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Plog 3-10-08: Whaaa? So, Saturday I went to a Camera Club outing. Unfortunately I got there a couple hours later then I wanted to. Luckily we found a campsite (the last one!) but by the tim ...

2009-01-12T03:54:45Z

darkdragon
Plog 3-10-08: Whaaa? So, Saturday I went to a Camera Club outing. Unfortunately I got there a couple hours later then I wanted to. Luckily we found a campsite (the last one!) but by the tim ...

Plog 11-1-08: Built To Last Finishing up vacation to South Dakota, the last photo trip I took was to this old place in the middle of nowhere. It was found by a family member while looking f ...

2008-12-06T08:58:47Z

darkdragon
Plog 11-1-08: Built To Last Finishing up vacation to South Dakota, the last photo trip I took was to this old place in the middle of nowhere. It was found by a family member while looking f ...

Plog 01-02-09: Pretty! Went out to the wetlands tonight to try out my new macro ring light. It is the cheap version and I guess I got what I paid for. The power was not great, I mean having ...

2009-01-02T12:51:08Z

darkdragon
Plog 01-02-09: Pretty! Went out to the wetlands tonight to try out my new macro ring light. It is the cheap version and I guess I got what I paid for. The power was not great, I mean having ...

Plog 4-12-08: Ah! Spider! Shooting some macro shots at a workshop with the local camera club. On the way out, while packing up we saw this guy in the corner. Didn't get a macro shot, but go ...

2009-01-06T01:32:35Z

darkdragon
Plog 4-12-08: Ah! Spider! Shooting some macro shots at a workshop with the local camera club. On the way out, while packing up we saw this guy in the corner. Didn't get a macro shot, but go ...

Plog 5-9-08: Fun Times So I did a little bit of experimental photography at the camera club meeting tonight. This is one of my favorite images. The only editing I did was basic stuff in Lig ...

2008-12-19T12:36:03Z

darkdragon
Plog 5-9-08: Fun Times So I did a little bit of experimental photography at the camera club meeting tonight. This is one of my favorite images. The only editing I did was basic stuff in Lig ...

Plog 4-18-08: Pretty Lights My first time shooting long exposure night-shot car lights. I'm hoping to get a better at this, but most importantly find a great/interesting place to shoot in t ...

2009-01-03T18:55:06Z

darkdragon
Plog 4-18-08: Pretty Lights My first time shooting long exposure night-shot car lights. I'm hoping to get a better at this, but most importantly find a great/interesting place to shoot in t ...

Plog 12-10-08: Final Projects III Ah, the portrait requirement. Went out to get some morning light at a lake. It was a really good photo session and I feel like almost all of the shots turn ...

2008-12-10T11:02:29Z

darkdragon
Plog 12-10-08: Final Projects III Ah, the portrait requirement. Went out to get some morning light at a lake. It was a really good photo session and I feel like almost all of the shots turn ...

Plog 02-15-09: New Places So today I found a new place to shoot just outside of town. It is called Floyd Lamb State Park and is a beautiful place. 4 ponds, lots of ducks and geese. I think ...

2009-02-15T11:06:28Z

darkdragon
Plog 02-15-09: New Places So today I found a new place to shoot just outside of town. It is called Floyd Lamb State Park and is a beautiful place. 4 ponds, lots of ducks and geese. I think ...

Plog 7-13-08: Baseball, Baseball, Baseball Went to my first night baseball game since 1994. It was tough, to say the least. In my opinion, I came out with pretty much zilch in the manner of ...

2008-12-06T10:01:54Z

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Plog 7-13-08: Baseball, Baseball, Baseball Went to my first night baseball game since 1994. It was tough, to say the least. In my opinion, I came out with pretty much zilch in the manner of ...

Plog 6-4-08: Baseball OOB What can I say? I started with a baseball shot I took and made an OOB experience out of it. I think it works well with the shot. [EDIT] This photo actually won 1s ...

2008-12-06T09:46:36Z

darkdragon
Plog 6-4-08: Baseball OOB What can I say? I started with a baseball shot I took and made an OOB experience out of it. I think it works well with the shot. [EDIT] This photo actually won 1s ...

Plog 10-11-08: Age of Chivalry Today I went to the renaissance fair to take some photos. Still practicing taking "event" photos. With the time crunch and unpredictable environment I have a ...

2008-12-06T09:07:28Z

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Plog 10-11-08: Age of Chivalry Today I went to the renaissance fair to take some photos. Still practicing taking "event" photos. With the time crunch and unpredictable environment I have a ...

