Stuology

I haven’t really been cooking anything spectacular. I’m still just cooking with mostly what I have in my kitchen. I suppose it is my food spring cleaning. I’m just trying to reduce what I have on hand. Jay turned three last Sunday. Really! Three! We went to brunch at Maceli’s. Ada and I went shopping [...]

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Jay’s Christmas session — Yeah, I saturated his blue eyes. I love them. This is a butterfly lighting set-up with a 5-in-1 and AB800 on I totally forget the power level. I’m going to start marking this stuff down now that I have a desktop in the studio now.

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Remember that Psghettiface face contest that someone on Flickr recruited me to submit a photo I took of Jay? Yeah, I didn’t either. I completely forgot. I won second place and some free sauce and pasta. Cool.

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Tomorrow is my last day of work at the place I’ve been at for a little over 8 years. It is going to be odd for me for awhile. Unlike my other days off, I can’t log in even if I want to. I can’t habitually check my work e-mail, but that is one of [...]

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I was sitting on the floor in our bedroom, and pulled out my camera to get a framed shot in the door light. I gave him my lens cover to get him to hold still.

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During the Wisler Stomach Flu Epidemic of 2009, 3:00am became known as “The Puking Hour.” It is now also known as “The Beating Hour” — the time when Jay wakes up and comes into our room with the express purpose of hitting me in the head. I pulled him into bed last night after my [...]

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My morning started off by me waking up saying, “Did I just hear the door open?” I looked out the window to see Ada running around in the back yard wearing just panties and sandals. She really does like playing outside. I brought her back in and we got ready to head to the Farmer’s [...]

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I got our taxes filed tonight, so that is one less thing I need to do this weekend. Other things include working, Jay’s haircut appointment, cleaning the bathrooms, picking up the playroom since Jay destroyed it this week, and maybe catching up on some sleep. I want to play with my Alien Bees. And I [...]

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My first DIY softbox. I could only use a 150Watt bulb with the light I used, so I still had to shoot low light. I had him propped on the sofa with the light balanced on the arm. No fill.

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