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This was so much easier when it was just one baby! (4th Month Portrait)
I wanted to do this earlier – somewhere around 2 month portraits. I was re-energized to try the idea after seeing someone do a photo that made it look like their kid was bounding out of the crib with her stuffed animals. I did not take the Sam and Stella images from some other random…
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Baby Smiles
Some February photos of the twins smiling:
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Mid-Novvember Photojojo
It’s once again time for my latest Photojojo post. For those of you who haven’t been following my blog for a long time, Photojojo is a digital time capsule service. Every two weeks they send me an email that has my most interesting photos posted to flickr from one year ago. Once again a focus…
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5 Tips for Taking Photos of Toddlers
Every phase of life the children in your life go through presents different sets of challenges. For example, take a look at this photo of Scarlett’s first Easter: She couldn’t sit up and she didn’t have the slightest clue of what was happening. We could try to get her to look at her mom, but…
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Top 200 Photos: #82
Another Year of the Pig child in today’s Top 200 Photo photo #82 is: A great baby portrait of Lance, named after the bicyclist.
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Top 200 Photos: #173
What’s black and white and #173? Today’s Top 200 Photos entry. photo #173 is: For about a year, we were obsessed with Tai Shan, the baby panda at The National Zoo. We went at least once a month to go photograph him and watch him act all cute. This triptych is from his first birthday.…
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Photos with Most Comments on Flickr
Some of these are the same as the previous two days, unsurprisingly. But some are new to this list..
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NYRR: RBC Brooklyn Half Marathon 2022
Before Race Day I think I’ve become addicted to races. I really missed having races between April (Cherry Blossom) and the end of May (BK HM) although I did that on purpose to allow myself to rest and train. July, when I once again will be sans race, is probably going to be hard for…
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Review: Parable of the Talents
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler My rating: 4 of 5 stars Welcome back to the crapsack/grimdark world of America in the 2020s as created by Octavia Butler in the 1990s. It is sometimes eerily prophetic. More about that later. The addition of Lauren’s daughter’s (Larkin) annotations to her mother’s journals provides a…
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Review: Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 139
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 139 by Neil Clarke My rating: 4 of 5 stars A nice, solid collection this month. Here are my per-story thoughts: Carouseling: An extremely sad and touching story about a couple and an experiment at a CERN-like lab. Wonder if the story was written/conceived back when everyone was afraid the collider would…
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Review: All That Outer Space Allows
All That Outer Space Allows by Ian Sales My rating: 1 of 5 stars It’s very interesting to be reading this (well, listening as an audiobook) at the same time as The Calculating Stars as both of them tackle women’s issues, the Baby Boomer Era America, and space travel. But whereas I’m really enjoying The…
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Reviews: The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon – The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World; Food Processor Perfection: 75 Amazing Ways to Use the Most Powerful Tool in Your Kitchen; Planet Barbecue!: 309 Recipes, 60 Countries; Prepare to Meet Thy Doom: And More True Gaming Stories; Abaddon’s Gate; Damnation Alley ; The Improbable Rise of Singularity Girl; The Perfect Cookie: Your Ultimate Guide to Foolproof Cookies, Brownies, and Bars; Words of Radiance
The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon – The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World by Steven L. Kent My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a very comprehensive look at the history of video games going way, way back. I’m familiar with a lot…
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First Smoked BBQ Pulled Pork
Long-time readers of my blog will know that while I’ve been working at mastering my grills for a few years now, it was in 2016 that I decided I would take my BBQ to the next level. Back in June I smoked baby back ribs for the first time. Then I realized that I wanted…
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Purple Tub Portraits
It’s a time-honored tradition for us to photograph babies in the purple bucket. We did it for Nam, Lan, and Scarlett. Now it was time for the twins to do it. Scarlett wanted to do it again, so now we have this comparison. Baby Scarlett: And Four-Year-Old Scarlett: Lighting setup is the same as one…
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BBQ Ribs
Ever since I bought my house and got a BBQ/grill I’ve learned that most of what I thought of as BBQ growing up was actually grilling. The key difference is that you BBQ at a lower temperature (typically around 225 F) and that BBQ is cooked via indirect heat. Grilling is cooking directly over a…