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{ Monthly Archives } November 2007

apologies to the people of West Virginia

“Turn the lights off, you’re killing polar bears”. We use that expression around our house to try and shame encourage everyone to turn the lights off after they leave the room. Well it turns out now that we should be saying “turn the lights out, you’re giving the people in West Virginia black lung”.
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more sites than you can shake a stick at

There are a few photography websites that I check out on a regular basis. After finding these two lists, I have a lot more reading to do. Good stuff.
Chase Jarvis has compiled a list of user-submitted 150 favorite blogs, many of which include photography blogs.
Epic Edits Weblog lists 87 Great Photography Blogs and Feeds.

high risk photography

What do you do when you don’t have a good macro lens that can shoot from a distance, and you just have to get a close up of home-made cranberry sauce cooking on the stove? You cross your fingers and justify the risk of putting your lens 3 inches away from the bubbling, sugary exploding [...]

waiter, there’s mouse shit in my food

“Do not worry monsieur, zee little black spots in your sundae are our own special chocolate”
Mice close NY home of $25,000 dessert
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan restaurant that unveiled a record-breaking $25,000 (12,200 pounds) dessert last week has been forced to shut its doors temporarily due to an infestation of mice and cockroaches.
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Gallery updates

I’ve added a couple of new galleries to the IR photos that I’m hosting locally on this site. You can find links to the individual galleries in the sidebar, or the main page here. I’m getting much happier with the results that I’m getting shooting IR, both from the cameras that I’m using, and with [...]

photowalk recap

The IndyFlickr group had our November walk through Holliday Park last Saturday. The weather was gorgeous, once it warmed up. Today’s photo was the sunrise I caught on the way there. It really was that spectacular.
I’ve written up a recap of the walk on photowalking.org. Go check it out.

ruins in the park


Photowalking Indianapolis

We had another good turnout last Saturday for the November IndyFlickr photowalk. The weather was beautiful (once the sun came out and it warmed up a bit). I’ll have a post recapping it on photowalking.org in a day or two.
I didn’t plan on it when I went, but I ended up taking most of my [...]

Shoot the moon

Digital IR continues to surprise me. I’ve been using my new 28mm f/1.8 prime lens quite a bit for shooting IR with my Canon, and have been really happy with the results. As I hoped for, the higher quality lens exhibits a lot less lens flare than the kit lens that came with the camera. [...]