Plog 2-24-08: Portraits Took part in the Sony/PopPhoto Digital Days seminar today. The best part about the class is that there is a model shoot. Most of the class was covering things I alre ...

2009-01-14T07:37:03Z

darkdragon
Plog 2-24-08: Portraits Took part in the Sony/PopPhoto Digital Days seminar today. The best part about the class is that there is a model shoot. Most of the class was covering things I alre ...

Plog 01-18-09: Technology Hi folks. I took some shots yesterday but forgot to upload them, again. Darn myself! Maybe I need an alarm or something for this. Today's photo is a snapshot for ...

2009-01-18T14:33:45Z

darkdragon
Plog 01-18-09: Technology Hi folks. I took some shots yesterday but forgot to upload them, again. Darn myself! Maybe I need an alarm or something for this. Today's photo is a snapshot for ...

Plog 3-2-08: Family What? So, you may not know this but a few years ago Las Vegas was trying to get more families to move in. They had a lot of fun things for kids to do and advertised the ...

2009-01-13T07:25:01Z

darkdragon
Plog 3-2-08: Family What? So, you may not know this but a few years ago Las Vegas was trying to get more families to move in. They had a lot of fun things for kids to do and advertised the ...

Plog 01-06-09: Ummmmm Yeah, I got busy last night and forgot to upload a shot. I almost missed tonight too! I'm so busy getting ready for CES, which starts tomorrow, that I haven't been ou ...

2009-01-06T14:11:46Z

darkdragon
Plog 01-06-09: Ummmmm Yeah, I got busy last night and forgot to upload a shot. I almost missed tonight too! I'm so busy getting ready for CES, which starts tomorrow, that I haven't been ou ...

Plog 01-03-09: Pinky & The Brain Not a whole lot photographically happening today. I'm working on a couple projects though. Anyhow, this is a shot of the really sweet bookends we found at ...

2009-01-03T12:07:32Z

darkdragon
Plog 01-03-09: Pinky & The Brain Not a whole lot photographically happening today. I'm working on a couple projects though. Anyhow, this is a shot of the really sweet bookends we found at ...

Plog 11-17-08: Hockey Time This is a little late, but here goes. Saturday night I shot my first ever hockey game. It was indoors at night. I've shot a lot of baseball, some soccer, but I h ...

2008-12-06T10:03:06Z

darkdragon
Plog 11-17-08: Hockey Time This is a little late, but here goes. Saturday night I shot my first ever hockey game. It was indoors at night. I've shot a lot of baseball, some soccer, but I h ...

Plog 8-06-08: Cupcake Photo taken for a photo-scavenger-hunt, this is photo #1 of the 13-photo list. Currently enjoying my new Canon G9 and carrying it everywhere!

2008-12-06T10:26:57Z

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Plog 8-06-08: Cupcake Photo taken for a photo-scavenger-hunt, this is photo #1 of the 13-photo list. Currently enjoying my new Canon G9 and carrying it everywhere!

Plog 6-18-08: It's Hot Out There Went to the "Strip" with the camera club tonight. Had a good time, though the time went to fast and I had to get home for bed. I liked the sad faces on the ...

2008-12-06T09:57:04Z

darkdragon
Plog 6-18-08: It's Hot Out There Went to the "Strip" with the camera club tonight. Had a good time, though the time went to fast and I had to get home for bed. I liked the sad faces on the ...

Plog 2-19-08: OOB Again with the not-daily updates. Been pretty busy these last too weeks getting ready for a Print Photo Competition with the local camera club. It's my first time doing a ...

2009-01-15T01:12:52Z

darkdragon
Plog 2-19-08: OOB Again with the not-daily updates. Been pretty busy these last too weeks getting ready for a Print Photo Competition with the local camera club. It's my first time doing a ...

Plog 01-21-09: Last One...Maybe Done with all my project concept shots. This is one of my favorites so far, this is taken with a point&shoot. I took it yesterday but wasn't feeling well and ...

2009-01-21T13:37:21Z

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Plog 01-21-09: Last One...Maybe Done with all my project concept shots. This is one of my favorites so far, this is taken with a point&shoot. I took it yesterday but wasn't feeling well and ...

03/27/09: Chimchar! I was at Fry's Electronics and put $1 into a Pokemon capsule machine. So lucky to get the toy that is my favorite Pokemon! Took this photo when I got back to the offi ...

2009-03-27T07:39:21Z

darkdragon
03/27/09: Chimchar! I was at Fry's Electronics and put $1 into a Pokemon capsule machine. So lucky to get the toy that is my favorite Pokemon! Took this photo when I got back to the offi ...

