Category: Travels
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Cruzing in Santa Cruz
After Jules and I landed in California (we were racing each other to SFO), we picked up our rental car and headed to the hotel to drop stuff off.
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You are going to put *that* in my latte?!
Before Christmas this year I won (via Twitter) a gift card to a place called Pound Coffee. Pound Coffee is a local shop close to the Eastern Market Metro stop that offers some good food and fantastic coffee drinks. Since the holidays were a bit crazy for Jules and I, we waited until after the…
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Onto Normandy!
(to see the beginning of this story, click here) So after we spent the afternoon on a whirlwind tour of Paris, we finally made it back to the hotel around 1 AM local time. I was drained – up until this point, I had slept very little and all I wanted to do was lay…
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Forced Nudity
A couple of weeks ago I had to send my trusty Canon T2i DSLR in for servicing. I was beginning to have a lot of issues with my autofocus, especially with my 60mm Macro lens (which also went back). So, while my camera gets service and back to me in time for the holiday (I…
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Tone Deaf Photography (HDR Part II)
As I wandered through France, one of my goals for advancing my photography skills was to take a ton of HDR photos. I managed to end up taking quite a bit, and as I slowly go through the hundreds of photos from the trip, a few began to stand out. I tried to go for…
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BlackRapid RS Sport Review!
A couple of weeks ago I received an RS Sport strap from BlackRapid for our upcoming Fall Photowalk. I thought it was the responsible thing to do (wink wink) to test it myself beforehand in Europe before we had the photowalk. The photowalk cofounder, Zach, is a huge fan of their straps and after testing…
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This is a test…this is only a test (HDR)
So you may have heard I took a trip over to Europe recently. It’s true- I went to France, Luxembourg, and the Czech Republic. I brought my camera along for the ride with a lens I rented from Borrowlenses.com. While it will take weeks for me to sort through the 50+ GBs of photos/videos I…
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Playing around with HDR, part I
I’ll admit it- I haven’t posted in over a week (two weeks to be exact). While this is for a myriad of reasons which some I can disclose and some I cannot, rest assured I haven’t been sitting still. One great example of this was 2 weekends ago when my buddy Ryan hired me to…
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Hanging in Annapolis
Last weekend Jules and I headed down to Historic Annapolis for a change of scenery. Even know Annapolis is less than an hour away from our house in Baltimore, we rarely visit. We decided to spend an afternoon wandering around and taking pictures. Here is a sample of the day-for the rest check out my Flickr…
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Freeze Framed
One of the most relaxing places I know is my parent’s lakehouse on Lake Anna in Mineral, Virginia. The property was owned by my family for the better half of a decade before a custom designed house was built on part of the grounds. By accident or fate, it is truly a dog’s paradise- which…
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Air Show at Andrews AFB!
A couple weekends ago, the Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland hosted their annual Joint Service Open House aka the Air Show. Jules and I decided to attend the Air Show on Sunday afternoon. The show, open to the public for free on Saturday May 21th and Sunday May 22nd 2011, lets our Armed Services…
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Cleveland Botanical Garden
For Memorial Day this year, Jules and I headed to Solon, Ohio to see her family. Solon, which is roughly 30 minutes from downtown Cleveland, is a spread out “town” covering a few miles. It’s a cool place to visit and we had a blast hanging out with her family. One day during our visit…
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Visit to Athens, Ohio
One week ago, I took a trip with Jules to visit her sister in Athens, Ohio. While Jules’ family is from Cleveland, both her and her parents visited Dayna at Ohio University. Since Dayna had exams during this time, we could only visit with her once to tour the campus. Jules and I stayed with…
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