things not blogged

all kinds of things going on and not blogged about...

1. artomatic opens on friday (probably today since i'm writing this at 11pm). the bakers dozen portraits will be there on the 4th floor, east side of the building somewhere. if you're there, look for them. if you're there for opening night then look for me (or give me a call), we'll be there for a while.

2. bakers dozen portraits are also in issue two of xxcmag.com

3. i'm riding the hoo-ha next weekend for team imba-more. we're raising money for IMBA, MORE, and the fountainhead project. if we average $1000 in donations per teammember we get $1000 each in matching from SRAM, so please donate here to me or one of the other team imba-more members. donations are split 50/50 between IMBA and MORE, but MORE gets 100% of the matching funds.

4. the va imba festival @ stokesville was a blast this past weekend. since we were traveling with sam, we only went down for one night. got two good rides in, braley pond with punga, and lookout by myself, though the lookout ride ended with a flat and a snapped derailleur hanger that lead to the lucky discovery of the stumpjumper's magic gear. more importantly, sam had a great time, had lots of fun with ryder and andrew, and did great camping.

5. in aid of #3 (above) we're hosting a ride and barbeque this saturday as a fundraiser. current plans are for a ride at rosaryville (fast loop at 7:30, slower lap at 8:30) followed by grilling at bike doctor waldorf at 11:30. rain plans to be announced, but we won't ride dirt this saturday if conditions are bad.

6. next spokes column will be out in the coming week.

7. heather's lavender wit tastes good, but the golden ale is kicked already. how did we get through that so quickly?

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this is one of the coolest things i've seen in a very long time...

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

spokes magazine...

the first installment of my run as the "singletrack" columnist in spokes magazine will be hitting the racks in bike shops everywhere soon. if you want a sneak preview, you can pull down a copy online at http://www.spokesmagazine.com/ (pull down the may 2009 issue).

options... white balance

pardon my obsessiveness for a minute. non-photo geeks might want to tune out.

on the left is the original in-camera auto white balance. in the middle it's set in lightroom off the blacks in the jersey. on the right it's set off the whites in the jersey. anyone care to offer an opinion of which they prefer?

you can click through to see them bigger on flickr.

bakers dozen project - continued

a couple new shots, a couple of re-edits...

dave

kent

The Bakers Dozen "Project"

kent

Thanks to all who played along with the Baker's Dozen project... The results are up on flickr now. Edits are still preliminary and some of the post processing has gone a bit too far, so expect to see some changes.

mike

The results aren't quite what i'd expected -- thematically or visually -- but i'm still really happy with them...

scott

I'd been seeing the project in my head in black & white, but once i started shooting i knew it was going to end up in color.

judd

The lighting needs a little work. Most of it was complete dumb luck combined with nikon's CLS mad science. basic formula: -2 stops EV comp + ( +1 stop flash comp + ( 1.7 stops A-channel [main, normally camera right] or 1-stop B-channel [fill/rim, camera left] ). the later night shots got some CTO gels...

marc

There was more than a little lightroom work on them to dial up the mood.

jason

spring sunday

first weekend of spring, first mountain bike ride of the year... i got a good lap in at rosaryville on sunday. it might not sound like much, but between sam, the weather, the house, and various weekends away it was the first time i'd been out on my mountain bike since sam was 3 weeks old.

st. michaels, md

my expectations were low, but i was happily surprised with how my body felt. the climbs hurt a little more than they used to, and i'm sure i was a good bit slower, but i didn't feel as bad as i'd expected to after the hiatus i've had. at least i'd been out on my road bike a couple of times to get my legs back under me.

with grandpa

i'd hoped to grab a couple of pictures of the ride, but when i pulled the little camera out of my bag i found it had a dead battery. oh well, next time i guess.

after the ride we drove out to the eastern shore for a lazy afternoon. a little lunch, a stroll around st. michaels, and some fun with sam. perfect.

tile removal...

dad came over this weekend and helped me make a big hole in the kitchen floor.

turned out to be a bit of a messy job --why builders thought 6" of concrete was the best way to lay a tile floor in the 40's is beyond me -- but we've now got a temporary plywood floor in the footprint of old bathroom that's being added to the kitchen. it'll stay until we can get someone out to look at what will need to be done to the joists -- they were "altered" somewhat in the tile laying -- to lay a proper subfloor.

we also removed the old bathroom door frame and framed in the hole so that we can drywall up the opening, so, all-in-all it was a productive weekend.

snow in the discovery sensory garden...

philly

smythe building, arch street

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snotcycle

spent part of the day saturday out at snotcycle in leesburg making some photos...

catching up..

what have we been up to?

swapping soup

looking at the snow


celebrating change


volunteering