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Family Life
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 13:16 |
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This photo of Ami was shot with my Nikon D70, I didn't like how it turned out in color, as the colors were all washed out, and the fact that the walls in this room are eggshell white, it threw off the auto white balance. So I modified the tone to this nice mellow sepia. I think that it works for this portrait. -Ezra
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Arts + Entertainment
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Sunday, 28 September 2008 20:27 |
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On a recent trip to Lewisburg PA, I stopped into a small art supplies store called 'Brush Strokes', and picked up a few items for my recent artistic interests. I bought a square sketch book, a set of watercolor pencils, and a really nice set of sketching colored Pencils. I love buying things like this, I like to look at the fresh, unused pencils, the crisp white paper with not a single spot on it, and to read the little slip of paper that is always inside the tin of pencils, and lern about the history of the manufacturer. The set of Watercolor pencils come in a nice little compact tin, that will go well in my bag beside my Moleskine Watercolor notebook, and my Winsor and Newton Cotman Watercolor set. I like to have the watercolor pencils in addition to having the standard watercolor paints becuase I can get really precise lines, and darker accents with them. The square sketchbook, and the regular Lyra pencils will probably not travel with me all the time, they will most likely sit on my desk and I will use them there. (They are however in my bag at the moment) -Ezra  
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Family Life
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:45 |
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Yes, at the tender age of 6 1/2 months, Ami and I have decided to allow Scarlette to drive. You can see her grin here as she takes the wheel, and puts her foot on the accelerator. We warned her about keeping under the speed-limit, and to watch for pedestrians. -Ezra
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Everything
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Friday, 19 September 2008 14:07 |
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Iomega just announced their new slim 320gb drive - The eGo Helium, and wow! Is it ever slick and screams 'BUY ME FOR THE MACBOOK AIR!!' I love the design, slim, slick and no frills, if this is the future of design, I think that we are headed in the right direction. Too much has been made of function over form, I think that function and form should go hand-in-hand. I think I will be picking up one of these when I buy my next notebook. It will really look good next to my Macbook Air, or Next gen Macbook Pro. -Ezra
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Daily Life
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Thursday, 18 September 2008 14:43 |
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I have re-organized my workspace a little bit, I hate a cluttered desk, and so I have moved allot of this stuff away, and reduced it to essentials. On the bottom shelf, you can see my daytimer desk size folder. I had to cut it from my daily bag becuase it was getting too heavy, I love that folder, but I really can't justify carrying it allong with me everyday. I have been instead carrying my d70 with me, I like to have access to it all the time, but it would be nice to have a 50mm prime on it, as well, but since I do use the zoom, I have been carrying that instead. -Ezra
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Arts + Entertainment
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Tuesday, 09 September 2008 13:40 |
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I have been playing around with my new Watercolor set; 'The Winsor And Newton Cotman Compact Set' that I bought from Cheap-Joes Art Supplies. (Amazon had it for $28+6.99s&h, but Cheap-Joes had it for $21.26 with free shipping) so that was a no-brainer. It has a really cool design, in that there are two pallets, and a water bowl, but it all folds up smaller than a paperback. There are 14 Half-Pans of colors, and a small (fake) Sable brush. I bought this so that I could have something small enough to throw in my bag, and forget it until I needed it. The Cotman series of paints are somewhat lower quality than the top of the line Winsor And Newton, but for me they will work out quite well, I am not the pro that would need to have the top of the line paints.
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