PotW #3 delayed due to my birthday

Well I should have done this on Saturday by my blog schedule, but I was taking some personal time, and so the final work on the photos I took had to wait until after I got some contract work done. This week's theme for a picture is Winter Scenes, in honor of the snowfall during the weekend. I went off on a mini vacation, and brought my camera onto the mountain for some downhill skiing. I was having a leisurely day so there aren't winter sports action shots, but I did capture a few scenes I really liked.

Hobby Photography Day: Cooking

Here's the first post in my Hobby Photography series. I decided to start somewhere pretty easy, and since I need to eat every day, and since there's such an established style for it, I am starting with a cooking post.

So what's on the menu? Marinated Steak Strips over Garlic Rice with Scallions.

 doesn't that look tasty?

the Week in WOW

I know that I wrote that these things were going to be weekly, but this will have to serve as a two week update (mostly because I felt like waiting for something good happening to blog about.) In my last WOW post, I mentioned how Rebelution moved on to Dragon Soul, and how we were hoping to progress. Well in the next week we only managed 2 bosses, not the three we already had, and we lost one of our raid healers.

PotW #2! Water

For this week's Picture of the week theme, I selected water.  I love playing with pictures of water, because water is such a dynamic subject. You can take a fast picture and capture a moment of violence in perfect clarity, with drops suspended in the air, or you can take a long exposure (or several) to give a scene a dreamy quality, with the rushing water quieted into a dreamy blanket of probability. A calm body of water can be like a mirror for the scene beyond, showing you an upside-down world, sometimes blurring the lines between water and sky, or you can polarize the incoming light just right, and look straight through a clear body of water to the bottom.

Making a Business from Photography

Today I got my Massachusetts form ST-1 in the mail, which declares for the world that I can collect sales tax on tangible goods. It's another milestone for my business. The process of going from a person to a sole proprietorship has been relatively simple, and fun for me. what follows is a recounting of the steps I took, and some things I discovered along the way.

An old prime lens made new

My parents have an old film camera that probably needs some serious TLC to work again. And when I say my parents have it, I mean they had it, and now I have it in my possession. In the bag with the Olympus OM-10 was a Zuiko 50mm 1:1.8 prime lens, and a 2x tele-converter.  My friend amazon.com hooked me up with an inexpensive mounting ring to convert the OM system lens to the Canon EOS system.  I haven't done too much with it, but I already like what I see.  For an example of this lens in action check out my Bio page here. I sat down with this lens in a big room with some natural sunlight and did a self-portrait mini shoot, to come up with my new head shot.

Picture of the Week

Well, here it is, the time has come for my first picture of the week! I mentioned that I had some themes picked out for this project, but I managed to get stuck without the ability to shoot any of the themes I originally came up with.  What I came up with instead is some urban photography, since I found myself in Cambridge on the day I was shooting. I tried to find an architectural element that could tell a story.