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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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]