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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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Thor and Other Nerd Thoughts


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I watched Thor: The Dark World last night, and I wasn’t very impressed. While it I enjoyed watching, Thor is still my least favorite of the Marvel storylines on-screen now. Two saving graces are Kat Dennings and Natalie Portman, who are always great to see on-screen (can anyone else not get enough of Kat Denning’s […]

November 16, 2013

Dinner Shot


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Dinner last night. I’m trying to make healthier dinners by adding a lot of veggies into them. Vegetables are good for you, generally low calorie, and they fill you up. Plus, they’re natural. I tried eating a huge salad for dinner the other day but I defeated the healthiness factor of it by covering it […]

November 15, 2013

Cat Feeding


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I love that when I wake up in the morning, there’s a cat sitting on my chest, waiting to be fed. I love that she sits in between the shower curtains while I shower, waiting to be fed. I love that once she’s fed, she purrs. I really love that once she’s fed, she still […]

November 13, 2013

Dungeon Master


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I don’t think I’ve talked about this much, if at all, but I really aspire to be a Dungeon Master for a game of Dungeons and Dragons. I’ve read great things about successful people playing the game and I want to be one of those people. I want my friends to be those people. I […]

October 22, 2013

PageRank 3


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You want to hear a good one? My blog. This little old website I started back in 2007, has gotten a Google PageRank of 3 as of press time. For being such a little blog that I was under the impression of that no one reads, this is a big deal for me. Just for […]

October 4, 2013

September was Success


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I got burned out. Or I fell back into my hole of seclusion. Something happened towards the end of September and I stopped updating. I was doing really well, then I missed a day or two and posted late and it became the habit. Life went on without me posting, but I still felt guilty, […]

October 2, 2013

Religion


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Religion is not something I talk about a lot. I have my reasons and they’ll likely come up but I just wanted to start by telling you that I don’t think you need to join my religion. I don’t want to join yours. I don’t care which religion is best. I was born and raised […]

September 26, 2013

If I hadn’t Joined the Peace Corps


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What might my life be like, if I hadn’t gone off to Ukraine with the Peace Corps? This question ran through my mind every single day I was there. I thought about it for hours upon hours. I’d sit on trains thinking about it, staring out at the Ukrainian countryside and sweating because everyone refused […]

September 25, 2013

My Dream Job


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You know how many times someone has asked me what my dream job would be and I’ve told them only to see the surprise on their face. Those people must not really know. What do you think my dream job would be? A writer? A stay-at-home dad? A project manager at a small translation agency […]

September 22, 2013

10 Things I Want to be Remembered For


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Someday, I will die. I hope to go peacefully as my grandpa did, lying on the couch in his sleep. I don’t want to be as young as him because he never really got to know any of his grandkids but still, peacefully in my sleep. At the end of my life, I hope someone […]

September 20, 2013