Weekend Bliss, originally uploaded by vsacker. Q: What does a Lensbaby have in common with drinking? A: They both allow you creative focus on a variety of subjects. I got two things I have been looking forward to for a while this past Friday: a margarita (or three) and a Lensbaby 2.0 lens for my [...]

I’ve been trying to find a good day to take off work for a little while now.  I haven’t taken a day off this year, and while that isn’t a lot of time, it has been rather stressful at work and a day off has been much needed.  I was planning to take off a [...]

Strobeless Jump, originally uploaded by vsacker. One of my Christmas presents this past year was a Strobist lighting kit from MPEX photo (kits here). I hadn’t really played with it until this past weekend, but the wet and cold weather foiled my plans to go out and shoot and left me inside to mess around. [...]

Piazza San Pietro, originally uploaded by vsacker. First of all, this is my first attempt to post straight from Flickr, so we’ll see how this goes… A little later in the week than I would have liked, I got around to processing an older image. This is actually four images stitched together with software from [...]

After almost 3.5 weeks out of work for paternity/holiday/leave, I’m getting ready to head back to the office tomorrow.  I got a head-start on getting back into what I hope becomes a solid routine, processing some photos I shot earlier in the week and posting them here. On Monday, I went into the office, nominally [...]