Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
Being a photographer, I often read posts and articles on improving my craft, and one suggestion is to participate in a photo challenge. A lot of people to the 365 (or 366, in 2012) challenge, which is a photo a day for a year, and … no thanks. When I worked from home, I may [...]
My love for Photojojo is not a new topic here, and I even included their iPhone lenses in my photography gift guide. Well, guess what? I GOT THOSE LENSES FOR CHRISTMAS. (I’m not yelling. I’m just excited.) For the past five Christmases or so I’ve requested (and received) some pretty great camera gear. My 70D, [...]
Last year, I told you guys about creating bokeh with custom shapes. Ah, that little baby snow dude. He’s back in our great room again this year. I did give the basic settings for creating good bokeh, but I didn’t expand on it. Here is the quick and dirty (heh) tutorial that I shared: You [...]
Photography can be is an expensive hobby. There is the big, fancy camera body and the big, fancy lenses and the big, fancy photo editing software. If you have a photographer in your life and don’t have a budget of THOUSANDS of dollars for presents (or you are a photographer and you don’t want to [...]
If you’ve been around here for any length of time, you know that I am a fan of Instagram, and Catherine is too. Christmas is around the corner (as Hannukah, and so many other holidays) and that means that it’s time for PRESENTS. There isn’t much that I need for Christmas, but there are a [...]
Last week, I saw a few photos in my Instagram feed where my friends had mentioned using the Snapseed App. And that it was free! I am a HUGE lover of Camera+ for photo editing but I tried Snapseed out and I love it, too. I don’t think it will replace Camera+ for me, but [...]
My (new) sister-in-law is in her second year of acting school and has done modeling on the side. I did the wedding photos for her and my brother on their big day and she asked me to take some headshots for her before she heads back to the Big City. I could have used my [...]
You’ve probably figured this out by now, but taking photos in bright sunshine isn’t the best for portraits. Squinty eyes, harsh shadows and the wrong colour temperature mean that while you can most definitely capture moments, great portraits aren’t going to happen. Good ones, maybe, but not great ones. Light really is King when it [...]
The love of iPhoneography and Instragram is not unknown. You have a lightweight camera in your hands with which you can take photos and edit them and share them instantly. It is easy to ignore that you have a big, fancy camera in your purse. Except, you have a big, fancy camera in your purse. [...]
As I mentioned last week, my family and I ventured to the Oregon Coast. I’m not sure if you’ve been there – if not, YOU SHOULD GO – but if there’s something that the Oregon Coast delivers, it’s The Pretty. It’s beautiful when it’s sunny and it’s beautiful when it’s rainy. Case in point: This [...]
It’s Canada Day today. Most Canadians will be celebrating by drinking beer and watching fireworks and stalking the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Me, I’m celebrating by going off the grid. Well, going mostly off the gird. As little off the grid as I can manage. I am going to be clinging to the grid [...]
So the other week I went to SeaWorld, and they were all, like, bring a bathing suit, which was, on the one hand, terrifying, but on the other, intriguing (swimwear at SeaWorld could mean… swimming at SeaWorld! With, like, their creatures!) It also raised the very important of issue of how, if there were going [...]
I’ve written a lot about Instagram here, I know. (Instagram – iPhone photo-sharing app. Keep up with me, people.) But, you guys, it is like a core part of my very being. It is how I am recording my children’s lives. It matters. And it matters almost as much as the Camera+ app. I couldn’t [...]
Imagine, if you will, discussing matters of philosophy, whether God loves an object because it is holy or whether the object is holy because God loves it. And then, imagine your cat videobombing you. “What’s this, Dad? Dad, what’s this? What’s in there? Huh? Dad? Mrow? The question really is, is the cat holy? Or [...]
I take a lot of photos of my kids. A lot of photos of my kids. More than I know what to do with. More than I can fit on my blog or in a Twitter stream or on my Facebook page or even in a good old fashioned hold-in-your-hands photo album. My life is, [...]
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