Plog 8-12-08: Neat I was playing with my G9 and the .25x fisheye adapter I put on it. I cut this image out of the image circle. The strange colors are caused by playing with the Levels in p ...

2008-12-06T11:09:58Z

darkdragon
Plog 8-12-08: Neat I was playing with my G9 and the .25x fisheye adapter I put on it. I cut this image out of the image circle. The strange colors are caused by playing with the Levels in p ...

Plog 01-09-0: CES Day 2 Using the Canon G9 went a lot better for me. I was able to get closeup shots of products and wide shots of booths. I guess that is the only problem with SLR cams, to ...

2009-01-11T02:26:10Z

darkdragon
Plog 01-09-0: CES Day 2 Using the Canon G9 went a lot better for me. I was able to get closeup shots of products and wide shots of booths. I guess that is the only problem with SLR cams, to ...

Plog 7-8-8: Woohoo! So a month or so ago I was checking OfficeMax for a printer. Well, while I was there I checked out the clearance bin (of course). In the bin was a 120GB laptop hard driv ...

2008-12-06T09:41:54Z

darkdragon
Plog 7-8-8: Woohoo! So a month or so ago I was checking OfficeMax for a printer. Well, while I was there I checked out the clearance bin (of course). In the bin was a 120GB laptop hard driv ...

Plog 03-12-09: Full Moon Noticed a full moon tonight with no cloud cover or wind. That is something that doesn't happen often here (almost always windy). Ran out and took a couple shots wit ...

2009-03-12T15:25:29Z

darkdragon
Plog 03-12-09: Full Moon Noticed a full moon tonight with no cloud cover or wind. That is something that doesn't happen often here (almost always windy). Ran out and took a couple shots wit ...

Plog 01-25-09: Animation Today I'm working on my animation, you may remember the figure from last week's images.The setup is very simple here, I'm working on a "walking test" which is just ...

2009-01-25T11:49:22Z

darkdragon
Plog 01-25-09: Animation Today I'm working on my animation, you may remember the figure from last week's images.The setup is very simple here, I'm working on a "walking test" which is just ...

Plog 01-04-09: Stikfas First off, I just want to thank everyone for your support and comments on my photos so far this year. You all are great! What the heck is this image, you may be aski ...

2009-01-04T13:16:04Z

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Plog 01-04-09: Stikfas First off, I just want to thank everyone for your support and comments on my photos so far this year. You all are great! What the heck is this image, you may be aski ...

Plog 6-15-08: Microphotography Macro is soooo last year. The new black is Microphotography. Well, at least for me. I built my own lens today and this is one of my first test shots. It works ...

2008-12-06T08:43:18Z

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Plog 6-15-08: Microphotography Macro is soooo last year. The new black is Microphotography. Well, at least for me. I built my own lens today and this is one of my first test shots. It works ...

Plog 7-7-8: Ungh. So here's the deal. I'm not posting a 4th of july picture with fireworks. Why? Because you've seen enough and also because I already have a whole gallery of fireworks sho ...

2008-12-06T10:05:21Z

darkdragon
Plog 7-7-8: Ungh. So here's the deal. I'm not posting a 4th of july picture with fireworks. Why? Because you've seen enough and also because I already have a whole gallery of fireworks sho ...

Plog 8-13-08: Komodo Dragon Today after work, I went to the local aquarium, Shark Reef @ Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino. I have been there a few times, but they got a new Komodo Dragon a few ...

2008-12-06T10:23:30Z

darkdragon
Plog 8-13-08: Komodo Dragon Today after work, I went to the local aquarium, Shark Reef @ Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino. I have been there a few times, but they got a new Komodo Dragon a few ...

Plog 10-17-08: Yummy I'm no food photographer (obviously) but I threw together this dish yesterday for lunch. It is all 100% healthy and all vegi (unless olive is a fruit, or if you count t ...

2008-12-06T09:54:19Z

darkdragon
Plog 10-17-08: Yummy I'm no food photographer (obviously) but I threw together this dish yesterday for lunch. It is all 100% healthy and all vegi (unless olive is a fruit, or if you count t ...

Plog 12-15-08: Oops! Las Vegas is not a city that is geared towards snow. Today it snowed. This is what happens when trees are set up without the "what if snow happens" idea running through ...

2008-12-15T13:15:16Z

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Plog 12-15-08: Oops! Las Vegas is not a city that is geared towards snow. Today it snowed. This is what happens when trees are set up without the "what if snow happens" idea running through ...

Plog 01-15-09: New Office After a mere 7 years at my job, they moved us from an "outbuilding" to the main building. This here is my new cube. The red chair is my footrest :-) The new a ...

