Spin Ink

Over the last 6 years or so, I have taken 10’s of thousands of pictures. I have photographed a wide variety of things; portraits, landscapes, studio, macro, panoramas, the living, and the dead. I have taken my camera from sea-level to ~6,000ft. In each image, a moment is captured and frozen in time. Some were in incredibly sharp focus, while others were abstract or over exposed. I am not a professional photographer, but I play one on the Internet. I have had zero training, and my concepts of lighting, composition, and technique are my own. I know what I like, and I do my best to capture it with each image I take.

When someone asks me, “Of all the pictures you have taken, which one is your favorite?”, I have no trouble telling them exactly which one is my favorite. Without a doubt, it is this image. I’m sure many of you are thinking, ‘What? that one? Huh?”. Granted, its technical merit is poor at best. The image isn’t properly framed, It looks like I may have moved while the shutter was open, and the depth of field is all wrong. All of that aside, It is the best photograph I have ever taken, as far as I am concerned.

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The eZine, PureMusic, has a great interview with Leonard Podolak of the Duhks in this months issue. They found the pictures that I took of the Duhks durring last year’s Merlefest and asked if they might use them. Ofcourse, I was more than happy for them to use my images. It was really nice to see my images being used to illustrate an interview with Leonard.

Perhaps the Duhks themselves will check out the interview and find their way to my website. I actually got to talk to Jesse and Tania at last years Merlefest, after their last performance. They were both really sweet and unassuming. I gave them my website address incase they wanted to check out the shots I got of them. I really look forward to seeing them at this years Merlefest, and hope to get a chance to talk them again.

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So it is February 5th AGAIN and I am now 25 years old. Wow, a quarter century. I gotta say, after 21, birthdays are not nearly as exciting. I think I might just stay 25 for a few years. If no one does the math next year, I should be in the clear.

I’d like to point out that I am still a student and every little bit helps. So if anyone wants to make my day, please use my donate link to send me a few birthday bucks or happy birthday wishes. That monsterous student loan I have isn’t going to payoff itself.

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I hope everyone has a safe holiday season. I’m home with the family now, visiting and catching up. Mom got me a Hauppauge PVR-150 this year and I cannot wait to get home and setup my MythTV box. I spent a good 12 hours figuring out how to compile MythTV on an AMD64 box and I hope I will be able to just drop the card in my machine, go through a quick setup, and be done with it. I will be detailing this process in a later post.

I also received several tasty coffees, including Southern Comfort and Jack Daniels blends, which I am anxious to try. In addtion, mom gave me a calendar with funny/strange websites, some chocolate covered cherries/strawberries and some great toys/treats for my cat, Wilson. The rest of my family gave me clothes and made a sizeable donation to the ‘Support a Starving College Student’ fund.

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Welcome to the age of the Internet gangster. Gone are the days when young computer nerds sat alone in their rooms figuring out how to break in to their schools’ computer systems to change grades. It is more like the Sopranos, with bosses and kingpins running the show. Identity theft via phishing and key loggers have seen a massive surge of popularity in the past year. We must be more careful than ever about where we use the internet and what we send over it.

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I recently saw a post on Digg.com about the ‘Great Images in NASA‘ website. Now I have been linked to this site before, but I never stayed for long. This time I felt inspired, so I thought I would browse through all of the pictures and see what I could find. There are thousands of images! It took several hours to go through them all, but I made it through them and I have downloaded my favoites and I then posted them to my gallery.

Many were black and white, some even featured the old-school ‘Red Baron’ style planes. While I do not really keep up with NASA, I really enjoy their images, I find them inspiring and very interesting. NASA makes these images availabe in very high resolution on their GRIN(Great Images in NASA) site.

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It is that time of year again, at this moment, the festival is in full swing and I am the first person to have any pictures from this years event on the internet. Im just that fast. Please go check them out on my Merlefest Photo Gallery.

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Two of my dearest friends got married today. The wedding was held at the Broyhill. It was a beautiful ceremony, and i wish them them both the best in this new chapter of their lives.

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