Shhhhh…. Don’t tell 1and1

I did some extra processing of the original photo. I blame Megan Sommerville.

Niece Ivy. Another edit using a new technique for selective coloring I saw demonstrated yesterday at Precision Camera’s photo expo.

This is the second version of the photo.

(May 31st, 2009) I’ve entered the AmeriCorps Photo contest, with this photo of Capital Area Food Bank’s Communications VISTA, Carrie Gibson, helping build the Food Bank’s square foot teaching gardens.

You can visit my entry on the contest site just to, you know, drive up the page views.

(Not you, Shannon!)

1 year. 12 months. 52 weeks.
69 photos of flowers.
131 B&W photos.
144 photos of Emma.
168 photos from Disney World.
1480 photos posted.
9030 photos taken.

(And for those playing the home game, that’s an average of 24.7 photos taken a day.)

Turned my dSLR into a pinhole camera for World Pinhole Photography Day.

(February 14th, 2009) A shot of Holiday, since she was being reasonably sane. I took my friend Todd’s advice since I was using flash – manual, f 4.0, shutter speed of 1/60, and bounce the flash off the ceiling. Turns out having left the ISO at 400 was the right thing to do. At 200 and 100, she was under exposed. And, as is my wont, I ran the photo through some Nik filters. In this case, Silver Efex Pro. I’m seeing a significant trend towards B&W over the last month or so.

(February 8th, 2009) Taking a nod from Strobist (link to come), I decided to try my hand at using my iPhone as the only light source. This is a 30 second exposure, and I moved the phone around to get more even lighting. Added a little Color Efx Pro filter magic as well.

(January 5th, 2009) I came into the living room to find Emma had put her Fancy Nancy stickers in her hair – as if they were berets. Luckily removal wasn’t traumatic. Later, she turned her butterfly stickers in to a bracelet.

(January 3rd, 2009) She was wiggling around on the couch, so I took the opportunity to snap a few photos with my macro lens, a 100mm Canon f2.8, which functions very nicely as a portrait lens as well.