2009-01-15T23:19:23Z

darkdragon
Plog 01-15-09: New Office After a mere 7 years at my job, they moved us from an "outbuilding" to the main building. This here is my new cube. The red chair is my footrest :-) The new a ...

Plog 10-29-08: Sunrise Vacationing (visiting family) in South Dakota this week. I got up at 4AM(!) yesterday to get out to an abandoned homestead for sunrise. I ended up only doing photos f ...

2008-12-06T09:45:54Z

darkdragon
Plog 10-29-08: Sunrise Vacationing (visiting family) in South Dakota this week. I got up at 4AM(!) yesterday to get out to an abandoned homestead for sunrise. I ended up only doing photos f ...

Plog Day 2: Red Rock Nevada Ok ok. It is actually Day 3. I missed day 2. I got some test photos yesterday, but nothing really worth posting. Today though, spent about 5 hours or so taking p ...

2009-07-28T20:29:39Z

darkdragon
Plog Day 2: Red Rock Nevada Ok ok. It is actually Day 3. I missed day 2. I got some test photos yesterday, but nothing really worth posting. Today though, spent about 5 hours or so taking p ...

Plog 8-05-08: Philips 5.6-Inch Digital Photo Frame If anyone out there is looking for a nice photo frame. This is it. I've had it since March but just loaded up an SD card with photos and s ...

2008-12-06T09:18:23Z

darkdragon
Plog 8-05-08: Philips 5.6-Inch Digital Photo Frame If anyone out there is looking for a nice photo frame. This is it. I've had it since March but just loaded up an SD card with photos and s ...

Plog 12-14-08: So sad. Came out from lunch today and had a flat tire. Husband and I spent about 30 or so minutes changing the tire (my first time changing one on my truck, his first time ev ...

2008-12-14T11:08:50Z

darkdragon
Plog 12-14-08: So sad. Came out from lunch today and had a flat tire. Husband and I spent about 30 or so minutes changing the tire (my first time changing one on my truck, his first time ev ...

Plog 01-23-09: Competition So tonight was camera club competition night. It happens every month at Nevada Camera Club. The way it works is you get a ribbon for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place which is ...

2009-01-23T16:58:57Z

darkdragon
Plog 01-23-09: Competition So tonight was camera club competition night. It happens every month at Nevada Camera Club. The way it works is you get a ribbon for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place which is ...

Plog 8-02-08: Sooo Tired Managed to get up at 5am this morning to go out to the wetlands and get some photos before it got too hot (was 88 when I left the park at 8:30am, 93 ten minutes lat ...

2008-12-06T08:31:10Z

darkdragon
Plog 8-02-08: Sooo Tired Managed to get up at 5am this morning to go out to the wetlands and get some photos before it got too hot (was 88 when I left the park at 8:30am, 93 ten minutes lat ...

Plog 02-19-09: Ungh Came in to this today. Mainenance switched the corner walls of my cube yesterday while I was working from home. Unfortunately they didn't tell me that they were going ...

2009-02-19T04:20:46Z

darkdragon
Plog 02-19-09: Ungh Came in to this today. Mainenance switched the corner walls of my cube yesterday while I was working from home. Unfortunately they didn't tell me that they were going ...

Plog 7-19-08: Still Hot Out Here Trip to Zion over the weekend. I didn't get a lot of images - it was SO dang hot (over 100f) and crowded too. Normally I go to Zion in winter when it is per ...

2008-12-06T11:16:36Z

darkdragon
Plog 7-19-08: Still Hot Out Here Trip to Zion over the weekend. I didn't get a lot of images - it was SO dang hot (over 100f) and crowded too. Normally I go to Zion in winter when it is per ...

Plog 4-26-08: What? Getting gear ready for my first trip to the press area of a baseball game since 1995! Hopefully it is as fun as I remember. I'll be posting some images here tomorrow nig ...

2008-12-31T13:29:20Z

darkdragon
Plog 4-26-08: What? Getting gear ready for my first trip to the press area of a baseball game since 1995! Hopefully it is as fun as I remember. I'll be posting some images here tomorrow nig ...

Plog 5-8-08: Autofocus is King So, I got a new Canon 2x converter for my 70-200mm f4L. Yeah, I know that I lose autofocus with that. I just wanted the reach. Went to the park to test out ...

2008-12-19T12:57:20Z

darkdragon
Plog 5-8-08: Autofocus is King So, I got a new Canon 2x converter for my 70-200mm f4L. Yeah, I know that I lose autofocus with that. I just wanted the reach. Went to the park to test out ...

