2011
When my wife Karen and I built our house we decided not to build a pool. It seems not a year passes by in Houston without several children drowning in pools. With our son only two years old and the time and our daughter minus 4 months old when we moved in, we’d decided we just didn’t want the risk. Fast forward eight years and both kids look forward eagerly to Memorial Day when the neighborhood pools open and we […]
To those who have served, are serving, and will serve to protect my way of life and defend the freedoms I enjoy (and take for granted) I can never thank you enough.
I’m glad to announce that my print shop is now open for business! Initially serving customers in the US and Canada, I hope to open it up to international customers soon. To go to the shop, click the “Buy Images” link in the navigation bar at the top of the page. Initially I have some of my images from my trip to Maine available for sale and I’ll be adding more images in the coming weeks.
After some false starts I’ve re-commenced scanning my Mother’s old Kodachrome slides – images taken in the 60’s and 70’s with a Kodak 126 Instamatic camera that I previously blogged about here. In between I’ve had numerous hardware and software issues with my PC, most recently a boot sector virus that prompted me to through out the old XP dinosaur and buy a Windows 7 dinosaur to replace it. Setting up a new computer is always time consuming and this […]
Back in January, David (The Strobist) Hobby and Joe (Numnuts) McNally announced their Flash Bus 2011 Tour – a six-week, 29-city bus tour around the US teaching their small flash lighting philosophies. David takes a manual approach (in the main) while Joe usually takes the TTL route. On March 26 the tour bus pitched up in Houston and about 300 photo enthusiasts lined up outside the Ayva Center in high anticipation of the day to come. A glance at the […]
Back on December 19 of last year I was lamenting the changes in iPad iOS 4.2 that lowered the power to the power to the iPad 30-pin connector resulting in an inability to download CF cards to the iPad through a card reader. The reduction in power from 100 mA to 20 mA meant that the iPad no longer provided sufficient power to read a CF card through a USB card reader and iPad Camera Connection Kit combo. The only […]