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Selling the house for a Canon 5D Mark II
I try my best to not geek out over new cameras when they are released. Honest, I do! Unfortunately, I just can’t shut up about the Canon 5D Mark II. In case you haven’t heard, Canon announced the new camera last week, and photo geeks are bouncing off the walls trying to get all the [...]
Panorama of the News Center
I am lucky to work for a company that understands how environment can influence the quality of work produced inside. The “News Center” is a multimedia haven where journalists, including traditionally trained print, online and broadcast journalists, sit side-by-side and work in collaboration. The building is actually an old Post Office. Take a peek if you want.
Telly Awards
In a sign of the changing times, a photographer shares in winning television awards…..Go figure.
I shared in two Telly Awards for photographs and video produced for Free State Studios, a division of The World Company, which also owns the Lawrence Journal-World and Sunflower Broadband. The awards program, now in its 29th year, honors video [...]
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.
North Park BMX Jam
Jesse McCollum, Ivy Melvin, Justin Mann and friends organized one hell of a BMX contest at the Pleasant Valley Skatepark in North Kansas City last night. Hundreds of kids from around the midwest met up for an evening winning some loot thanks to Red Bull.
My Three Favorite Online Magazines
Launched in February 2007, Monocle is a global briefing covering international affairs, business, culture and design. Headquartered in London with bureaux in Tokyo, Sydney, Zürich and New York, Monocle appears 10 times a year in print and is updated constantly at monocle.com.
High Def Web Visuals Coming Soon
In August, Adobe released a beta version of its new flash player. The player will now support Quicktime H.264 compression.
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 [...]
Storytelling Using Google Maps
One of the coolest new features on Google Maps is the ability to create “My Maps.” I geo-tagged photos and 360-degree panoramas to a Google Map from a project that explores the long-term health, environmental and economic-related effects that mining has had on parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. Click the image above [...]
Rattlesnake Roundup Resurrection
I’m resurrecting this audio slideshow from a few years ago because, well, it’s rattlesnake roundup season. I photographed and reported this story for the Lawrence Journal-World after thumbing through an events calendar for Kansas. Rattlesnake roundups are under increasing scrutiny by wildlife groups and animal rights activists as studies have found the species [...]
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!
Kansas Wind Energy
Last week I spent a few days traveling around Kansas shooting video and photos for this story for the Lawrence Journal-World about wind energy. When I arrived back in Lawrence, I had put 1,000 miles on my VW Rabbit, clicked more than 1,200 accuations on my Nikon D200, and logged about 5 hours of HD [...]
Wakarusa Fest Photos
Just to set the record straight, I’m generally turned off by jam bands, dead heads, and patchouli oil. For the fourth consecutive year, thousands of tye-dye wearing music lovers set up camp at the Clinton Lake State Park for the Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival. The four-day festival has basically become what Woodstock [...]
Shawnee Mission Skatepark
I think that I’ve shot this same photo of Phil Wasson at least 10 times. And every time, I still love it as much as the first. Anyway, for those that don’t know, this is Phil airing the bowl at the Shawnee Mission Skatepark. It’s a fun place with lots of fast [...]