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Super Rat Machine Works Design
One of the best things about working in the creative industry is the luxury of being surrounded by amazingly passionate people. One of those people is Phil Wasson. I’ve known Phil for more than a decade now and his craftsmanship with all things metal is next to none. Over the years, I’ve [...]
Do It Yourself Lightbox
Professional product photography is one of the most overlooked aspects of running a successful online business. Bad photography can loose you sales. Good, clean product photography can increase sales. Read more for a professional product photography solution on a very tight budget.
High speed mode
I once thought that high speed mode was simply just a camera function for increasing frames per second. I was wrong. It is also a lifestyle, to which I recently subscribed, albeit unconsciously.
During the month of December I…
Traveled to Atlanta for three days for a photo shoot
Traveled to Minneapolis for Christmas
Worked well over [...]
Introducing Graph Paper Press
“Over 1,500 hits in one day?” That was the question I asked myself the day after that I released Visualization, a premium magazine-style theme for Wordpress, a popular online publishing system. Since then, I’ve released Gridline Magazine, Gridline News, and Gridline Lite to help feed the beast.
But, I had to ask myself, do [...]
Gridline Magazine Theme for Wordpress
I’m on a bit of a web design and development kick lately. Earlier this week, I released the Visualization Theme for Wordpress. Today, I’m releasing Gridline Magazine, a modular, minimalist, magazine-style theme for Wordpress that supports a widgetized bottombar and sidebar. Design features include:
All original PSD files, making all graphics easily [...]
Visualization Wordpress Magazine Theme
Update
This theme and many other themes are now available at www.graphpaperpress.com
If you visit my site regularly or irregularly, you have undoubtedly noticed constant design changes, tweeks and dramatic overhauls. Chalk this one up to my obsessive compulsive nature and insatiable taste for modern, clean, minimalist aesthetics. So, after more than two years of [...]
Penn Valley Skatepark
A few sequences of Jeff Sadler at the Penn Valley Skatepark in Kansas City, MO on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007.
From Work to Home to Trails in 15 Minutes
The best thing about Lawrence is that most of my favorite places are within very close proximity to each another.
Shawnee Mission Skatepark session
I live less than 30 minutes from an amazing skatepark in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. I spend almost every Sunday carving the bowls and snapping pics.
Duluth Minnesota
If you ever have an opportunity to visit Duluth, Minnesota, do it. It’s quite an amazing little city on Lake Superior.
myPhone
With all this blogging going on about the iPhone, I figured that it was time to pay homage to the iPhone’s more capable older sibling: the Nokia 312ob RH-50. The more than 300,000 blogs and millions of comments on blogs about the iPhone makes me wonder if we all have too much time [...]
Online Convergence Award
I’m excited to announce that the mining series that I helped direct, photograph, videotape and multimedia-ize won first place for online convergence in the Associate Press Managing Editors contest for newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. It was a huge group effort, with Mike Belt reporting for LJWorld.com, Brian Powell and Greg Hurd producing [...]
Winnie
Say hello to Winnie. She’s my new kitten. Winnie is a small, salt and pepper colored cat with a white front right paw and a white back left paw. Pretty cute if you ask me. She likes the taste of people food, and strangely enough, my fingers. Meow!
Time Lapse Experiment
If you live in the midwest like I do, you likely experienced 40 to 50 mph winds today. I headed out the Haskell-Baker Wetlands south of Lawrence, Kansas to capture the gusty afternoon sky. The result is 30 minutes of real time compressed into a 90 second time-lapse containing 900 photos.
Watch the time-lapse [...]
Three places at once
I photograph Kansas University basketball games for ljworld.com and kusports.com. For Saturday’s game against Iowa State, I used two remotes mounted on the goal. I mounted a Nikon D200 vertically with a 17-35mm lens high on the goalpost, a Nikon D1H with a 10.5mm 180-degree fisheye lens at floor level underneath the goalpost, [...]
New look for ‘07
I’ve received a few inquiries as to how I’ve built this site. Here is how: I use Wordpress to build and manage my site, a modified version of Unsleepable to theme my site, Monoslideshow for my Photo and Multimedia pages, and the Kimili Flash Embed plugin, which allows me to embed Flash content on [...]
Halloween portraits
I shot a series of portraits on Halloween using both ambient and studio lights. The top photo was lit with one 800 watt head, diffused by a large Chimera softbox at camera left. The bottom photo was lit by a red neon light mounted to the ceiling of a shed.
Halloween 2006
Halloween 2006 went down with its usual chaotic antics. Like every year, I waited too long to find a costume, than at the last minute, decided dressing up wasn’t worth the hassle. I brought my camera, lights and softbox and documented some of the costumes in an abandonded house on my friend’s property. There [...]
Powered by…..
For a photographer with a limited budget and limited web skills, building/finding the right photo gallery tool to run a website can be painful. I have spent the better part of two years looking for the perfect photo management web gallery, blogging application and content management system to run my website. Although my [...]
Social bookmarking
Man am I glad that I finally took the time to check this out. A while back, I kept running into this del.icio.us thing. I quickly wrote it off as some kind of myspace-esque web venture out to waste my time and turn my clicks into advertising dollars. Boy was I wrong.
Briefly, [...]
Facelift
Change is inevitable. Check back soon for site updates.
Thad