Plog 5-25-08: Overcast Days are Great Went out to the park yesterday for some shots with the new 70-200 f2.8L + 2xTC. No IS on that lens, so some of my shots got a bit blurry. However, the ...

2008-12-06T08:56:35Z

darkdragon
Plog 5-25-08: Overcast Days are Great Went out to the park yesterday for some shots with the new 70-200 f2.8L + 2xTC. No IS on that lens, so some of my shots got a bit blurry. However, the ...

Plog 01-28-09: Models I've been busy gathering car models for my "big" animation. This is a photo of one of my models - a Mustang. I try to stay away from red and black, but that is the maj ...

2009-01-28T13:52:15Z

darkdragon
Plog 01-28-09: Models I've been busy gathering car models for my "big" animation. This is a photo of one of my models - a Mustang. I try to stay away from red and black, but that is the maj ...

Plog 01-19-09: Still Snapping Still working on the technology theme, DVDs is something I'm working with here. Not having a lot of luck with this so far, perhaps I can try some flash gels fo ...

2009-01-19T12:46:01Z

darkdragon
Plog 01-19-09: Still Snapping Still working on the technology theme, DVDs is something I'm working with here. Not having a lot of luck with this so far, perhaps I can try some flash gels fo ...

Plog 01-16-09: Doll Clothes 2.0 Second try at doll clothes. I've figured out how to do the cuffs (seams) and size it correctly. I still need to figure out the collar and get some different ...

2009-01-16T14:08:24Z

darkdragon
Plog 01-16-09: Doll Clothes 2.0 Second try at doll clothes. I've figured out how to do the cuffs (seams) and size it correctly. I still need to figure out the collar and get some different ...

Plog 01-08-09: CES Day 1 Very difficult to get a decent shot in this low & mixed lighting. I keep trying to do better and actually will be taking my G9 tomorrow instead of the 40D. That way ...

2009-01-09T04:54:49Z

darkdragon
Plog 01-08-09: CES Day 1 Very difficult to get a decent shot in this low & mixed lighting. I keep trying to do better and actually will be taking my G9 tomorrow instead of the 40D. That way ...

Plog 01-07-09: CES Day 1/2 The first day of CES, they are still working on a lot of the booths. Only exhibitors and press were allowed in. I was actually suprised by how few press there wer ...

2009-01-07T14:33:38Z

darkdragon
Plog 01-07-09: CES Day 1/2 The first day of CES, they are still working on a lot of the booths. Only exhibitors and press were allowed in. I was actually suprised by how few press there wer ...

Plog 3-15-06: Another Model? Yes, another model shoot. This time it was at the photo club meeting. I, however, forgot to bring my 40D so I took a few shots with my Lumix LX2. The photo he ...

2009-01-11T10:35:52Z

darkdragon
Plog 3-15-06: Another Model? Yes, another model shoot. This time it was at the photo club meeting. I, however, forgot to bring my 40D so I took a few shots with my Lumix LX2. The photo he ...

Plog Day 2b: Thriling Alright, so tonight I went to the top of the Stratosphere to test out my new nifty fifty (50mm f/1.4). This was my first time trying to take some photos at night with ...

2009-01-27T05:00:58Z

darkdragon
Plog Day 2b: Thriling Alright, so tonight I went to the top of the Stratosphere to test out my new nifty fifty (50mm f/1.4). This was my first time trying to take some photos at night with ...

Plog 12-8-08: Final Projects II Another requirement of my final project for class is that I needed to do a shot in a studio. Because one of the toughest things for me is to do High-Key cor ...

2008-12-08T08:48:13Z

darkdragon
Plog 12-8-08: Final Projects II Another requirement of my final project for class is that I needed to do a shot in a studio. Because one of the toughest things for me is to do High-Key cor ...

Plog 7-15-08: AWESOME! Ok, so I JUST discovered that I can email photos to my Smugmug. Somehow I missed that info when I was looking at the account stuff. Anyhow, this is so great because ...

2008-12-06T08:46:54Z

darkdragon
Plog 7-15-08: AWESOME! Ok, so I JUST discovered that I can email photos to my Smugmug. Somehow I missed that info when I was looking at the account stuff. Anyhow, this is so great because ...

Plog 4-4-08: Have you heard this one? It's been a while. I've been shooting some film, with my new Holga. So far, 2 rolls of 120. Still learning what/how to get the best fun images. This o ...

2009-01-08T05:35:50Z

darkdragon
Plog 4-4-08: Have you heard this one? It's been a while. I've been shooting some film, with my new Holga. So far, 2 rolls of 120. Still learning what/how to get the best fun images. This o ...

