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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.

Quick Review: ZooGue Smart Case

lew — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:00:39 +0000

After several failures in my hunt to find a decent, cheap case for the iPad, I believe we finally have a winner! The ZooGue Smart Case was on sale recently at buy.com, and the features seemed to align with what I was looking for: multiple horizontal viewing angles, comfortable to use in landscape (which is how I prefer to read), clean look, easy in and out, and finally, durable (read: two year old proof). The case doesn’t have the most refined of looks to it because the mechanism for holding it up at any angle you’d like is Velcro, but it’s all black, so it’s not too obnoxious. The case has a strap for use holding the iPad on the back of headrest and despite never having used it for that I both like having the option, and have found that it’s great for holding a small notepad (explanatory picture in the gallery). The case allows for access to all the ports and switches on the iPad, but if you find you need to, there’s an easy to release strap and button on one side. The stitching on the case is holding up well after a few weeks of use and although over a long period of time that the Velcro will likely start to show some signs of wear, I still think it s a good buy and would recommend this case.

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: Acase Leather Flip Book Jacket/folio

lew — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:00:33 +0000

Still in the hunt for a decent cheap iPad case, I decided to give a folio-style case a chance, and purchased the AcaseLeather Flip Book Jacket/folio. My biggest reason for trying a case this style is because whenever you’re sitting somewhere you have to put the iPad down on a flat surface, you need to find something to prop up one side. So, I was in the hunt for a decent looking case that had a variety of ways to prop it up, without sacrificing the ability to use it flat. I chose the a case because it was low priced, but had a nice black leather look to it (it’s not real leather, though, despite the name). Functionally, I’ve enjoyed the case, One of the ways you can flip the end around makes a great position for typing, it’s easy to just flip the cover behind and use the iPad vertically (that’s how I’ve found I prefer to use the device as an e-reader) and there are multiple angles you can stand the iPad up when you’re demonstrating or watching something on it. Additionally, if you need to pull the iPad out, the system for holding it in place (elastic bands on the side and two corners) makes it easy to pop it in and out. Having read all that, you’d probably think I’d recommend the case, and I would with one major caveat: it is not kid-proof. Unfortunately, this is also a requirement for me and sadly, I left the iPad with my 2 year old for a few minutes, looked over, and in an attempt to remove the iPad from the case, she pulled one side of the side strap out, and it’s now broken. It seems to me that you shouldn’t have been able to do that so easily, so my guess it that the craftsmanship of the straps is shoddy (the other side is about 1/2 way off as well), and sadly, Ill be looking for yet another case.