Day at the Smithsonian
Visited the Natural History and Air & Space museums today to take some photos and to see the Nature's Best Photography exhibition. If you're able to get to the museum before May 2 definitely check these pictures out. They were amazing. The colors were so rich, the shots really drew you in and I was...
Inspiration
Ever have those days where you can't seem to get motivated to do anything? You know you have work to do but instead you're just counting down the hours until it's quitting time and you can go veg on the couch all night. Today is one of those days. It's Friday at 5pm and I've...
HDR Daisy
I am becoming a tad bit obsessed lately playing with HDR and various post-processing techniques. But up until now I had only played with it on landscapes so I wanted to try it with a plant. This is one I did of a daisy in the bouquet of flowers I recently bought. First time using...
Trey Ratcliff Presentation at Google
I'm a huge fan of Trey Ratcliff and his site Stuck in Customs. I not only enjoy his absolutely beautiful images, but how he helps bring photographers together. Recently he gave a talk at Google's author's series on his new book, A World in HDR which you can watch below. I highly recommend it if...
Happy (Lunar) New Year
Yesterday Marc Benton hosted the first photowalk in a long time (since September I think) in DC. First we hit up the National Archives who on the 24th is banning all photography in the building. Couldn't get very many shots in there at all due to the no flash, no tripod rule but always fun...
The Happiness Project
Since I returned from NYC in 2008 I've always been on the look out for things, routines, hobbies, etc to help me keep a good work/life balance. Don't want to wake up some day and realize all I'd done was politics my whole life. So, a few weeks ago I came across a new book...
Curling update …
Sadly both the men and women US Curling teams lost yesterday in the first day of Curling at the Vancouver Olympics. Still many rounds to go yet in the round robin and I'm of course having fun watching - and explaining it to anyone who doesn't understand it all. Also, FamousDC picked up my senior...
SWEEP, SWEEP, HARD
Ok that title may not make sense to most of you, but watch a little bit of curling here during the Olympics and you'll get it. I love Curling. I played it growing up at the Green Bay Curling Club and really enjoy getting to watch it every four years during the Winter Olympics. Random...
Happy President’s Day
In honor of today's President's day I went through the Katie archives and found a picture I took a long time ago - around age 13 - during the first of many family camping trips we used to take every summer. This is of Mount Rushmore. It's a scan so quality isn't the best, but...
Jefferson Memorial
After all of this snow DC got I really wanted to get down to the Tidal Basin to take some photos of the Jefferson Memorial. The snow was pretty deep in places - at least up to my knees - but others had been there before me and cleared a little bit of a path....
It’s that time again…
Every four years during the Winter Olympics people become obsessed with Curling again. I was a curler when I was in high school (I'll dig up some pictures on that later) but in preparation for tonight's opening ceremonies in Vancouver I give you Stephen Colbert as he tries curling. PS: I really want a remote...