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My daughter Kaedee and I love looking at the night sky.  We’ve craned our neck until they were stiff looking for meteors, froze looking at constellations and watched a full lunar eclipse once.  Our favorite though is taking pictures of the moon. It’s easy, doesn’t require really special equipment, happens a lot, and the results are great if you know a few tips. (And
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During our vacation in Connecticut recently we have gotten into a tradition with our friends of lighting off fireworks and sparklers.  Minor fireworks have recently become legal in Connecticut and so they are still fresh and novel.  Unlike Tennessee, where you can buy enough at one time to rival displays put on by the Grucci family (and blow yourself up), the kind in Connecticut
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Many of you know that I work for Advanced Photographic Solutions, one of the country’s largest (and dare I say best) school, sports and volume labs. We see tens of thousand pictures a week and while most are great, some, … not so good. Bad, Terrible, Embarrassing. So for a little fun this week I give you www.badyearbookphotos.com. It’s a site dedicated to users
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I am in the process of transferring lots of files over from an older desktop computer to a shiny new laptop (isn’t it nice!) and I was reminded… There’s nothing like a good backup! It’s been easy because I have good backups of most of my documents and installation programs. And I know we are protected due to our double-layer backup procedure: Automatic backups
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I’ve written before about the ending of Kodachrome – Kodak’s flagship film that captured the truest colors and was used for a majority of the ground-breaking photography over the years. And what a fitting retirement that Kodak and National Geographic thought up. They gave the very last roll ever made to Steve McCurry – an award winning photojournalist who’s iconic picture Afghan Girl was
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