 2.0 on my iPhone last Thursday, and immediately set to work pimping out my phone with every halfway decent-looking free app I could cram into its eight shiny gigabytes of flash space. This included NetNewsWire, which I used to use and love way back in the day, but dumped for Google [...]

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Helen and I went to the 13th Annual Art and Garden Walk this afternoon down in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle. We had a blast, especially since Helen picked up a Canon Rebel XTi earlier this week. 
She’s adapting pretty well to the camera, and I’m surprising myself with the useful, practical information I’ve been able to [...]

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As I mentioned before, there was a photowalk starting at Pike’s Place Market in downtown Seattle yesterday. I took a few hundred pictures, and ended up with a handful that I thought were worth putting online. As always, you can find the full set on Flickr.

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There’s a Photowalk happening tonight in Downtown Seattle with Thomas Hawk.
It starts at 6pm next to Rachel the Pig at Pike’s Place Market.

(photo by Life As Art from Flickr. Provided under the Creative Commons by-nc-nd license)

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