Monthly Archives: December 2010

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2010 in Popular Pictures or The Internet has Odd Taste

No.1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 No. 7 No. 8 No. 9 No. 10 [click images to savor what the hive-mind was into this year] It is hard to put together a “best of” sort … Continue reading

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They All Asked For You

[click images for larger views] Oh, New Orleans. So easy to photograph, so hard to photograph well. A few members of my family and I took a day trip to New Orleans yesterday to eat and do a little shopping. … Continue reading

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A Very WASPy Christmas

[click image for larger view] One of the great things about regularly taking pictures of your family members is that they eventually forget that you are documenting everything. Or, maybe they just stop offering resistance. Either way, I love these … Continue reading

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Borrowed Children

[click images for dramatically cuter view] Anna needed to do a little Christmas shopping for Quinn so she dropped her off at my parents. For the next three hours she had no less that 8 adults hovering around her and … Continue reading

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Behold the Sons of Mary, Marching Towards the Yule

So, it’s Christmas time and my brothers and their wives/fiances have come into town. Anna, bless her, was willing to join the fray. We went to dinner, we drank egg nog with bourbon, we watched YouTube videos by the fire.

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Parish Brewery

[click image for larger view] “Brewers, bakers and potters all like to claim that their respective arts are the cornerstone of civilization. I will leave it to them to sort out who gets the credit, but there is no debating … Continue reading

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Geminids 2010

December 14th 12:33 AM Lat 32N;91.2W 26F December 14th 1:14 AM Lat 32N;91.2W 22F [click images for larger view] 16 seconds at ISO 2000 and f/3.6. Canon 5D MkII with a Zenitar 16mm f/2.8. Edited with Aperture 3 and Noise … Continue reading