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Daily Photos 2009

Updated: Jul 01, 2009 12:46pm PST

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/

If you'd like to purchase any of the photos in this gallery, please feel free to email and we can arrange that. ESP Requires that I put "Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadpelphia, PA" on the photo. My watermark will not be on any prints.

Eastern State Penitentiary

Built in 1822-29 this prison housed a few famous inmates until it clos ...

Updated: Feb 21, 2009 9:58pm PST

A Day at the Beach - June 12, 2009 : A friend and I took a spontaneous trip to the Jershey Shore. Luckily, I had my camera with me.
More about the Casino and old amusement park can be found here: http://www.laffinthedark.com/articles/Asbury/asburypark/intro.html

A Day at the Beach - June 12, 2009

A friend and I took a spontaneous trip to the Jershey Shore. Luckily, ...

Updated: Jun 13, 2009 8:05am PST

"A Streetcar Named Desire" - Princeton University : A Streetcar Named Desire
Berlind Theatre at Princeton University
Director: Tracy Bersley ● Costume Designer: Kristin Fiebig
Lighting Designer: Jen Schriever ● Set Designer: Jeff VanVelsor
Sound Designer: Joe Varca

"A Streetcar Named Desire" - Princeton University

Most Popular Photos

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.

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.

June 2, 2009
This is the best photo I've ever taken of a child. He was just hanging out at the bar with his sunglasses on, just asking to be photographed.
The lighting is from a flash that I accidentally bounced off of his dad's face. Oops.

March 7, 2009
Cat Portrait Day
It was a beautiful Spring day, so I let the cats out on the porch. They were screaming to have their spring portraits taken.

March 8, 2009
Another Macro from my office supply drawer...

September 2, 2008
Happy Birthday To Me!

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

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 30, 2008
Apple Pies

Like I said yesterday, I was going apple picking with some friends. We came back and made 4 pies!

February 12, 2009
Delicious Coffee Beans...
I saw some nice sunlight coming in the window again, and decided it's time to make a few more stock photos. I don't sell many, but that fish oil photo from last year is my biggest seller.
My roommate told me last night that caffeine could be causing my eczema to flare up. Those are not happy words for me. Has anyone found truth in this statement??

I know I'm posting this a little early. I have to work a long 16 hour day, so there's not much time for taking photos.

January 15, 2009
Comfort Food.
My surgery is today at 11am. Wish me luck! I'm starving, because they don't let you eat before surgery. Posting a photo of food was hard to do.
I stocked up on some easy to prepare comfort food yesterday.
Photos of the excised screws are to follow in the next few days.

March 28, 2009
The Watering Hole
I had the camera during my dinner break yesterday, so I took a shot of the bar.
This was a 5 sec exposure, so I'm surprised that Mike (the bartender) is in focus.

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.

May 27, 2009
Guess What It Is...

Sorry, no pics from the hospital this morning.

September 27, 2008
Chocolate and Peanut Butter chips

I took this a few days ago. I've been a little lazy, so I'm putting up some photos from last Wednesday when I went crazy, running around the house with the camera.

Also, I finally finished the application to iStock.com, so now I have the mindset of making stock photos. You may see a lot of those in the near future. Sorry...

Sidebar:
Why did I have no problem "publishing" my own book in less than a weekend, but I can't find a single picture that I want to have printed and hung on the wall in my living room?

January 3, 2009
Dynamo felt left out yesterday, so here he is.
My hip was particularly painful this morning, so I was going to post a photo of my cane today, but it didn't come out the way I wanted it.
The eyelash whisker over his left eye is driving me nuts...

February 4, 2009
SNOW!!!
It's still not enough snow to satisfy me, but we did get about 4 inches of snow last night. When I went to get the mail this morning, this light post was still illuminated, so I tried to use it as an interesting background with the bright blue sky. Thoughts??

My Alternate Photo for Today is: How To Make Yellow Snow

October 31, 2008
This is Henry, chewing on a cup. He was a peanut M&M for Halloween.
This is only the second photo I've processed from last night's pumpkin carving festivities. You'll definately be seeing more of this cute M&M again. I was too tired to do anything but upload the skull photo last night, and now I'm on way to work.

Happy Halloween!

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.

January 14, 2009
My roommate doesn't cook...

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.

June 28, 2009
Here it is, Ladies and Gentlemen!
This is a photo of a laser printout of the x-ray that was taken about 5 mins after I woke up after surgery.
The tubes on the left going into my hip went to a hemovac, which basically sucked out any extra blood in that area for the next few hours. Then they actually put that blood back into me.
I'm currently able to get around my apartment without any walking devices, although I feel more secure with a walker, so I use it anyhow. The physical therapists would be mad if they knew I was walking without the walker...

June 1, 2009
A Man and his Bratwurst.

September, 28, 2008
"It Buckles, It Buttons, It Zips!"
Have you ever seen a musical about 25+ times and then had the songs stuck in your head? I have, and this my way of trying to force them OUT of my head!

Today is my day off, and I have plans to go apple picking and making fresh apple pies. There will be no musical singing at the orchard!

October 2, 2008
Wet 'Maters
This shot is a few days old. I used the old corn syrup + water trick to get the misted water to stay on the tomatoes. They made some nice sticky tomato sauce the next day.

January 16, 2009
The infamous screws! They're finally out after 6 years. Yes, these are the Real Screws!
Here's the x-ray, in case you missed it last month.

September 26, 2008
The Leaves are Changing!!
Bring on the Snow!
Fall is my favorite season, with winter coming in at a close second. I hope this winter brings lots of snow. The last few years have been really weak.

September 21, 2008
Random shot from Winberie's at dinner break.
I got to playing around in Lightroom again. I hope she doesn't get mad at me for posting such a beautiful picture of her...

October 6, 2008
Purple and White Calla Lily

I saw these at Whole Foods today and just had to have them. (I guess that makes me kind of gay, doesn't it?) I've never seen a two toned calla lily before. (Or maybe I have, and just didn't have the photographic state of mind that made me want to buy them.)

Here's some more shots of these lillies. I'd love your comments!

I've also been teaching myself more about sharpening in Photoshop. Thoughts? Is this photo too sharp?

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!

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