Much of my December was spent designing a large project that was in the works for some time. The CCO has a group of staff called Experiential Designs (XD) who use experiences like backpacking, rock climbing, service trips, traveling abroad, etc. as a tool to teach leadership and develop college students. I can say from [...]

For a while I’ve been following a Swedish photographer who refers to himself as Niopixlar. There is something very analog about a lot of his photos. They really have a soft film-like feel to them, and he uses a lot of earthy greens, browns, oranges and yellows to give a really vivid feeling of the texure [...]

This T2i camera really keeps me busy. While it takes great shots, it also has really impressive fully manual 1080p video. So while taking shots on vacation, I was also madly taking lots and lots of video. While I love this feature on the T2i, the only thing I sometimes find troubling for my own [...]

The mountains always seem to hit my reset button- I’m able to let go of so much of what consumes me during normal life. Come mid-summer, I’m always bouncing off the walls ready to travel and experience new places, scenes, food, hikes, people, etc. This summer marked the first extended trip with Ian, and he was [...]

Stumbled upon this today and was really blown away by what this guy did with a T2i. From the description and comments, it looks like he shot at 60 frames per second on a lot of this which explains the smooth slow motions. The color on this is also fantastic. I’ve been to Hawaii, and [...]

A favorite designer of mine for a while has been Nikki McClure. She creates beautiful and stark vignettes on posters, postcards, calendars, etc. They have the feel of a screen print, but she actually cuts each design out by hand with an x-acto knife, which is quite impressive. I’d love to see her actually do [...]

With my cousins in town, we all decided to head up to Mt Washington to see the sunset. It was a beautiful evening- crystal clear and great colors. I snapped some shots, and overall was pretty happy with the results. I only used my 50mm f/1.8 lens and the colors turned out nicely. So far, [...]

After doing a significant amount of research, I finally landed on the Canon EOS 550d (or rebel t2i). I actually went from a Panasonic Lumix GF1 camera to this one. I absolutely loved the GF1. Small, lightweight and took seriously sharp and bright shots. The pancake lens on this thing was great. But after a [...]