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Daughter does her homework with a laptop and a notebook. You know, that other kind of notebook.

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There is a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt about sensor cleaning. Frankly, I think it’s outrageous that there are no good self-cleaning sensor technologies out there. To think that a whole day’s shoot can be ruined because of a foreign object on the sensor that you cannot see until the shoot is over, it’s [...]

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We made another snowman today.

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Son has a set of flashcards which feature landmarks of the world. He made a list of the landmarks he wants to visit. Unfortunately, he wrote it on the back of something else, so it’s a little hard to read.

Manchu Picchu
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Hoover Dam
Statue of Cristo Redentor (in Rio de Janeiro)
Golden Gate Bridge
Gateway Arch [...]

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The kids enjoyed the snow today.

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Daughter got braces this week. She got them in cute blue and pink colors. When they come out, she will have had them for two years, which at that point will have been nearly twenty percent of her life.

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Somebody on an online forum asked if High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography wasn’t “cheating” somehow. My response:
As for whether HDR is “cheating”: I’m sure the first time somebody picked up a digital camera, the film shooters thought it was “cheating.” The first time somebody picked up a Leica, the sheet film shooters thought it was [...]

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On our last day of the extended (two-week!) holiday break, Son and I spent some time on the couch together watching five episodes (two and a half hours) of the PBS show Travels to the Edge with Art Wolfe. It’s a documentary/travel show which follows renowned landscape and nature photographer Art Wolfe to exotic locations [...]

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