Washington Spaces Magazine
I began working with Dégagé of McLean, Virginia about 6 months ago. Most of the shoots have been of their very unique line of Flat Screen TV Furniture which can hide a large TV when you are not viewing it. The line is hand made and very beautiful.
But more recently, I have been photographing the exquisite interiors created by owner, Trudy Simmons. She really loves her work and it shows in the rooms she creates for her clients. We used one of the shots in the premier Washington DC interior design magazine, Washington Spaces. I thought the ad really worked well. (click for larger)
Newseum Daily Headlines and Automator
One of my clients wanted to download the front page of several newspapers each day and make them easily accessible to the entire staff. When they asked me for help, they were doing it manually by visiting the Newseum’s website and downloading the front page of each paper manually (via bookmarks in their web browser) and then using PDF Combiner to output 18 front pages as a single PDF. Then they would email the 10-20MB file to everyone.
Well there were a number of issues with that approach including the manual process (time consuming) and the large file which was filling up outboxes and inboxes. At first we explored how to make the PDFs into smaller files…perhaps a JPG of the page instead of a PDF. But this was problematic as it was then hard to read the fine print if the reader actually wanted to read an article as opposed to just seeing the headlines.
No commentsThat’s a lot of Rain!
From the news I understand we have received 3-5″ of rain in the last few days. And from my basement, I can concur!
Tomorrow will be a great day to visit Great Falls National Park. The river guage at Little Falls estimates the river will peak at over 9 feet which is just below flood stage. The kids and I went two weeks ago and enjoyed some terrific views, but that was only at 7 feet (picture below).
If you have never been to GFNP during a flood, don’t miss out!
Conservatory Ballet Spring Demo
I took a bunch shots at the Spring Demo’s a few weeks ago. The performance took place in a community center near the school and it is not the best “stage” for the dancers or the photographer as you will see. But I think I was able to get the background “out of the shots” as much as possible.
The main event is next week where they will perform at the Madeira School in Great Falls. Tickets are available online, but you better hurry!
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Bose 901 Speakers, Free(cycle)
I could not believe my eyes last week when I saw a pair of Bose 901 Series V speakers go up on Freecycle. The freecycler said they “needed some repair as one of the drivers was bad”. I responded immediately and tried to explain how handy I was and how I could likely fix them. An hour later, she responded and said I could have them. I jumped in the car…
When I got home, I didn’t even hook them up. I called Bose and they said for $100 plus shipping (one way), they would refurbish them to like new condition and ship them back for free! So $142 later, I have them back and they are awesome! Well, I guess a $1,400 pair of speakers should sound great :-)
Complete with sales receipt (from 1984, purchase at a Naval exchange for $800), two manuals, and stands.
If you don’t freecycle, you are throwing away stuff people want and likely missing out on stuff you would normally spend money on…perhaps BIG money.
No commentsPapal Visit
I nearly got caught in the Pope’s drive through Washington the other day from his place up in Northwest to the Whitehouse. Luckily, the timing was right and we got the the National Building Museum for our field trip without issue.
Jon Stewart’s take below :-)
No commentsAll Scouts Caught a Fish!
When you take a group of scouts fishing, it rather vaguely resembles the sport. They don’t really want to touch the worms (yuk!), they are constantly within 1/1000th of an inch of getting the hook lodged in their arm (or worse!), and they are screaming at each other throughout the process (which can be heard by the fish of course).
But on this warm April afternoon, I took 7 scouts fishing at the little pond near the school and everyone caught at least one fish! They were really biting. There’s something about catching your first fish, that is really exciting.
Just some headshots
For a photographer, head shots are usually just a repetitive part of the job. I try and work the lighting and subjects a little to get some natural reactions and nice smiles.
Overall, I am pleased with these shots I took yesterday. They were for a DC Political Law firm downtown. They wanted some fairly typical business shots but they also wanted to convey a sense of being “fun to work with” and “not a bunch of stuffy Republicans” (they are Dems). I think that comes across :-)
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