iPhoto bookmaking review

On Friday, I finally gave my mother her Chanukah present—a 20-page book of photos I took on our cruise and bus tour of Alaska in 2009.  She had printed off all of my blog posts about Alaska as a keepsake, and this seemed like a far better answer. It only took me about 2.5 weeks to [...]

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Backlog backlog backlog

So many photos, so little processing time. Photos of . . .   Ahhhhh!

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At home in Glendale

Monday morning we took a walk around Glendale, while Margaret took a timed test online. It was prettier than I captured in my iPhone photos, with a lemon tree and a palm tree on every block and all sorts of plants and flowers that I couldn’t identify in front yards. If a walk around the [...]

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Los Angeles overview

Saturday night, rho, jlodder and I returned from a week-long visit to Mark, Margaret and Sarah’s home, complete with excursions across L.A. County. I knew we had arrived on a different planet as soon as we completed our short walk through the L.A. airport and stepped into the warm, caressing, February L.A. breeze. Entering the [...]

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Looking back at Ophelia

This week, everyone in Chicago is re-posting photos they took of the blizzard of 2011. Instead, I would like to take you on a little trip through the looking-glass to reconsider my portrait photography homework from the week after the blizzard. You may recall that this summer, I took a Photoshop class.  While doing so, I [...]

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