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Red Wine and a Fire

lew — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:30:44 +0000

It was Saturday night, the kids were both asleep, and it was cold enough to warrant burning up the rest of our firewood. I thought that warranted a picture.

Ice Storm

lew — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:35:48 +0000

A few shots from the ice storm. It’s a shame the sun didn’t break through the clouds, it would have been pretty spectacular.

Winter Sunrise

lew — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:08:57 +0000

Fall Shots

lew — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:53:37 +0000

Just a few shots from the fall to document the turning of the season.

Hurrican’t Earl – Some Pics

lew — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:45:36 +0000

To quote my cousin Ryan, Earl was a “hurrican’t”, and we got nothing but a light breeze and a few drops of rain in Cape May. However, he did provide for some cool-ish skies the nights before and after. The colors on the pre-Earl pictures were the wildest. Here’s a few, all from during or right after sunset. (Because of it’s position on the tip of the Dirty Jerz, you can watch the sunset over the water here.) I’m too lazy to Photoshop, so these are right out of the camera, reduced slightly for the web.

Drizzly Sunset – Take 2

lew — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:03:37 +0000

I posted a few of these to Tumblr to try it out, but it seems like scale them down considerably. Here’s the best one of the bunch (I think), slightly cropped:

You can view the others here if you missed the Twitter link.

D5000

lew — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:20:29 +0000

Some fun with the new camera! Although I think there’s a lot to learn about it, the D5000 takes pretty nice photos right out of the box. Here’s a few shots as I wondered around the house/yard shooting whatever happened to be in front of me.

Ben on the Bench

lew — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:36:40 +0000

Ben on the Bench

Although Ben is probably photographed more times a day then most of us are in an entire year, very few people can get him from this angle. (Taken from Sanjay’s office with his D70, I definitely need a DSLR now!)

Quick Review: CIMO Soft Gel TPU Skin Case

lew — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:28:56 +0000

After seeing something online that suggested that the iPad doesn’t respond all that well to drops, and then watching my 2-year old carry it around with reckless abandon, I thought it might be worth picking up a case for it. I just wanted something inexpensive, so I quickly ordered the CIMO Soft Gel case in grey. (See it here). For $15, I guess you get what you pay for. It’s a little tough to get on and off, which wouldn’t be a big deal, except that none of the holes in the case are big enough to fit the plugs that they’re supposed to take, so you have to peel the bottom off to plug in the sync cable, or take the corner off to plug in headphones. Needless to say, although it’s accomplishing the goal of preventing catastrophic failure on drop, I certainly wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

The Train Snorer

lew — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:20:04 +0000

Everyone once in a while I end up right in front of Snory McSnores on the train. I’m amazed not only at the volume of the snoring, but also at both the speed at which he falls asleep, and his ability to maintain it for pretty much the whole hour ride. Here’s a little taste. Bear in mind this was recorded on my iPhone, which was in my lap, because it would have been a little weird to hold it right up to him.

Update: It seems as though I messed up the edit with the iPhone’s voice memo program, I meant to take a 10 second clip out of the middle, not the beginning. There’s still one or two good ones at the end though.