A trip to Mossleigh
Alex is getting annoyed with me. I’m going on excursions into the countryside without her. I am admittedly being very selfish with these, I want – I need time to myself. To do things I want to do, without …
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Drumheller in the winter
I had to take a week and a half off of work. Our Glorious Department of People has a hard-and-fast rule that Thou Shalt Not Carry Over Vacation, Even If You’ve Worked 65+ Hour Weeks For Months Because We’re …
Roaming the Foothills
Choo Choo is at the Acreage again this weekend for some tests. Unlike usual visits, these are hours each, which is mildly inconvenient for anyone taking her out there, which in this case, is me. Yesterday, it was 3 …
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Photo Sharing, Version 4
Tired of these yet? So I ran into a weird problem with my V3 site. I decided I had too many pages with no introductory text and it was proving to be awkward to use. Because of the way I had set up the Hugo site, I also …
Adobe Lightroom's Denoise is Magic
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Holy cow, Artie couldn’t have been more right. So last night, whilst gathering together more pictures to populate my new and …
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Another Site, Another Hugo
You might recall that I tried to make a simple photo sharing site. It worked, but … it wasn’t enough. When you’ve built as many websites as I have, you recognize features almost at a genetic level and …
I've left my internet presence untended
I’m not an egomaniac, let’s just get that clear. I don’t google myself regularly. In fact, I’m not even sure when I last googled myself … it’s been years. Yes, I actually did used to …
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Building Better Image Sharing
A few lifetimes ago, I had a rather sizeable Flickr library. It grew over many years, from many vacations, many photos of my growing kids and extended family, and more than a few company events. I liked what Flickr did …
A wintery drive to Drumheller
I met my friend Nancy when I first joined Critical Mass in April 2000. She was my first project manager, as we slugged away at the Proctor & Gamble Presiva project (it’s a fringe product that thankfully died out …
Four fun-filled days
I sit here at my kitchen table, rubbing the weariness from my eyes. Not the things you’d normally hear from me, mind you — I haven’t been working too hard as of late (as you know, my big project is done). No, this is …
A Day In My Life
Over the last (almost) year, I’ve had a number of people ask me what a regular day is like for me. It’s not an easy answer. First of all, there is no such thing as “regular” or “ordinary” in my …
Why the right tools matter
A few years ago, I went off to Japan to visit my friend Chris. I took along my (at the time) fancy digital camera: a Canon Pro 90 IS. Fancy in that it was big mega-pixels (for the time) and had an image stabiliser …
My Canon Rebel XT doesn't work
It’s weird. I’m not sure what it is. When I was in Panama a few weeks ago, I was out happily snapping pictures when, for reasons I simply don’t understand, the auto-focus stopped working. My first thought was …
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Wireless photography rocks!
I’ll keep this one quick (mostly ‘cuz I gotta run home ASAP), but I finally got my shipment from B&H Photo today, which included my new Lumix FX-30 (yes, I intentionally chose an older model) and an Eye-Fi card. The …
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Pictures from my new lens
On the weekend, I spun by a very busy The Camera Store to pick up my new lens, a Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM. This is the standard prime used for virtually every camera for the last 60 years or so. Even the digitals picked …
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