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Eastern State Penitentiary : Built in 1822-29 this prison housed a few famous inmates until it closed in 1970 and became a National Historic Landmark. There's a lot more info at http://www.easternstate.org/

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Daily Photos 2008 : This gallery contains Daily Moments that provoked a photo. I hope to add a new photo every day, but with my unpredictable schedule, there will be a few days lost. HERE is a link to last year's Daily Photos.

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July 26, 2008
Anyone know what kind of spider this is? This guy has been hanging around my front door for over a week now. He usually runs and hides behind some molding as soon as I get near, but this time I think he was sleeping, so I managed to get a shot of him.

I wish I was able to get more of the web to appear in the shot, but it just wasn't the right conditions. I've heard of spraying hair spray on the web to get them to be seen, but I thought would be a bad thing to do to a fully functional web. (and I didn't have any hair spray...)

March 26, 2008 (3 of 3)
I caught Mia Hiding behind the vertical blinds in my living room today. She was just soaking up some afternoon sun when she heard the camera clicking and looked right at me.

I played around with a bunch of post processing with this shot. This is a simple Sepia version that I really enjoyed, but here's another version with some color. Tell me which one you like better.

With 3 photos today, I officially made up for the last 2 days that I missed.

Feb 11, 2008 (1 of 2)
Here's Mia playing in a chair. I had a small photo shoot with her yesterday. She's pretty quick, so it's very hard to get good shots of her. She also kept sliding off the chair, and I kept putting her back because I thought the dark chair went well with her fur.

You all must think I put the macro lens down for 2 days, but you would be wrong. Yesterday's and Today's photo were taken with the Macro lens. It's a sweet piece of glass.

There are some more cute photos of Mia HERE.

I'm off today, so It will be a 2 photo day. The second photo is

September 2, 2008
Happy Birthday To Me!

I made my favorite black devil's food cupcakes yesterday. Butter cream Frosting of course...

August 7, 2008
Self Portrait - Because it's been a while.

Some of you Smuggers take daily self portraits, or at least partial ones... I would rather stick a fork in my eye.

Anyhow, here's me. One of my friends already told me that I look possessed in this pic (probably due to my left eye going a little cross-eyed), and someone else made fun of my hat. The only thing I noticed is that one of my teeth looks shorter than the rest. Hillary? Can you fix that?

Here's a few other shots.

11/4/2007
This is a picture I took during our tech rehearsal this weekend. I really like it, so I thought I'd share, because I rarley get to photograph people. This is totally un-photoshopped, and it was taken in full color, not sepia.

August 14, 2008
Eastern State Penitentiary
Some other SmugMuggers (Alex, Leslie, Hillary, and John) and I went to the Easter State Pen in Philadelphia yesterday.

The Penitentiary was built from 1822-1829 and was used until it closed in 1971. There are many more juicy details at http://www.easternstate.org/.

More of my ESP Photos can be found HERE.

August 25, 2008
Quesadillas...

This is a shot from a late night quesadilla mission. I needed a DP, and there were some beautiful colors in the kitchen. I was too lazy to get the tripod out, or this shot would be much crisper. This was my second dinner after 3 bottles of wine and fun with friends. Give me a break, and wish me luck for the 2 long weeks ahead of me.

August 15, 2008
Dynamo

Because Alex asked about my cat's the other day, I realized it's been a few weeks since I've posted any shots of the cats.

Dynamo is a very gray cat, and he tends to be hard to photograph. He always ends up looking flat and boring, so I usually add some sort of PP.

Here's some more shots of Dynamo. The first 5 are new.

Thanks for all of your comments on the Eastern State Photos!

May 27, 2008
A Luna Moth that I named Frank...

I came home from a BBQ the other day and found this huge Luna Moth on the wall. I recently read about capturing them and putting them in the fridge to slow them down. This guy wasn't very active, so I didn't bother with that. He let me move him around and put him on the floor so I could get a picture of his fuzzy face.

Here's a few more shots...

Feb 24, 2008
An emotional shot from the dance show last night. I only took about 5 pictures last night, so I was glad that one of them came out OK. Here was my alternate/obligatory macro photo for the day.

1/3/2008
The Keg Inspection
There's a big superbowl party at my house tonight. I had to get the keg early because I have to work this afternoon. As soon as I put the tap on, Dynamo had to come check it out and make sure everything is ok for the party. Then I tapped myself an ice cold beer at 11am. What a beautiful day...

May 30, 2008
I went for a 3½ mile walk on the towpath by the D&R Canal in Princeton yesterday. There wasn't any interesting wildlife to photograph like the last time I went out on the path.

This is a shot of the handrail on the bridge where we finally decided to turn around. I took about 6 shots of these bolts. Each one had a different bolt in focus, but I found this one most eye-catching.

Hillary, I don't have any caterpilars in my shot, but how do you like my little corner of bokeh?

2/6/2008
Bored on a warm day and playing with my macro lens, again...
This is a stack of Origami Paper that I found while looking for things to take pictures of.
This one is at f/4.5, and HERE is one at f/32. I have one of almost every f/stop in between. It was sort of a fun DoF experiment.

May 24, 2008
Dynamo
I haven't played with selective coloring in a while, so I wanted to see if I could do it without looking up help. I'm not a photoshop professional, but I was able to recall all the steps without help. This isn't the best photo in the world, but I thought it was a good candidate to show off his eyes.

