The images from my new camera are huge– 6000×4000 pixels– so when I post them here, I need to re-scale them (in theory WordPress can do that automatically, but it’s never worked right on the rare occasions that I’ve tried). Since I’m opening the pictures in GIMP anyway, I generally do a little cropping and… Continue reading On the Aesthetics of Photo Cropping
Category: Personal
028/366: Peek-a-Bench
The JCC day care is closed today and tomorrow for the start of Sukkot, so as a result, I spent most of the day home with The Pip (SteelyKid went off to school as usual). Which means I got a whole bunch of photos of him playing at home and at a couple of local… Continue reading 028/366: Peek-a-Bench
027/366: #SuperBloodMoon
Really, was there any question at all what the subject of today’s photo would be? I mean, I’m a geek, I have a fancy camera– of course I was taking pictures of the lunar eclipse. But more importantly, I was sharing it with SteelyKid: That’s SteelyKid looking through her telescope at the early stages of… Continue reading 027/366: #SuperBloodMoon
019/366: Lots of SteelyKids
Weekends around here tend to be ridiculously busy, so you get a cell-phone photo again. But with a twist– over in Twitter-land, Frank Noschese mentioned a smartphone app called Motion Shot that takes short video clips and processes them to provide multiple images of some moving object. This is, of course, basically irresistible for a… Continue reading 019/366: Lots of SteelyKids
017/366: Guessing Game
SteelyKid’s elementary school had their annual open house tonight, and they tried something different with it this year. Rather than having prepared presentations in the classrooms, they had the kids lead a “tour” for their parents– she got a map and a “bingo” card, and then led us to her classroom, the cafeteria, the library,… Continue reading 017/366: Guessing Game
015/366: Ascent
I don’t want to turn this into “Photo of the Kids of the Day,” but I spent most of today with The Pip, because his day care was closed for Rosh Hashanah. And while I took a bunch of artsy shots of trees and stuff, I really like the way this one came out: He’s… Continue reading 015/366: Ascent
013/366: Accessorize!
Elite Northeastern private college tuition and fees (1989-1993): ~$80,000 Gold class ring from elite Northeastern private college: ~$500 Colorful Rainbow Loom bracelet from your seven-year-old daughter: Priceless. SteelyKid made this bracelet the other day at her after-school day care, while demonstrating to her friends that she could knit the rubber bands together with her fingers.… Continue reading 013/366: Accessorize!
012/366: Rocket Dude!
SteelyKid spent a good chunk of the afternoon playing at a friend’s house, so most of the photographic activity of the day involved The Pip energetically playing with various toys. This included a good while spent in the back yard with a Stomp Rocket: In this shot, he’s leaped with great force onto the rubber… Continue reading 012/366: Rocket Dude!
011/366: Expensive Selfie
Another crazy-busy day, with a really exhausting pick-up basketball game at lunchtime, but I did have a little time to try out two features of the new camera: the “Live” shooting mode, and the display screen on the back that flips out. These combine to allow you to take a really expensive selfie, if you… Continue reading 011/366: Expensive Selfie
010/366: SparringKid
I said when I started this that there would inevitably be a few cell-phone snapshots, on days when I’m too busy to get fancy with the DSLR. This was one such, so here’s a quick shot of SteelyKid at tonight’s Elite Team taekwondo practice, talking to her coach. The Elite Team class is all sparring,… Continue reading 010/366: SparringKid