Of cookies and critiques

I loves me some chocolate chip cookies. And if I do say so myself, I can make the very best chocolate chip cookies I’ve ever had. They’re pretty awesome. But I’m no baker. I really don’t know what I’m doing other than following a recipe with some of my own modifications (guesses, really). I don’t […]

TTG WordPress Theme Photoswipe gallery

Here’s a quick example of the Photoswipe Gallery included with The Turning Gate’s new Theme for WordPress Lightroom web gallery plug-in. Click on any of the images below (after the jump) to see it in action. All of the TTG Plug-ins are amazing, and if you want an easy to manage, slicker than slick looking […]

WordPress Themes from The Turning Gate

Matt at The Turning Gate (TTG) makes some of the best Lightroom webpage plugins that are out there. Now, with the new CE2 engines just released, Matt has outdone himself. He’s created a plug-in that will make WordPress themes. Now you can easily match your WordPress blog to your website by using Matt’s plug-ins. What […]

My favorite image of 2011

This picture of a curve in some ice on a pond ended up being my favorite image of 2011 for a few reasons. One is that it’s a very simple composition and simple is always good. Plus I like curves. It was made on a very cold January morning while Bailey (the labradoodle) and I […]

More Lessons Learned

Ok, so I haven’t posted anything in a long time. I really meant to. In fact, I planned on trying to post something every week. But I’m also a fantastic procrastinator. I’ll try to get better. Not at the procrastinating. The other thing. Anyway, I managed to make one of those epic photo mistakes at […]

Olympic National Park report

While the rest of the country sweats and swelters, in the Pacific Northwest we experienced one of our latest, coldest, wettest springs ever and it’s just kept on going through what I am told is now summer. Frankly I’m not opposed to cool weather, I like cool weather. But really, Mother Nature? What all this […]

Dipping my toe into the HDR waters

I’ve downloaded NIK’s HDR EFEX Pro trial. Figure since I get questions at every workshop about HDR photography I better learn a little about it. So far I’m pretty impressed. The problem is that I don’t have a whole lot of images to try it out on. Guess I better try to make some.


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