Summer vacation?
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in food, gardening, hobbies | 2 Comments »As much as it seems as if I was away on vacation (as Thad is the only one blogging lately), life has been quite far from that. While we did go briefly to Mexico, where Boombadeus got to finally see where ...
If you like photography….
Saturday, July 19th, 2008 Posted in The Internet and The Web, opinion, photography | No Comments »...and you don't have The Boston Globe's The Big Picture in your RSS reader, I question your interest in the craft! It's a carefully selected compendium of excellent photography of recent news events. Some of the photos in the Tour de ...
What could possibly go wrong?
Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in geeky, hobbies, photography | 2 Comments »Earlier, I talked about how I got my Kodak Vigilant Six-20 and what it takes to get a roll of 120 film to fit inside of it. I also linked to the first (and so far only) set of photos ...
Fitting 120 in a space made for 620
Saturday, June 28th, 2008 Posted in geeky, hobbies, photography | 4 Comments »The other week, before filming an episode of Fork You, Marisa gave me a neat old medium format "folder" camera from her family's collection, a Kodak Vigilant Six-20. I was, and continue to be, thrilled with this fun little ...
Ahh, the Internet is an interesting place.
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in The Internet and The Web, double bass, geeky, hobbies | No Comments »I was looking through my stats on Flickr to see what's going on with my photos. I was surprised to see some references to Double Bass message boards linking to my Flickr pictures. Hmmm...
Polarizing results
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in architecture, hobbies, photography | 2 Comments »Ahh, filters. Apparently, it's a slightly controversial topic among photographers (touched on somewhat in this thread). The con side seems to view them as gimmicky and something that gets in the way of capturing an image. Essentially, more junk for ...
Old school fun
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in architecture, hobbies, photography | 5 Comments »In addition to our Canon Rebel XTi, we've got an old school Pentax K1000 35mm SLR camera. This is THE classic student film camera: a basic, fully manual 35mm SLR with basic controls that does what you tell it to; ...
All kinds of fun
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in architecture, geeky, photography, pipe organs, trains | No Comments »Today was a cool day. I managed to hit an incredible combination of my favorite subjects. Craftyangie needed to buy some clothes at the Macys in the former Wanamaker building in Center City, so we grabbed our cameras and ...
Ciclos*
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in gardening, hobbies, languages | 2 Comments »Ciclos: Cycles in Spanish. That's what having a garden is like. Cycles of beautiful lush gardens, flowers and outdoors; cycles of harvesting the produce you've raised from seed and cycles of cold that are enjoyed indoors, baking cookies and getting ready ...
Spring is here!
Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in gardening | No Comments »Well, not really, but this household has been taken over garden planning. This will be our third year at The Spring Gardens and I can't wait! Last week I ordered from Amazon the book You Grow Girl! by Gayla Trail. I've ...