Last Night of Childbirth Education

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Tonight is the last night of childbirth education. Hopefully we'll be seeing this for real within the next month.

Laura Has Been Busy

Laura has discovered flickr, and has been uploading all of her photos to her flickr feed.

Enjoy some of her photos!

Lessons Learned from the North American International Auto Show

My friend Marc and I met his friend Ken at the North American International Auto Show, aka the Detroit Auto Show. This is the actual trade show where concept cars are revealed every year in Detroit.

None of us were really looking for a new car, so we went with the idea of taking some photographs. Now, I've been there before in 2006, and I don't think I did any better this time around taking photographs to be honest.

I used to shoot the 300d, which was pretty bad with noise. I now have the 20d, which does much better. Nonetheless, I convinced myself to keep the ISO low, which forced me to use wide apertures and slow shutter speeds. BIG MISTAKE.



Most photos are NOT sharp, I think because of a combination of the wide aperture (small depth of field) and my slow shutter speeds (shaky hands).

What I really should have done is bump the ISO to 800 and used some smaller apertures for better DOF. Nonetheless, Ferrari had some pretty nice cars, even though they kept the coolest one behind glass.





Of course, since I drive the mazda3, I had to check out the new Mazda concept car.

They Say It's Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Better

Great... at least this happened on a weekend. I have driven to work in this before, and it's no fun.

This is what we're dealing with

Winter has come... and it is not pleasant. Snow, freezing rain, wind, cold... very unpleasant.

Just an illustration of what I'm seeing out my back window.

The Doctors Kreitel

Laura and I attended Derek and Liz's wedding this weekend in Charlottesville, VA. We had a great time! The wedding was at Veritas Vineyard, and great wine and times were had by all.

I was in the wedding, so I didn't get many pics of the bride and groom. Here are two of my Favorites.



Matt, Eddie and Mike



View from the Veritas Porch. Derek and Liz are actually in the vineyard (notice the dot of white).

Back at you, Ryan

Ryan recently posted a photo of wilted flowers on his photo blog, so I thought I would hit him back with some. Laura and I recently celebrated our wedding anniversary, and this is what happens to flowers a week later!