Tag: Photography

Work Comments & More Photos

jeff

I’m in College Station, Texas for the next two weeks running my experiments for my dissertation.  I met with everyone at Disaster City today and with Robin’s new students and got most everything worked out as far as basic logistics.  Tomorrow I’ll be setting up SARGE in the computer lab and thoroughly testing the entire system I’ve built for data collection with some real users.  While I was wandering around Texas A&M campus today I found some nice flowers (1) and then after it got dark I attempted some astrophotography (2) with the T1i.  And of course a post wouldn’t be complete without an Alex photo (3).  This one is from the morning I left, he had a fun breakfast.

Photography and my Bulldog Cookie

jeff

So I got a new Canon T1i today. I love it. I really missed the SLR form factor since I got rid of my Minolta D7 and A1. They were good, but awfully noisy at night (and I wanted to do night/astrophotography). At that time my little Canon P&S produced pictures as good as the A1 (and I sold the D7 to get the A1) so I ditched the A1 on eBay. After 2 years I have come to realize just how the P&S for factor limits some types of picture taking. Sooo….. after 3+ years of looking into a real DSLR, I took the plunge. I was just doing some test shots around the house with Alex and Cookie wanted to butt in. I managed to get her looking completely ridiculous and like Cujo in the same sequence. Here is the combined shot for your viewing pleasure.
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Alex Loves Swimming

jeff

We picked up a floating baby-walker-like toy for Alex this weekend and took him in the pool.  He loves the water.  He quickly figured out how to scoot around the hot tub in this water-walker.  If was fun, he enjoyed playing in it for about an hour before we decided to get out and take him in the pool, which was about 15 degrees cooler.  He wasn’t so sure about the temperature of the pool.alexinpool 🙂