Archive for the 'Photography' Category

Friday, er, Thursday Snake Blogging

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Took the day off and spent most of it working on the snake terrarium. Watching him pace (hmm, that doesn’t seem like the right word for a snake) his cage today made me particularly sad and motivated me to get about 95% finished. He could actually move in now - the only things [...]

Vacation pictures

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

The vacation pictures checklist from earlier:

Get 22 rolls of slide film back from the developer [Check - received mid June]
Put 800 slides into transparancy holders so they are easy to look at on the light box [Check - took two nights]
Go through 800 slides to determine which are worth scanning [Check - took another two [...]

High dynamic range photography

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Okay, now I’m just embarassed. I just heard about high dynamic range (HDR) photography from a NY Times article. I plead that it’s mostly just a trick and, hey, I primarily shoot slide film anyway.
So for others who haven’t heard of HDR photography, it’s a technical work around for one of the more [...]

Time to switch to digital?

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

I like taking pictures. When it comes to outdoor/wildlife photography, I like taking lots of pictures. K and I went on vacation to Yellowstone for two weeks, getting back at the beginning of June. I wound up with 22 rolls of 36 exposure slide film. For those of you keeping score [...]

Random recent pictures

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

My life as the husband of a wildlife rehabilitator…
A client…

A client turned pet (don’t ask)…

Pyramid of baby turtles (no, this isn’t posed)…

A recent delivery - I wonder what the poor driver thought…

but at least it had dry ice in it…