Metal Medal on Metal

Flying Pig Medal

When you run the Flying Pig 1/2 Marathon you get a nice metal at the end.  This sucker is heavy and well made.  This is a nice reminder of the effort to get ready and do the run. The medal on metal was something I came up with when I was looking … [Read more...]

Building a DIY beauty dish

The beauty dish is a light modifier that provides sort of an intermediate result between a soft box and a bare bulb.  The beauty dish has been said to provide a light for beautiful people because it can show all of the imperfections in skin - … [Read more...]

More work with white backgrounds

I want to do white background portraits and found a excellent tutorial by Photographer Zack Arias HERE out of Atlanta, GA. Thanks for all the info Zack. This is my attempt to create a similar but smaller scale version of his setup. The setup … [Read more...]

The weekend in review – working at the lake.

This was a weekend for working at the lake.  It was deck building time.  James helped (okay designed, procured, and implemented) me to build a deck on the back of the lake house.  It has been a long time coming and we're not quite done … [Read more...]