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Feb 15, 2012 • So I pretty much forgot that I have the WordPress app on my phone and now that I actually have an iPhone, I’m no longer constrained to my computer for blogging with photos! So this is a first and we’ll see how it goes. I’m not really sure how things will work as far as...
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Jan 19, 2012 • When Toni and I decided that we were going to take one last trip outside of Japan before we moved, we had a few choices. The top of the list consisted of New Zealand, Vietnam and China. In the end, we decided on China because we wanted to see what is one of the most...
Saw a lovely sight this morning looking across the flight line at NAF Atsugi and as luck would have it, I had my brand spanking new 70-200mm 2.8L and 1.4x III! I shot this at 280mm and I think f9, then adjusted the contrast in Aperture to match what I saw. One really cool thing...
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Dec 18, 2011 • We’re back from a week long trip in China and I really gotta say, it’s not what I expected. Awesome, just unexpected. We visited Xi’an and Beijing, in that order, and had guided tours arranged through a local travel agency here. Having only a week (5 days really when travel is factored in), we tried...
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Oct 30, 2011 • Wow, I really hadn’t realized that it had been so long since my last post. No excuses for it, just an oops moment. So I’ve been struggling with the Lion upgrade and Aperture along with the legions of others using older hardware. I did finally stumble onto a solution that has reverted my machine to...
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Aug 12, 2011 • Having just returned from Pattaya, Thailand, I was going through my photos and found two things: one, that I didn’t take all that many pictures of Pattaya itself (at least not with my camera, my wife’s has some I think), and two, that almost all of the shots I liked were from one place: the...
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Jul 25, 2011 • This one goes back quite a ways to my times shooting for the Marietta Daily Journal in scenic Marietta, GA. This was my first ever photo job (the paper, not the concert) and I learned by being thrown into the deep end. It was about a year into working there (six months at the smaller...
A few weeks ago, Toni and I made a trip down to the end of the Odakyu line at Odawara to see the castle and some other assorted places. It was the first touring that we’ve made the time to do in quite some time and it felt really good to get out and see...
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Jun 27, 2011 • A little over a week ago, I went with my friend, Kelly, and a small tour group to Mt Nyukasa aka Fujimi Panorama. The Panorama promised was not in the cards, however, as the temperature was slightly low and the humidity slightly high resulting in lovely, low clouds. When we rolled up to the base...
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Jun 26, 2011 • Yesterday I took the half hour walk into base, mostly so I wouldn’t have to recover my car later. There was drinking on the menu and due to Japan’s very strict drinking and driving laws, the policy here is literally “one and done.” For 8 hours. So the hotrod stayed home. Walking outside means that...
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Jun 22, 2011 • Over the past few weeks, I’ve been archiving my photo libraries trying to put some sensible order into the chaos. As I went back through several years of images, I realized that there were some that had been glossed over for any number of reasons… I suspect that laziness played the largest part. So what...
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Within my mind as a photographer and artist, I’ve always been interested in the possibility of a way to expand certain photos I’ve made into a different frame of meaning. To shift a pure photograph into something that captures the essence of what I saw and felt when perhaps, for any number of reasons, a...
This past weekend, my wife and I took some friends to Kamakura for a bit of walking around and for me, some much needed photo time. Our friends had never been there before and Toni had really only seen the Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu Shrine and some of the coastal towns between Kamakura and Enoshima. I’ve done...
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Apr 24, 2011 • In Tokyo, the trains stop every night sometime between midnight and 1:30 or so. If you’re in town and you miss that last train, you’re pretty much stranded for four or five hours when they start running again for early morning commuters. Normally, there is no shortage of revelers in the Shinjuku area during this...
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Mar 27, 2011 • After spending a couple of weeks in Fallon, NV, Toni and I traveled to Point Mugu, CA, about an hour down the 1 from LA. The scenery on the coast was lovely and it was very nice to be staying so near the beach, but what really captivated me were the ghostly shapes of the...