Plog 12-20-07: Mmmmm Santa The picture to the left is a 100% chocolate Santa, approximately 3ft tall. Yummy. Now I know the reason for the season. ;-) This is from the gift shop at the Et ...

2009-01-25T05:48:01Z

darkdragon
Plog 12-20-07: Mmmmm Santa The picture to the left is a 100% chocolate Santa, approximately 3ft tall. Yummy. Now I know the reason for the season. ;-) This is from the gift shop at the Et ...

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2008-08-02T14:37:48Z

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Plog 3-10-08: Whaaa? So, Saturday I went to a Camera Club outing. Unfortunately I got there a couple hours later then I wanted to. Luckily we found a campsite (the last one!) but by the tim ...

Plog 11-1-08: Built To Last Finishing up vacation to South Dakota, the last photo trip I took was to this old place in the middle of nowhere. It was found by a family member while looking f ...

Plog 01-02-09: Pretty! Went out to the wetlands tonight to try out my new macro ring light. It is the cheap version and I guess I got what I paid for. The power was not great, I mean having ...

Plog 4-12-08: Ah! Spider! Shooting some macro shots at a workshop with the local camera club. On the way out, while packing up we saw this guy in the corner. Didn't get a macro shot, but go ...

Plog 5-9-08: Fun Times So I did a little bit of experimental photography at the camera club meeting tonight. This is one of my favorite images. The only editing I did was basic stuff in Lig ...

Plog 4-18-08: Pretty Lights My first time shooting long exposure night-shot car lights. I'm hoping to get a better at this, but most importantly find a great/interesting place to shoot in t ...

Plog 12-10-08: Final Projects III Ah, the portrait requirement. Went out to get some morning light at a lake. It was a really good photo session and I feel like almost all of the shots turn ...

Plog 02-15-09: New Places So today I found a new place to shoot just outside of town. It is called Floyd Lamb State Park and is a beautiful place. 4 ponds, lots of ducks and geese. I think ...

Plog 7-13-08: Baseball, Baseball, Baseball Went to my first night baseball game since 1994. It was tough, to say the least. In my opinion, I came out with pretty much zilch in the manner of ...

Plog 6-4-08: Baseball OOB What can I say? I started with a baseball shot I took and made an OOB experience out of it. I think it works well with the shot. [EDIT] This photo actually won 1s ...

Plog 10-11-08: Age of Chivalry Today I went to the renaissance fair to take some photos. Still practicing taking "event" photos. With the time crunch and unpredictable environment I have a ...

Plog 2-24-08: Portraits Took part in the Sony/PopPhoto Digital Days seminar today. The best part about the class is that there is a model shoot. Most of the class was covering things I alre ...

Plog 01-18-09: Technology Hi folks. I took some shots yesterday but forgot to upload them, again. Darn myself! Maybe I need an alarm or something for this. Today's photo is a snapshot for ...

Plog 3-2-08: Family What? So, you may not know this but a few years ago Las Vegas was trying to get more families to move in. They had a lot of fun things for kids to do and advertised the ...

Plog 01-06-09: Ummmmm Yeah, I got busy last night and forgot to upload a shot. I almost missed tonight too! I'm so busy getting ready for CES, which starts tomorrow, that I haven't been ou ...

Plog 01-03-09: Pinky & The Brain Not a whole lot photographically happening today. I'm working on a couple projects though. Anyhow, this is a shot of the really sweet bookends we found at ...

Plog 11-17-08: Hockey Time This is a little late, but here goes. Saturday night I shot my first ever hockey game. It was indoors at night. I've shot a lot of baseball, some soccer, but I h ...

Plog 8-06-08: Cupcake Photo taken for a photo-scavenger-hunt, this is photo #1 of the 13-photo list. Currently enjoying my new Canon G9 and carrying it everywhere!

Plog 6-18-08: It's Hot Out There Went to the "Strip" with the camera club tonight. Had a good time, though the time went to fast and I had to get home for bed. I liked the sad faces on the ...

Plog 2-19-08: OOB Again with the not-daily updates. Been pretty busy these last too weeks getting ready for a Print Photo Competition with the local camera club. It's my first time doing a ...

Plog 01-21-09: Last One...Maybe Done with all my project concept shots. This is one of my favorites so far, this is taken with a point&shoot. I took it yesterday but wasn't feeling well and ...

03/27/09: Chimchar! I was at Fry's Electronics and put $1 into a Pokemon capsule machine. So lucky to get the toy that is my favorite Pokemon! Took this photo when I got back to the offi ...

