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Thirty-seven didn’t turn out to be the year I expected it to be, in some ways that was good and in some ways that was very much not good. Leading off with the bad because it really felt like a dark cloud over the year, work drove me to some dark places. For me, I […]

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Photographing a Lunar Eclipse on 35mm Film

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If you were to ask my wife why I do all of the hard things I do, she’ll tell you that it is because I can. And she isn’t wrong. I genuinely love to find out about something new, or old that I should be able to do and then spend days and weeks researching […]

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Six sixes. Four nines. Three twelves. Two eighteens. One thirty-six. The past year started out with my baby girl turning one. It’s hard to think she’s approaching two so quickly now. We threw her a big bash to ring in the whole year. Two months later she started walking and has been getting fast and […]

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Madison, Wisconsin Capitol – Fall 2006

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I don’t have the usual gallery to share today. However, I do have 20 exposures from a roll of 24 all stitched into a single image. I used my Kodak Retina Reflex S camera with a 135mm telephoto lens, all of which was mounted on a tripod. This was the first roll I shot once […]

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High School – Roll 13

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This is the last of my rolls from my film photography class in high school. Following this class, I had a semester of digital photography which I didn’t enjoy. That class had too much emphasis on Photoshop edits and those aren’t really my thing. These photos, however, are not the last of the photos I […]

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Arizona Vacation


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I’m really kind of late on this but last month Ellie and I took a vacation to celebrate her graduating, my ability to take a vacation, and our one year anniversary. It couldn’t have been timed better either because Wisconsin had just taken a hit of -20 degree weather and we needed to warm up. […]

February 17, 2014

Kawasaki KZ650


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Today, I only have one motorcycle because today, I finally sold the 1978 Kawasaki KZ650 I bought a few years back with the intention of getting it running. It’s a good feeling because I felt guilty in recent years for not having the time to work on it. [pe2-image src=”http://lh6.ggpht.com/-jWkahrW_rC4/TjBOACYN4OI/AAAAAAAABoM/BATtbnGtX0I/s144-c-o/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg” href=”https://picasaweb.google.com/111197070419838127380/MyProject?authkey=Gv1sRgCK-_meOF1IC-OQ#5634088896385900770″ caption=”1978 Kawasaki KZ650″ type=”image” […]

January 28, 2014

Ellie’s Christmas Gift


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In my mind, gifts need to be perfect and that’s why I hate them. I have trouble giving something to someone if there’s no utility or practicality or any real reason the recipient would like to receive the gift. I can’t just go to the store and pick something out for someone and think it’s […]

January 7, 2014

A Look Back at 2013


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I struggled in 2013. I grew. I survived. I loved. I hated. I laughed and I cried. But I struggled and that’s what really made 2013, 2013 for me. Let me break down break it down. 2013 started and looking back, it was clear that I didn’t know how I was supposed to treat it. […]

January 3, 2014

Fill in the Blank: The Book


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So Christmas came and went again, and while I’m not entirely sure about it, I do believe I complained at some point about how I hate shopping for gifts and how it stresses me out. Somehow, I managed to a fine job of it this year and had ideas for everyone by around Thanksgiving. I […]

December 29, 2013

Meeting Friends


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Recently, I met with a friend who I haven’t seen since I before I left for the Peace Corps. She’s now in the same situation. I was in a year ago. She just moved home with her parents due to life events. She has no job and no car. She isn’t really sure what she […]

December 20, 2013

My Problem with the Social Web


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There’s the long reason why I left Facebook and there’s the short reason. The short reason is that I was tired of people over-sharing for the sake of over-sharing, or having their opinions reinforced, or whatever. It became less and less my thing. I didn’t have time to keep up with it all anymore (not […]

December 17, 2013

Whitewater, WI and the Peace Corps


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So get this, Peace Corps announced their “Top Volunteer-Producing States and Metropolitan Areas for 2013” today, and it’s surprising, but my tiny hometown barely made one of the lists. At first, I got really excited thinking it was me who made the list, but it’s for 2013 and it’s been over a year since I got […]

December 11, 2013

Visiting Grandparents


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On Saturday, I drove down to Chicago with my dad and our dog Mable. We went down to visit my grandparents. I haven’t seen them since before I left for the Peace Corps, so I was long overdue. Before we stopped by their house to visit, we went to a tamale factory a couple blocks […]

December 9, 2013