Color. It is a wonderful thing.

Long time no post [again]! The short update is that not much is new and notable in my life. That isn’t a bad thing, just a ‘things-are-proceeding-as-they-usually-do’ thing. Yesterday, though, I did something small for myself that made some things much better in my life. Of course this, [...]

Long time and no blog. Sad to say not much has been new or noteworthy in my life: work is going well, I am still volunteering at Harborview, I took a Host Defense to Cancer class at UW, and I have a some vacation time coming up and am planning a trip to [...]

I have been pretty good about not buying things lately, but last week I broke down and bought something kind of big… a new camera toy tool: the Canon 50mm f/1.2L USM lens. At 545 gm, it’s beefy and twice the weight of my older 50, the Canon 50mm f/1.4 USM!

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You know those images that really pop? The ones that make you stop and say… whoa. I suppose that response is elucidated by different images for different people, but the ones that really do it for me are High Dynamic Range images (HDR). The old-school method to create these images was extremely tricky; it [...]

It is back by popular demand (actually by Mike’s initiative). But this time it is new & improved, with 20+ members!! Topic one was fresh, as in a “fresh start.” Again, Mike’s pick and a great theme. Below was my entry, be sure to check for updates & follow along (or better [...]

I have made a few back-end changes over the past couple of days to the site. They shouldn’t affect any of the experience, but will make things a lot easier (and nicer) for me. The primary switch was hosting from 1and1 to Dreamhost: the site is now up to >200GB of storage (from [...]

Found a great video on YouTube. We need more things like this. Also dug the song by Sick Puppies (it’s on iTunes).