Plog 8-12-08: Neat I was playing with my G9 and the .25x fisheye adapter I put on it. I cut this image out of the image circle. The strange colors are caused by playing with the Levels in p ...

Plog 01-09-0: CES Day 2 Using the Canon G9 went a lot better for me. I was able to get closeup shots of products and wide shots of booths. I guess that is the only problem with SLR cams, to ...

Plog 7-8-8: Woohoo! So a month or so ago I was checking OfficeMax for a printer. Well, while I was there I checked out the clearance bin (of course). In the bin was a 120GB laptop hard driv ...

Plog 03-12-09: Full Moon Noticed a full moon tonight with no cloud cover or wind. That is something that doesn't happen often here (almost always windy). Ran out and took a couple shots wit ...

Plog 01-25-09: Animation Today I'm working on my animation, you may remember the figure from last week's images.The setup is very simple here, I'm working on a "walking test" which is just ...

Plog 01-04-09: Stikfas First off, I just want to thank everyone for your support and comments on my photos so far this year. You all are great! What the heck is this image, you may be aski ...

Plog 6-15-08: Microphotography Macro is soooo last year. The new black is Microphotography. Well, at least for me. I built my own lens today and this is one of my first test shots. It works ...

Plog 7-7-8: Ungh. So here's the deal. I'm not posting a 4th of july picture with fireworks. Why? Because you've seen enough and also because I already have a whole gallery of fireworks sho ...

Plog 8-13-08: Komodo Dragon Today after work, I went to the local aquarium, Shark Reef @ Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino. I have been there a few times, but they got a new Komodo Dragon a few ...

Plog 10-17-08: Yummy I'm no food photographer (obviously) but I threw together this dish yesterday for lunch. It is all 100% healthy and all vegi (unless olive is a fruit, or if you count t ...

Plog 12-15-08: Oops! Las Vegas is not a city that is geared towards snow. Today it snowed. This is what happens when trees are set up without the "what if snow happens" idea running through ...

Plog 01-15-09: New Office After a mere 7 years at my job, they moved us from an "outbuilding" to the main building. This here is my new cube. The red chair is my footrest :-) The new a ...

Plog 10-29-08: Sunrise Vacationing (visiting family) in South Dakota this week. I got up at 4AM(!) yesterday to get out to an abandoned homestead for sunrise. I ended up only doing photos f ...

Plog Day 2: Red Rock Nevada Ok ok. It is actually Day 3. I missed day 2. I got some test photos yesterday, but nothing really worth posting. Today though, spent about 5 hours or so taking p ...

Plog 8-05-08: Philips 5.6-Inch Digital Photo Frame If anyone out there is looking for a nice photo frame. This is it. I've had it since March but just loaded up an SD card with photos and s ...

Plog 12-14-08: So sad. Came out from lunch today and had a flat tire. Husband and I spent about 30 or so minutes changing the tire (my first time changing one on my truck, his first time ev ...

Plog 01-23-09: Competition So tonight was camera club competition night. It happens every month at Nevada Camera Club. The way it works is you get a ribbon for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place which is ...

Plog 8-02-08: Sooo Tired Managed to get up at 5am this morning to go out to the wetlands and get some photos before it got too hot (was 88 when I left the park at 8:30am, 93 ten minutes lat ...

Plog 02-19-09: Ungh Came in to this today. Mainenance switched the corner walls of my cube yesterday while I was working from home. Unfortunately they didn't tell me that they were going ...

Plog 7-19-08: Still Hot Out Here Trip to Zion over the weekend. I didn't get a lot of images - it was SO dang hot (over 100f) and crowded too. Normally I go to Zion in winter when it is per ...

Plog 4-26-08: What? Getting gear ready for my first trip to the press area of a baseball game since 1995! Hopefully it is as fun as I remember. I'll be posting some images here tomorrow nig ...

Plog 5-8-08: Autofocus is King So, I got a new Canon 2x converter for my 70-200mm f4L. Yeah, I know that I lose autofocus with that. I just wanted the reach. Went to the park to test out ...

Plog 5-25-08: Overcast Days are Great Went out to the park yesterday for some shots with the new 70-200 f2.8L + 2xTC. No IS on that lens, so some of my shots got a bit blurry. However, the ...

Plog 01-28-09: Models I've been busy gathering car models for my "big" animation. This is a photo of one of my models - a Mustang. I try to stay away from red and black, but that is the maj ...

Plog 01-19-09: Still Snapping Still working on the technology theme, DVDs is something I'm working with here. Not having a lot of luck with this so far, perhaps I can try some flash gels fo ...

