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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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Welcome Home, Steve


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This guy and I are showing Madison how Ukrainians drink tonight. Peace Corps Third Goal.  But seriously, Steve is finally coming home after an extended stay in Ukraine for paid work. It’s time to welcome him home in style.

March 2, 2013

Heinz Promo


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Going along the lines of the post from the other day, I found another video I made and uploaded it. Not nearly as good but it was still fun to make and I think it only took me the better part of an hour. I think I ended up winning a gas card or something […]

February 27, 2013

Comics No More


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Sometime late in high school I started reading web comics–this was in addition to the traditional print comics I read every Sunday in the paper–because I simply love comic strips. This love came back in second grade while visiting my grandparents in Chicago. My grandma gave us each a copy of Calvin and Hobbes: Revenge of […]

February 27, 2013

The Next Spielberg


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I was recently flipping through my high school year book from senior year. I’ve come a long way. I also completely forgotten that I was voted “Most Artistic” and “Most Likely to be the next Steven Spielberg.” Yeah. Those are related actually. This caused me to dig through my closet and all the digital files […]

February 25, 2013

The Internet is for Cats


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I take too many photos of my cat. I’m becoming that guy. I feel less ashamed if I share them with people. Not by shoving my phone in people’s face saying things like, “Look at my cat, isn’t she the most adorable?” No, I choose to show them by either texting them the photos at […]

February 23, 2013

An Octopus in the Mouth


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[pe2-image src=”http://lh3.ggpht.com/-IPfExtWylf4/UR8b6bAS3UI/AAAAAAAAO4s/TvhKzlf7SBw/s144-c/20130215_195910.jpg” href=”https://picasaweb.google.com/111197070419838127380/InstantUpload#5845421531845549378″ caption=”20130215_195910.jpg” type=”image” alt=”20130215_195910.jpg” pe2_single_image_size=”w450″ ]  This is what we ordered as an appetizer on the last date I was on. We both read the menu and it said, “Baby Octopuses” but neither of us thought they’d actually be whole, baby octopuses. She had a few, and I ended up eating most of them. […]

February 21, 2013

Writing Dilemma


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I mentioned the other day that I’m working on editing my senior thesis from college into a publishable book (more likely a novella, given the length). So far, I’ve taken care of the tedious work of importing it and formatting it nicely in Scrivener but I’m stuck at a standstill now. My problem lies in […]

February 19, 2013

Travelling Friend, Almost


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A few weeks back, I was excited for Lyuda. She messaged me to let me know that a family living in Chicago had contacted her about an au pair job. For those of you who don’t know, an au pair is typically a young woman who lives in a home and raises the children. For some […]

February 19, 2013

Working on Publishing


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Back in college, I needed to put together a senior thesis for my creative writing degree. What came out of that was The Life of Charles Wright. While at the time I wasn’t completely happy with how it turned out, it has recently grown on me. I still think it needs a heavy hand of […]

February 17, 2013

Which Bond is Best


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After recently seeing James Bond 007 – Skyfall and I want to watch the rest of the James Bond films, in order. Is this a good idea, or a horribly bad one? I’ve really only ever seen the recent Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and From Russia with Love. So this actually could be a bad idea and I don’t […]

February 3, 2013