Title? I don't need no stinkin' title!

So, I posted up a photo of Long's Peak and got a couple of comments on it, one of which was about cropping it.

Eventually I had the time to revisit the photo and do the suggested work on it.

First question is this: why a 10:8 proportion? Just one I hadn't really heard of related to photography (which just shows what I have to learn :)

At any rate, during the process of cropping I made a mistake that I turned out to like as well - I didn't notice that I had the grayscale layer active (from the… Continue

Well, it was actually on Sunday. Due to some family issues we had Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday this year. All was going well, I got the turkey in on time and all was coming together.

I took the turkey out of the oven set it on the stove, and put the rolls in to warm. As we're getting everything on the table, we started to smell something burning.

Check the rolls - they're OK.

Bottom of the oven - messy, but nothing apparent.

Burners? Likewise.

One of the guests noticed smoke coming from th… Continue

I got up early because my wife told me our daughter had a 7AM soccer game. Turns out there's a slight misunderstanding. Amazing how much difference one little (well, OK, it's a capital) letter can make.

As long as I was up and I couldn't go fire up the table saw I thought I'd grab the camera and head out for a bit of a walk. I ended up going farther than I intended, but it is a nice day.

There's been a lot of construction just north of our house. There are some businesses and a housing develop… Continue

Let me start off by saying that we're all here to socialize and share some pictures.

Having said that, I thought I'd write up a short post that has a discussion on some terminolory with a couple of links.

First, ISO. ISO refers to the sensitivity that film has to light. A higher ISO number means the film is more sensitive to light. This sensitivity has a cost though - a grainier picture. Now, if we're using digital then we have an ISO equivalent. It has the same effect. Here's a tutorial that… Continue

(and an accusation - we'll get to that later)

So, I took a walk around a small local reservoir Sunday afternoon. Tom Frost Reservoir at the corner of 128th Avenue and Lowell Ave in Broomfield, just a couple three miles from our house.

I pulled into the parking area and while I was getting the camera and tripod out I heard a hawk. I looked around, and in a half-dead tree I saw this one:

… Continue