Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the DP Blogs 30 Day Photo Challenge. Last year, a group of us took and posted one picture every day during the month of March. I learned a lot about my own photography and I’m excited to see if my photo style has evolved at all. [...]

Sometimes you need to think the way a digital camera thinks. All it knows is to take a light meter reading based upon where you point it. Most cameras base their light readings on the center point of the image because that’s usually where people put their subjects’ faces. But doing [...]

Breaking News! As this article went to “press”, I received the following e-mail (actually 3-similar e-mails) from “Amazon. Check out how the bogus “sold-ship now” e-mail has Amazon logos and other “security” logos. It even has links back to Amazon…or are they?
Check out the links and return address, and it obviously DOESN’t go back to [...]

I like taking all kinds of pictures when I travel to trigger memories, particularly of things that might slip my mind later in life. Sure, I’ll always remember the ice storm, but will I always remember the leaning tower of blocks or spaghettiface? I like to record pictures of hotel rooms and funny [...]

What do you get when you mix 1 surgery, 4 airplanes, 1 toddler, 1 ice storm, 2 power outtages, 10-hours in the emergency room, and 16-degree weather?? You get a crazy tired woman desperately glad to be home. My mom had surgery last week, so I flew with the baby to Annapolis, [...]

I received a great photo umbrella and universal swivel holder from my sister-in-law this past Christmas. As usual, Strobist turned my onto these low cost wonders. I’ve been doing a lot of cardboard lightbox macro shots lately and have been pretty happy. However, the box does somewhat hinder your ability to vary the direction of [...]

Yes, we survived around 40 hours in the car with two little kids over the past week.  A great trip, but glad to be home again.  I hauled my camera around but used it very little as I was having some metering problems (sign…another problem…).  However, my wife’s brother (and wife) have a nice Canon [...]

I’ve been on a knitting jag this winter. I’m working on my fourth sweater since the beginning of the year and there are no signs of my slowing down. I cannot, however, take credit for this great sweater Chloe is wearing (bought for her by Gran at April Cornell). But I [...]