Happy Mother’s Day to me! OK, actually it’s happy early birthday to me. With a milestone birthday coming up next week (and a handy little rebate check from the IRS burning a hole in my pocket), Chris and I decided now was as good a time as ever to finally join the ranks of the [...]

I took a series of pictures in the Harrah’s Casino in Escondido, California. Here are all the splashy neon results.

I need new rechargeable batteries for my flash.  I currently have a few sets of Energizer 2300 mAh and they seem to be on their last legs.  Any favorite brands?

Hurray, I have a new camera! I went to Samy’s Camera this morning thinking I would buy the Canon A640, and I came home with a completely different camera! It’s soooo pretty and so little. It’s a Canon PowerShot SD800 IS ELPH, with 7.1 megapixels and and an image stabilizer in [...]

So this is how my camera rendered this carousel ride photo I took on a recent trip to the mall (click to view larger). In the thumbnail on my computer, the image looked fine and ordinary — although I was pretty excited about the fun blur and motion capture that appeared to be going [...]

I’m terrible at writing thank you notes. Everyone in my family knows this. So when Chloe was born, I was daunted at the thought of all those thank you’s when I had a newborn to care for. But the camera was always in my hands in those early weeks, and I’m [...]

So, I’ve decided against getting Adobe Lightroom.  I used the 30-day trial quite thoroughly, and while I liked a lot of the features, I decided that there are many other ways to edit, organize and tag photos without spending $199.  Now that the trial price has ended, the $299 retail price is totally out of [...]

What is a bokeh, and why would you want to create it in your images? The term comes from the Japanese word that means “blur” or “fuzzy” and refers to the out-of-focus area in a photograph. Some definitions of the term say this blurry area in your photo is created by camera lens. I’m here [...]