Entries Tagged as 'Photography'

Revolution Brewing

May 3rd, 2011 · No Comments

Demonstrating to Dallas the awesomeness that is the AutoStitch iPhone app on an oddly dead lunch hour at Revolution Brewing. View larger.

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Canon S95

March 6th, 2011 · 5 Comments

Hawaii 2009: I dropped my Canon A95 and it was the last straw for my beloved point and shoot. I was taking a photo of this bike rack in Waikiki when the fatal blow came. I’d had that camera since 2005, so four years wasn’t a bad run.

Well, I wasn’t really speedy about replacing the A95 and finally in the spring of 2010, I got a the Canon Powershot SD 1200 IS. It was a good little camera, but I missed all of my manual controls that I have on my DSLR and that were even on my Canon A95. I wanted badly to upgrade to the Canon PowerShot S95, which was a compact point and shoot and had all manual controls.

At Tien and Shannan’s wedding, my friend Adam had the S95 and after playing with it, I was completely sold. The only problem? Price. It wasn’t exactly the cheapest camera, and we were on a wedding budget. Dallas kept telling me to just get it, but I wasn’t allowing myself. Then Ed called me and asked me for a recommendation on an inexpensive, easy-to-use point and shoot camera. My SD 1200 was only about 8 months old and in perfect condition. If I could sell it, I could put the money towards the S95. Ed agreed, and even though I didn’t sell it for too much, the fact that I was letting it go, and the fact that our Hawaiian vacation and wedding was coming up, was enough to push me. I finally decided to go and get the S95. New problem? Manufacturer backorder! No one had it in stock.

I spent a weekend looking everywhere online and calling around to stores in Chicago. When I called the Microcenter, they said they had two in stock. I gave them my name, told them I’d be there in 10 minutes, and rushed out the door. Bingo!

I love this camera. It’s small and compact, but very powerful. I never even took my DSLR out of its case on our trip to Hawaii. Love, love, love. If you’ve got a bit more money to spend on a point and shoot, I’d recommend the Canon S95 to you, without a doubt! I’m about to start posting photos from our trip to Hawaii.. All of them were taken with the Canon S95, with the exception of a few iPhone photos.

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Baked Escape on Daily Candy

July 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment

Last week my friend Ed’s business, The Baked Escape, was featured on Daily Candy. Pretty exciting because Daily Candy has such a huge distribution list. Everyone should be buying his desserts now (I hope!). Also exciting since I took all of the photography for Ed’s site and one of my photos was included in the Daily Candy feature.

Here’s my previous post on The Baked Escape.

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My Photo Featured on Gapers Block

August 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments

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Last Friday I was in an all-day meeting without access to a computer, so of course that was the day Gapers Block featured one of my photos in their Rearview section! I got home and noticed a friend had commented to me on Facebook about it. Exciting! I think this is the first time I’ve had a photo featured on Gapers Block.. but it was probably the first time I submitted to their Flickr pool, too. I need to do things like that more often. Anyway, I was flattered. Thanks, Gapers Block!

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Christmas in Chicago

December 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

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Jessica was excited to pass out gifts to everyone. Of course, it only lasted half-way bc then she was too busy with her own gifts.

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Stephanie

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Stephanie got a new bedroom set (comforter and sheets), a lot of clothes which thankfully were “cool,” and a bunch of jewelry.

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Richard enjoying many a mug of brandied eggnog.

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Jessica with a gift by the tree.

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Jessica and mom. Mom somehow got trash duty and Jess was making the most trash, I think.

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Amanda had dad’s name. The only thing that dad said he wanted was a drill, so that’s what he got.

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Dad had Amanda’s name. She got a new set of towels, each individually wrapped. Also, it wouldn’t be a gift from dad without duct tape.

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Mom & Jess goofing around. Jess was probably getting bored now that all of her gifts were open! She got a lot of clothes and movies and bedding. Mostly all Hello Kitty and Hannah Montana themed.

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Mom had Richard’s name and gifted him some Rock Band accessories, a book and some ear bands (coming in handy right now, I’m sure).

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I had mom’s name. I gave her a book she wanted to read and a certificate for a manicure and pedicure. She’s been wanting to treat herself.

Dallas has had to travel the last two long weekends for work and my sister-in-law works a lot of weekends at the hospital, so it was impossible to find a time when all of us could get together for Christmas. Dallas ended up missing out this weekend when all of my family came down from Wisconsin to celebrate. Jessica and Stephanie got to open gifts from Dallas and me and my parents. The adults all do a gift exchange where you just draw one name and buy that one person a gift. I got a bottle of wine, a wine cooler and a bunch of wine glasses. My cheap-o wine glasses keep breaking every time we use them so this was a much-appreciated gift.

Also note, Dallas got me an external flash for my camera and I practiced using it this weekend. I think the photos look so much better than with the on-camera flash, but if you have any tips for me, feel free to leave a comment or email me. Still learning how to use it most effectively.

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