My daughter is 4 years old. This year at the church Awana program, she was able to purchase some Christmas gifts with the points she earned by memorizing Bible verses. For me, she chose this lovely cross. The verse on it is God breathed as is all the Bible, but suddenly, it means just a [...]
My sister-in-law and photographer to the stars, Tina Sweesy, took some family pictures for us on Sunday. The day was painfully cold and I’m amazed we walked away with a few usable shots. Tina was kind enough to let me have the original raw files to do the post-processing myself. So here is a shot [...]
For the past 2 years, I have drooled constantly over the images produced and the specs of the Nikon D90. For it’s image quality, great ISO levels and relatively low price, I have longed to pick one up. Alas, I’m yet to come up with enough extra spending money to get one. Well, my wait [...]
At about 10:00 am on Thursday my wife called me and asked if I could take some family photos of her sisters’ family that evening. I happened to have a borrowed Nikon D100 and 50mm 1.8 lense. The conditions were not ideal, and the short notice didn’t allow for much planning on my part. I am [...]
Here is the technique I use when I want my pictures to really jump out with detail and boldness. It requires Photoshop but only 2 really easy steps. I’ve used on Photoshop CS4 but I’m relatively sure these are common abilities for most of the recent releases. I’ve found that it works well on architectural [...]
My daughter was born in early 2007. Around that time, my wife and I shopped and decided on a Canon A640. At 10 megapixels, 4x zoom and articulating lcd viewing screen, it’s been an amazing camera for everything we’ve needed. So when I wanted to try my hand at some time lapse photography, I thought [...]
These are a few photos of some random things around the sawmill I’m working on in Boise. The steel has such wonderful worn and weathered textures and the gears, motors, and chains make for some interesting images. These are taken with my Canon A640 and altered slightly in Photoshop.
