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I meant to post this on Saturday, but I ended up posting those fireworks pictures instead, because I liked how they turned out. So here is my second and last "year in review" post --help me pick a "best picture of 2010" shot by posting in the comments with the number of the one you like. :-) Here's a link →
Anybody got a peanut?
[AKA No more Tower Bridge pictures now, I mean it! And if you don't get the movie reference in the post title, feel free to enquire in the comments.] ;-) I promise that unless something exceptional happens, these will be my last pictures of Tower Bridge for a while. I know, enough with the darn bridge already... like I said, I →
They don’t make ‘em like this anymore
Dusk is my favorite time to photograph neon -- moreso than complete dark. The colors are just as vivid, but there's less of that sharp contrast (and therefore glare) between the dark sky and the bright light. I live about eight blocks from the Esquire Theatre, a movie theater that opened in 1940 and was converted to an IMAX theater in →
Anyone remember that short little trip I took this past summer?
If you're new here and you're not quite sure to what I'm referring, check out my Euro Trip 2010 category. In a nutshell, I finally did something I've been wanting to do since I was 16 -- got a backpack and a rail pass and traveled Europe for two months this past summer. It was absolutely the most incredible trip →
Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999
I hope I managed to infect at least one of you with a Prince earworm via my post title. :-) Yesterday morning I was getting ready for work, and in my typical ADD fashion suddenly decided it was time to copy 11 years worth of pictures off of an external hard drive and onto my laptop so that I could take →
Prepare for ludicrous speed!
The title is a Spaceballs reference, in case it left you scratching your head. Hey, it's a classic! Anyway, I only got a small handful of decent pics on my walk around town Friday night with my new camera, but this is one I really liked. I've been meaning to take a picture of this sculpture on the corner of 16th →
I love Budapest at night
Liberty Bridge., originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. This isn't my Day 32 post, by the way. I'm working on that. This is just a lovely shot of the Liberty Bridge and the Danube River, with the Gellert Hotel in the background. It was a lovely evening yesterday. :-)
Euro Trip Day 4: See that “no photography” sign? I’m pretending I didn’t.
Let me preface this post by saying that I don't expect everyone to have a huge level of technical expertise when it comes to photography. I really don't. Honest. But for the love of pete, if you don't learn ANYTHING else about how to operate your camera, PLEASE PLEASE learn how to shut off the flash. Please. I do realize that →
Italy Day 5: Naples, er, Rome
Day 5, Thanksgiving, dawned quite a bit earlier than any of us had planned. I woke up around 3:30 and discovered that John had quietly been getting sick since before midnight. I gave him some Tylenol I'd brought (as he had a fever) and some saltines, but without getting too graphic, he was no better at keeping those down than →
Italy Day 4: The Amalfi Coast
The fourth day started out quite wonderfully. Why? Well, for the first time the whole trip, we slept in. Ahhh, sleep. We were up and out the door by around 10:00 though, so that we could catch a bus to Positano and then to Amalfi, to see what neat things there were to see. As it turns out, it wasn't →
Trying out a new lens on my living room
Because I like to play, I opted to rent a wide-angle lens to take to Rome, as I don't own one, and I remember feeling frustrated in London with lots of large buildings and things that I couldn't fit entirely in my lens. You might remember last spring when I rented Canon's 10-22mm lens, and while I liked that, I →
Out of season
(Note: this is NOT my tree--honest!!!)
Wide angle lens fun day 5: Able to capture whole murals in a single shot
For an idea of how big this mural is, look at the parking spaces in front of it. For an idea of how far away I was standing, look at the parking spaces in front of it. The answer is in the picture's caption. . 100 degree field of view, baby!! .
More snowboarding pictures
Here are some more pictures from the ones I took on Saturday at Sierra-at-Tahoe. After spending pretty much the full day (and taking over 700 pictures) I've decided that I can safely strike "professional snow sports photographer" off of my list of potential careers. I spent most of the day crouched/lying in the snow with numb fingers and a slowly-soaking-through →
Wide angle fun, day 4: Haunted house
Last Halloween I was wandering around town looking for Halloween-themed pictures for an October photo challenge when I stumbled upon a really creepy-looking house several blocks from where I live. I snapped some pictures which I posted to my Flickr but later decided not to use, but then I promptly forgot about it until a few weeks ago, when I →
Wide angle fun, day 3: The skate park
Yesterday after work I wandered a few blocks over from my house to a skate park that's in an old warehouse. It's right on the way I take to the river, so I've noticed it before, but I've never actually stopped to check it out. I figured that in preparation for Saturday's upcoming funness that I needed to practice some →
Wide angle fun, day 2: On my street
A couple fun things from my street: . .
Wide angle fun, day 1: Inside my house
For the next two weeks, I'm renting a Canon 10-22mm wide angle lens from LensRentals.com. I'm doing this for a couple of reasons. First, a friend of mine told me that I need to quit focusing in on details of stuff and try zooming out and looking at the big picture for a change. I retorted that I don't have →