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Weekend Picture Taking

5 June 2011

It’s been a long week­end already and it’s only noon on Sun­day :) Of course I started it on Fri­day. Early fri­day morn­ing I headed out to take some flower and yard pic­tures and to start get­ting the birds at the new feed­ers used to my being around with the cam­era. The yard is a […]

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Day 3 — Marching Bands and Plants

15 September 2010

Oof. It was late last night and I posted this entry to the wrong blog. So here it is about 12 hours late. For break­fast this morn­ing we had march­ing bands. One of the largest of the local high schools had their parade to the zocolo in honor of the Bicen­ten­nial. First there was a bit […]

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Day 2 — In Which I Resist Words

13 September 2010

So… all you get today are pic­tures. Jim’s obser­va­tions for today.

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Day 1 — In Which We Slack

12 September 2010

The first day here in Oax­aca is always a lit­tle slow.  I’ve been beaten up by the air­lines, the alti­tude change is more than 5000 ft, and there’s the nec­es­sary trips for sup­plies (beer.) Lead­ing to not doing much. A brief after­noon stroll to try out the new lens was all the ambi­tion I could muster. […]

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New Glass

5 September 2010

We spent a lit­tle time down at the expen­sive toy store ear­lier this week­end. We came away with two new-to-us lenses. The first is rather dull — it’s a straight across replace­ment for the 70–300 that we already had. The new one has VR, Nikon’s image stabilization/vibration reduc­tion pack­age. The longer the lens the more […]

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19 years and counting — in Winthrop

22 July 2010

Last week­end J and I spend a few days “away” in Winthrop WA. It was a nice chance to relax and spend some down time with each other. Fri­day after­noon was hot and dry when we left Seat­tle. The long route through the moun­tains (up to Hwy 20.) The canyon below Dia­blo dam was com­pletely dry. Sign […]

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TGIF: Chickens — The Essay">TGIF: Chickens — The Essay

2 March 2009

The final ver­sion of my photo essay on our chick­ens is up. Click on this run­ning chicken for more pictures!

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Photos from Puerto Vallarta

24 February 2009

two quick gal­leries with­out any edit­ing work — Mine: http://blackdogandmagpie.net/galleries/index.php?album=laras-rough-cut Jim’s: http://blackdogandmagpie.net/galleries/index.php?album=puerto-vallarta-1

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New Pictures

2 February 2009

Two gal­leries of pic­tures from last week’s day-trip to the Fri­day Har­bor in the San Juan Islands for the pur­pose of pick­ing up the pig. (Yummy fresh pork!) First a gen­eral gallery — mostly shots that Jim took. And a col­lec­tion, mostly mine — a few of Jim’s, taken at the ferry dock at Lopez Island on […]

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30 Minutes with Photoshop

29 January 2009

I have a desk­top wid­get that acts as a sideshows photo frame on my devel­op­ment machine. Hav­ing some­thing pleas­ant to stare at when my mind goes blank on a prob­lem is nice. This morn­ing, dur­ing a par­tic­u­larly intense “now how the hell is that sup­posed to work” spell the photo below came up. Click on the photo […]

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