Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 27th, 2007
As you can see, I’ve updated the look of the Blog.Â
This theme is customizable in that you can select one of three different color themes. I’ve been looking for a three-column theme for this Blog and have been running this one over at A Layman’s Thoughts for some time now. I like the relatively clean [...]
Posted in Woodworking on Oct 21st, 2007
Wood Magazine this month published a question from a reader asking which woods are food safe. Their reply was that tight-grained domestic hardwoods, especially maple, birch, and beech leave fewer hiding places for food-borne bacteria than open-grained wood. Yet they said parenthetically that Bamboo, which is a grass, was also food safe–though Bamboo [...]
Posted in Photography on Oct 17th, 2007
One of the things I like best about photography is selecting something small from a much larger environment or object. Fortunately, there are lenses for that!
When I first got my camera I had a wide angle lens and a medium zoom-telephoto lens. The wide angle is great for capturing a panoramic image of the world, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2007
I am currently traveling on business in Europe. Last week I was in Belgium, and this week finds me in Sweden. I didn’t get a chance to take many pictures at all in Belgium due to my schedule and the rainy weather, but I have been making photographs here in Sweden. I hope to have [...]
Posted in Woodworking on Oct 6th, 2007
I haven’t written about woodworking for a long time. There are several reasons for this. For one, I got very interested in photography in June of 2006, and that hobby has been top-of-mind and top-of-wallet ever since. Another reason is that although I have a huge, well outfitted, free-standing shop, it isn’t heated.Â
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That means that [...]
Posted in Photography on Oct 3rd, 2007
I have bird feeders on my deck and I love to photograph the various birds that visit. When I was new at bird photography, I relied exclusively on ambient light. This presented a number of problems, not least of which was that I frequently got blurry shots due to low shutter speed. Either the bird [...]
