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I was left with about 10 exposures on this roll of Kodak Ektar 100 and I needed to finish it up. So it was time to grab Tony and attempt to keep him still for a few minutes and record his growth. It was painful, but I got a few good photos out of [...]

Photography has taken a back seat to everything else in my life. Sure, having a young child is challenging, but our lives are so busy with work and school it’s hard to find time to edit photos and post them on this blog. With that disclaimer (excuse), I present these black and white photos I [...]

Earlier this year Nilsa called me over to the computer to look at her newest find, a vacation house she thought we should rent for a week in the Outer Banks. With our busy lives I hadn’t given much thought to a vacation, but fortunately she was thinking about it! It turned out to be [...]

The first two photos were made back in late June, shortly after Tony passed six months, and the rest in early August just shy of his eight month “birthday”. Looking back on these photos a month and a half later, it’s amazing how much little man has grown. There is a level of maturity in [...]

It’s taken me weeks to get around to posting this, but life has been way too busy. June is almost over! We took Tony to his first backyard barbecue on Memorial Day (26 May 2008) and of course I have photos to prove it. As he gets older we are finding he can take more [...]

Here’s a couple of contrasty images I shot this past weekend. At the time I took these photos I knew that without a flash to fill in the shadows, I’d blow out the highlights and leave deep shadows by metering on the mid-tones (Zone V). In other words, I shot a normal exposure. Usually when [...]

This Mother’s Day was very special. Last year Nilsa was a mother to be. This year she has officially joined the club. We spent the Mother’s Day weekend visiting my folks and her folks, going to church, and letting Nilsa sleep in late! She keeps Tony and I fed and clothed so it’s not too [...]

We had one of those weekends where we worked on a job that we’d been talking about working on but never quite found the time to do. But all work and no play makes for work. And the weekends need to be about more than work. So to balance things out we took advantage of [...]

I love steam driven anything and a couple of years ago I stumbled upon a number of steam traction meets around the Maryland and Virginia area. One of the better shows is put on by the Maryland Steam Historical Society, Inc. in Arcadia Maryland, held every September. I went up with both MP’s around my [...]

I’ve spent many Friday or Saturday nights at Amada Amante listening and photographing the “The Three T’s”. In late July and early August I went, listened and photographed them two or three times. At one point I ran through four rolls of Delta 3200, Neopan 1600, Fuji Superia, and Porta 800 using both MP’s in [...]