So the Westboro Baptist Church (a British Anti-smoking group if their website godhatesfags.com is to be believed) was supposed to protest at Albany High and the SUNY building in downtown today. I forgot about it and then heard about it on the radio while I was getting ready for work. I figured I didn't have enough time to get to their first stop ( Read more... )

about three or four years ago, a guy i ran into while taking pictures at a couple protests around the plaza first asked me how I kept finding out about all of them (to which i answered, i just sort of go on my lunch break and people protest), and also asked if i had a flickr account. I didn't, and he suggested that i get one. well random guy i ( Read more... )

As foretold in a previous entry, Friday night I went to see one of Jim's bands play at Valentine's. I ended up taking over 800 pictures and whittled them down to 27. No flash and even with f1.8 lenses wide open I still needed to bump up the exposure and levels in post processing. I'm pretty happy with these, but some are showing noise banding, ( Read more... )

I'll admit it, there was some ice on the sidewalk around our house. Some of the neighbors use a snowblower on parts of our sidewalk (unasked), which then compresses the snow so that we can't shovel it up, the other parts got left in a similar fashion since there didn't seem to be much of a point once this was done. A couple of warm days then ( Read more... )

After a few months of thinking about it and then a month of intensely researching it, and then a week or so of figuring out if I could afford it, I got a new camera.

I didn't get it in time for last months roller derby, but this gave me one last try with my old Konica Minolta Z3. You can see the results here.


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I went to see a roller derby match a couple weekends ago. I got some pictures, but I really need a better camera for any sort of indoor sports photography. Although some interesting pictures did come out from following them around the track with a slow shutter speed.


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First game of Arkham Horror in the house and on the old table that my dad gave us.


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I went to see Rasputina the other night. It was a great show and I brought my camera along to take some pictures. I waited to long to leave for it though, so I couldn't get an up close seat, but I had a decent angle to get some shots. Click below for photos and exciting commentary.


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We couldn't take pictures during the inspection like I hoped, so I went through the pictures that we had taken when we first saw the house and at the open house. They are not the best, as I was almost shooting at random just to try to remember what was in there, but it should give a good idea of what the place is like.


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Today was the inspection of the house. The appointment was made last week by our buying agent, who gave the information to the selling agent. Somehow this information didn't make it to the family in the house, so we get there with an inspector, Susan's parents and both sets of my parents, our agent, Susan and me to be greeted by a slightly messes ( Read more... )