Too many hobbies, not enough focus
I read a few blog posts by Niel Van Nickerk about balancing flash with ambient light and I found them very intriguing. The posts were basically a detailed discussion of how to control fill flash, which is the act of using flash in a daylight setting to fill in the shadows in an image. But …
If you've ever driven down Borthwick Ave past the hospital you may have noticed the Liberty Mutual building that I work in. You may have also noticed that it has quite a bit of nice landscaping around it. We have a large man-made pond wrapped by a walking path and two bridges. There are trees, …
We all have things that we depend on, things that make us say "without X, I just don't know how I'd get by". The boys can be a lot of work even for two parents, and without these five things, I just don't know how we'd do it. Pre-Made Formula: When a baby is hungry, …
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Welcome to Taming Twins, a new series of anecdotes from our experiences as the parents of twin boys. As we experience new things with our sons we will post them in this series. Feel free to laugh and cry with us, or just make fun of us if you want. I'm sure a lot of …
We were at our friend's house last weekend planting a memorial garden when this little baby squirrel hopped across the lawn out of nowhere. He was very young, definitely a baby and definitely without his family. He seemed too young to be afraid of humans so he did his best to integrate with us by …
Remember film cameras? Remember how you had to choose the correct film speed in order to get your pictures to come out? Oh c'mon, you remember - ISO speeds - those numbers that indicated how sensitive the film was. ISO 100 was only for pictures outdoors in the sunlight, ISO 400 was all-purpose, ISO 200 …
What they Are Sally baked her first batch of cupcakes for a paying customer this weekend and I wanted to document the event. When I wasn't giving the boys my attention, I was grabbing as many shots as possible. I didn't get a ton, but I got enough to celebrate with and I did some …
My CFO recently gave me the go-ahead to purchase some new lenses for my camera, so I purchased two: a Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 and a Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM. Both lenses are the highest quality that I have ever owned. I've been using the Canon 70-200 for about two weeks and I'm very impressed …
Panic! At The Disco released their new album, Vices & Virtues, this week. I'm a big Panic! fan (with or without the !) so I naturally preordered it and listened to all of the songs as soon as the album came out. I'm pretty impressed. If you're not familiar, Panic! released their first album in …
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My friends welcomed their son into the world and said farewell a day later. What had been a full term pregnancy with no problems turned into a nightmare in an instant. He moved and squirmed all the way through labor but upon entering this world his heart and breathing stopped. After being resuscitated and put …
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