Plog 01-16-09: Doll Clothes 2.0 Second try at doll clothes. I've figured out how to do the cuffs (seams) and size it correctly. I still need to figure out the collar and get some different ...

Plog 01-08-09: CES Day 1 Very difficult to get a decent shot in this low & mixed lighting. I keep trying to do better and actually will be taking my G9 tomorrow instead of the 40D. That way ...

Plog 01-07-09: CES Day 1/2 The first day of CES, they are still working on a lot of the booths. Only exhibitors and press were allowed in. I was actually suprised by how few press there wer ...

Plog 3-15-06: Another Model? Yes, another model shoot. This time it was at the photo club meeting. I, however, forgot to bring my 40D so I took a few shots with my Lumix LX2. The photo he ...

Plog Day 2b: Thriling Alright, so tonight I went to the top of the Stratosphere to test out my new nifty fifty (50mm f/1.4). This was my first time trying to take some photos at night with ...

Plog 12-8-08: Final Projects II Another requirement of my final project for class is that I needed to do a shot in a studio. Because one of the toughest things for me is to do High-Key cor ...

Plog 7-15-08: AWESOME! Ok, so I JUST discovered that I can email photos to my Smugmug. Somehow I missed that info when I was looking at the account stuff. Anyhow, this is so great because ...

Plog 4-4-08: Have you heard this one? It's been a while. I've been shooting some film, with my new Holga. So far, 2 rolls of 120. Still learning what/how to get the best fun images. This o ...

Plog 12-20-07: Mmmmm Santa The picture to the left is a 100% chocolate Santa, approximately 3ft tall. Yummy. Now I know the reason for the season. ;-) This is from the gift shop at the Et ...

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Plog 1-30-08: Getting Closer Right now, there's lot going on with me - two photo projects and a video tutorial project. Problem is, they all have the same deadline - this weekend. Hectic ...

Plog 6-7-08: Portraits Got a very awesome new flash bracket which I'm testing out tonight. My first portraits in my new "home studio". Using my limited gear and the new bracket (which has a ...

Plog Day 3: Oh noes! A werewolf@! Picture taken and converted via photoshop. Taken today, my niece playing with a new werewolf mask we picked up for Halloween. Pretty nice mask, my dog hat ...

Plog Day 1: Sssnnaaake! Well, sittin at work working. Just thought I'd take a short break and post my very first Plog. This is a picture of a snake fingerpuppet that sits on my desk. In fro ...

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Plog Day 8: Ren Fair! Went to the Ren Fair today. It got a bit too warm for me to stay too long, but I did manage to catch one of the jousting matches (and some other things too). Even thou ...

Plog 4-27-08: Photographer Gotta get to bed, but here's a photo of my shadow I took at the game today. I had a blast and am excited to do it again next month, though I think I will wear mor ...

Plog 5-2-08: Xander Took this shot for a Dgrin weekly challenge, just a few minutes ago actually. Quick shot of my hand and my Pleo "Xander". Came out exactly how I wanted the first time. ...

Plog 5-10-08: Spider! On the way to bed tonight, my husband spotted this little fella on the doorjamb and called me up to check it out. I spent about an hour or so taking pictures of it. It ...

Plog 6-8-08: Ouch! Who Put the Wall Here? Went out for more baseball shots. Some day I'll actually figure out how to get a nice sharp image, but until then at least the players do some funn ...

Plog 01-01-09: Happy New Year! This is my second year participating in the Daily Photo community. Last year was fun, but I didn't do very well in getting a new photo up each day. I aim to ...

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Taken with SmugShot on my iPhone

Plog 12-18-07: Ah! A Ghost! So there was this little girl ghost trying to take back her skull from my truck. My super awesome black kitten chased her away though. Now I can sell her skull o ...

Plog 12-6-08: Final Projects This semester, I've been taking Intermediate Photography at the local college. Today I went out to get some images for my final project. In total I have to ha ...

Plog 5-22-08: Is it Grainy? Yeah I know, it's been a while. I've been busy - aparently too busy to post a POTD. Over the last couple days I've been trying to figure out if my 40D has a no ...

Plog 2-3-08: Las Vegas Wetlands Went out to the wetlands this evening. Unfortunately I didn't get much in the way of a good entry. The wetland park here was just started a few years ago an ...

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Plog 1-28-08: Guns @ Work Well, I'm getting closer to a picture a day. Only 4 days apart this time. This is my mouse at work. Yes it's a gun mouse. It's very annoying for other people to ...

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