August 29, 2008
MMMMmmmm, Tasty...
I think Mia just ate a bug...

On a side note, I just found out that I won a DGrin challenge with my Eastern State Penitentiary Photo that I posted here on Aug 14. I came in 5th, but I still won $40 in SmugMug credit.

July 25, 2008
Back to the Daily Photos
I figured I'd take some easy macro shots to get back in the groove. Here's another shot of my jeans that I had to choose from for today's shot.
I've been working my ass off (literally) for the past month. I didn't have the motivation to take any daily photos during my month long job as Stage Supervisor for Opera NJ.

To give you an idea of what I've been doing, imagine 3 opera sets in one theatre at the same time. One of the sets is meant for a much larger stage that what we were on. And of course, it was rare that a set could stay on stage for more than 2 days at a time. There were many days when we had all 3 sets on the stage at some point. My crew of interns and I managed to get through it alive, but we still have a few more days left until we get all the sets packed up and returned. I may miss a few daily photos until I'm officially done, but I'll back, full force, in no time.

The other day,I realized that I've been doing daily photos for over a year now. I took a look at my old 2007 gallery, and was amazed at how much I've grown and learned. I thank all of you on the DP Community for your support, help, and motivation.

May 29, 2008
This is a macro shot of a flower from my strawberry picking fun yesterday. It wasn't the greatest of conditions for macro shooting, so I was pretty impressed how well this ended up. This is straight out of the camera, handheld, with windy weather.

Here's a Few Shots of yesterday's farm animals.

September 3, 2008
Quiet Afternoon...
I took this shot on Monday. I like the soft focus of the shot, but the composition is lacking something.
Thanks for all the Birthday wishes yesterday!

August 12, 2008 (2 of 2)
Saffron -- The World's Most Expensive Spice

I had the macro lens out and ready, so I kept looking for small things to shoot. I was looking through the spice rack, and came across my small supply of saffron. Does anyone really have a large supply of saffron? Anyhow, I looked through my stack of colored origami paper to find something with a little contrast or something that would compliment the beautiful reds, yellows, and oranges of the saffron. For some reason, I chose the fluorescent green. I think it works...

March 4, 2008
Kiwi Strawberry
Nothing too exciting, I just happened to have both kiwis and strawberries in the fridge, so I got out the trusty macro lens, and started shooting.

Here was option 2 for the day.

Jan 8, 2008
Believe it or not, I was drinking some wine tonight. This bottle was on the coffee table right next to my wine glass because I was too lazy to get up and walk to the kitchen when my glass was empty. The background is actually my TV about 8' away.
The "believe it or not" was a bit of sarcasm. For those who don't know me, I very rarely go a day without some beer or wine. My roommate works full time at the Corkscrew Wine Shop in Princeton, so we always have wine in the house.

My second choice photo for today was this one. We have a lot of free time at work, and my friends were playing a board game. I took some shots of the exciting action, and then played with them in Lightroom a little.

August 31, 2008
Welcome to McDonalds! May I take your order?

I found this cicada out on the porch, I took pictures, he gave me a Big Mac, end of story. Here's some more shots.

1/5/2008
'Nuf Said...
I went to the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ Today. Here's the rest of the photos.

July 28, 2008
The Beer Float

Yuengling Black & Tan plus Chocolate Ice Cream = Pretty darn tasty.

I hosted a small party last night at my apartment. The Interns from my summer job needed a place to stay for their last night in Princeton. At a previous party earlier this month, the interns discovered the "BeerMosa." They wanted something new and a little "heavier" so they invented the Beer Float. It was surprisingly not as disgusting as it sounds. Try It!

May 1, 2008
BAILEY

My Roommate's Girlfriend just got a puppy. While she was at work, we stole Bailey to take him for a walk around Princeton's Campus. It was more of a "carry" instead of a walk. He was really tired, and just wanted everyone to stop and pet him.

HERE'S A LINK to more photos of Bailey. Let me know what you think of them. I sort of wanted to get a "photo session" for him. (Puppies grow up too fast.) Here's a Sepia version of this photo, but I'm not sure if I like it. It seems rather blah, but i feel like it has a little more mood to it.

August 19, 2008
Fly Tongue

So there was this slow fly that was flying around my living room. I managed to catch it before the cats did. I put a drop of honey on some paper, and waited for him to get stuck in it while I put the macro lens on.

Once he freed himself from the honey, the cats had a field day. R.I.P. Fly...

I lead such an exciting life, don't I?

Here's some other shots.

June 8, 2008
Bailey came over for another visit last night. I'm honestly sick of fruit, so I was glad to have some shots of something cute. I'm sure your all sick of looking at fruit as well.

This picture was a little bland in color, so I swapped it to sepia, and I'm much happier with it.

And as usual, Here's a link to Bailey's Gallery with a few more new shots.

Feb 15, 2008
You've seen this before.
I tried again with my macro lens today. I like the DoF, but I think I went a bit too far... Unfortunately, I didn't have my tripod, so I had to use ISO800 to get anything good. I uploaded this at work, so there's no photoshopping to it. I plan on posting a few other shots in my macro gallery later tonight.

August 24, 2008
This should give away yesterday's photo guessing.
I saw this honeycomb at Williams-Sonoma for $2, so I had to buy it for a quick photo.

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