avablog

Now I understand what that means, and we were only cooped up inside for six hours or so on Saturday. What a nasty day! I did, however, manage to get outside and take some pictures of all the ice. Leah likes this one and this one: One thing the bad weather was good for was […]

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I wanted to post one of the pictures I took yesterday of Ava and her aunt Rachel. I wish I could have natural light with me wherever I was. Sounds like Rachel’s actually thinking about braving the mall today with Leah and Kevin’s mom. I wish them all the luck in the world.

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OK, so the name isn’t the best. Granted. But my front-runner for tastiest tech bauble of 2007 was reviewed today by Walt Mossberg’s protege Katherine Boehret. Originally only available in an SD version, my friend Andy alerted me last week to the news that the Eye-Fi now comes in a CF version, too. It’d be […]

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I’m in a real pickle (heh) about shopping for Ava’s Christmas gifts this year. For Pete’s sake, the kid’s only 3, and she already has rooms full of toys. She hasn’t touched some of these things in months, so I’m disinclined to add more to the heap. That said, I think this looks fun. Ava […]

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Now that it’s widely available here in town, I thought I’d mention that I recently had a couple pictures selected for the annual Friends of Hickory Hill Park calendar. They are July and August, and the images are, respectively: and… Leah and I were married about 20 yards from where I took these shots, so […]

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A colleague sent me this image and accompanying headline earlier today. They’re from Yahoo! Perfection fantasies to avoid Could you be setting expectations so high that your partner can’t live up to them? General consensus is that this fellow is a ringer for me. The closest comparison I could find is this: Leah points out […]

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Seems like a good time for one of these. I took this the other day as Ava sat in front of the TV, again. It’s actually a great time to get portraits of her, as the afternoon light really pours through the windows in our little TV room, and especially now that the leaves are […]

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Ava and I got to spend some one-on-one time together yesterday while Leah was off at a baby shower. We went up to the high school and played with her ball on the front lawn for a bit, then walked around back to look at the running track. I had her practice a couple sprint […]

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I really enjoy photography a lot, primarily because I believe it’s a medium that lets people express themselves in ways they might otherwise not. A certain angle, lighting choice, or expression can provide insights into a subject that aren’t obvious at first glance. I feel this phenomenon particularly acutely when I’m taking pictures of Ava. […]

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We took a drive out to Squire Point yesterday to take a stroll along the paths. We told Ava she should keep an eye out for pretty leaves, and we’d collect them to bring home so we could make a collage. She paid heed. It was just about a perfect day for a hike. Ava […]

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Some days I feel like my brains will run out of my ears if I tilt my head too far in one direction. Today is one of those days. Leah just called me at work (she has Fridays off) to let me know Ava has a fever and is draining copious amounts of green mucous […]

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It was an absolutely gorgeous day in Madison today. We walked to a little patisserie near Kevin and Rachel’s house for breakfast. There were some really cool bike racks outside the place: After a nice snack, we hoofed it the two miles or so over to the farmer’s market at Hilldale Mall. We stopped for […]

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This one was just too good to pass up. At one point during our time at home yesterday, Ava wanted to go outside and look at the rain. That happened to coincide with the students getting out of the nearby high school for the day, so we sat for a bit and watched the kids […]

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Here are some pictures I took out and about last evening before the sun set: (manual focus) This lens is pretty wide, which makes it a nice companion to my 50mm prime lens. Next up is to save my pennies for something in the 70-200 or 70-300 range, and I should have all my photo […]

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Grandma Georgie has a set of window decals for every event and season. Here, Ava’s helping G.G. put up the Halloween-themed pumpkins and skeletons on the TV room windows: It’s unlikely I ever would’ve gotten this shot with my A620. There just wasn’t enough light, and by the time the A620 grabbed focus, Ava would’ve […]

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I’ve been looking forward to today for a while. My brother got tickets to Pat Metheny‘s show at Hancher this evening, and they’re good seats. Kevin is driving down from Madison this afternoon to go with us, and it’s always good to see him. As an added bonus, the new lens for my new camera […]

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I’ve been taking lots of pictures the last couple days. My Flickr photostream is flowing pretty fast. I love running around and capturing as many different images of the same scene as I can. What did people do before the advent of CF cards? I remember flipping through the envelopes of photos my grandmother would […]

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Meredith Willson would’ve been proud. Between the UI’s homecoming parade on Friday night and the high school marching band competition that took place one block from our house on Saturday, Ava had her fill of drums, tubas, and flutes over the weekend. What’s more, the girls in the flag corps gave me a great opportunity […]

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Ava and I walked up the the nearby high school last evening to play with her ball. I used the opportunity to get some shots with the 75-300mm lens my friend Q loaned me. It’s a beauty. Not only did we have fun tossing the ball around, but I got some cool pictures, too. Here, […]

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What I need is a graph that shows the number of pictures I’ve taken over the last three years. I wonder if it will spike now that I have the new camera. Probably. Just as it did each time I’ve had a new camera. I think Flickr can do something like that. Too bad there’s […]

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