A few shots of Dad holding Sam for the first time.

If you want full-sized images for printing out, then you want to click here, here, and here.

Been taking lots of shots of the kids, but one finally came out nice!

(edit: Ah, I figured it out, I can’t let the blog create resized versions of my giant files. To get the original size file (for printing) click here! It will look horrible in your web browser)

Mom got me a new LED ring flash for my birthday. I’ve wanted one for a while, but they were always too expensive for a niche subject (they’re mostly only useful for macro shots). But with an LED ring flash, the flash can be cheap because it doesn’t need to be TTL or E-TTL. It is always on so the camera just uses that light as the ambient light calculation. Again, it works best when you’re doing a macro shot. As a test, here’s my mom’s eye:

As usual we went Trick or Treating in Ellicott City’s Main Street area. Just a few photos from that evening:

Once again an awesome costume from my mother-in-law. Enjoy the gallery!

We went apple-picking just about midway into October, but this year only the Stayman apples had ripened by that time.

They had this creepy-looking building near the apples, so I decided to take a photo. While I was processing it, I couldn’t decide which look I liked best, so here are my favorites:

A while back I wrote about geotagging my photos when I was using Lightroom. I wanted to demonstrate how much easier it is with Digikam as everything’s built in and it works nicely and quickly.

https://youtu.be/mVgLWcRqfL4

Here’s how it can look as you click on each photo: