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How to: Tight macro of a Crocus.

I had a question about how I got a REALLY tight shot on a Crocus. So, first the set up: There were two Foam Boards. The black was used as a background and the white was used to help reflect the light a bit. The white also worked as a ...

May 20, 2009

Bacon Explosion

I did it. I made my first Bacon Explosion. The Bacon Explosion is the brain child of BBQ Addicts. It has since been featured all over the internet, and elsewhere, including The New York Times. So, yes, this was VERY good. Think of a bacon covered meatloaf, ...

February 14, 2009

Recipe – Carne Asada Fries

This came from a conversation with my girlfriend. She is from California, and that is a regional food dish in southern California, with some suggesting it originate from San Diego. After some research on the internet and talking to her, this is what we came up with. ...

February 4, 2009

Project 365 – Week 5

Today marks week FIVE of Project 365. I played around a bit more with mundane items. I think the baseball worked out VERY well, and I know that it is one of my fairly popular pictures on Flickr. I had other exciting news. I have done ...

February 1, 2009

Project 365 – Week 4

This marks week 4 of Project 365. We travelled up to Bogus basin, went to Gymnastics, took pictures of miniatures, did a couple of creative things, took a picture of the statehouse, and then phoned one in. :-) This is my favorite for the week. This ...

January 25, 2009

Above the Clouds and in the Fog

Tanya, Madi, and I took a trip up to Bogus today to take pictures. The cloud/fog layer dissipated somewhere between 5000 and 6000 feet opening up a great vista, of clouds. I have only seen this once before, and it is truly breathtaking. In the fog layer, ...

January 18, 2009

Project 365 – Week 3

Week 3 has arrived. It is a little difficult at times getting good pictures. A few of these, I phoned in, and were not nearly as good as I would have liked. But, I did keep doing 1 picture a day. Woods in HDR: Idaho City Woods and ...

January 17, 2009

Recipe – Sausage-Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms

For dinner, I threw together some sausage in a portobello mushroom. It was QUITE delicious, but with my girlfriend's garnish, it turned into not only a feast for the stomach, but also a feast of the eyes. This was set up on a grey foam board background, taken ...

January 14, 2009

A Depth of Field primer.

After a recent conversation, I really got into thinking about Depth of Field, and thought I would post something about it. My girlfriend was taking some pictures and we got to talking about depth of field. Well, it seems that she had been taking pictures at f/1.8, from ...

January 12, 2009

Project 365 – Week 2

Here are this week's photos from Project 365. This week has seen me taking pictures of my cats, miniature painting, dinner, friends in Boise, and the Boise Depot, at night. So, from this point on, I will be posting photos from Sunday to Saturday. That means that ...

January 11, 2009