we made the drive down to newport beach where matt, jen, cousin kalyn et al. were vacationing...

brooks joined in the fun for the 31st annual summer solstice parade down state st. it was a blast. our "pack of paparazzi" was a hit, here is a shot of us that made the santa barbara newspress. (i am in sunglasses facing the camera.)

v0.9 of phpslideshow has been released, head over to the downloads page for a demo and to grab a copy.

two amazing photog friends have stepped into the photo blogging world: chris orwig has joined the ranks of photo bloggers with this nicely designed blog and tad wagner launched a blog at tadwagner.com to suppliment his buzznet site... awesome stuff!

here are some photos from our long weekend in laguna beach a few weeks ago with the hoffmanns and emges.

syd steele had a fun party at the park to celebrate her 2nd birthday.

i upgraded to the latest wordpress and added an RSS feed of our Netflix queue.

the end of an era: today phoebe's pacifier "cracked" (6 MB) and macey got a pet. (20 MB)

i just received the first issue of jpg magazine. it's a great first edition, i look forward to watching it grow. the authors did a really good job describing what a photo blogger is, here is introduction: (this can also be found at the jpgmag.com site.) A Letter from...

i found this video of phoebe in the laundry basket that i took a couple of months ago...

this past weekend we drove up to onion valley in the sierras and hiked up to flower lake (10,531 ft) for a couple of epic days of snow camping. here is a short video (11 MB) of me trudging along...

on thursday my entire department went to some off-site training for around 3 hours 😉 we were doing our best to contribute to the cause...

we spent lots of time in the sun this weekend at the beach and pool, it was a great summers weekend! In addition to the photos, here are a couple of cute videos of phoebe throwing stones (7MB) in the tide pool and wading around (4MB)...

some of the santa barbara photo geeks are getting together at half-past bloody-early (6:30 AM) on tuesday morning at the new starbucks on cota and state. if you happen to be in the area, please join in on the fun. basically, we just walk around taking pictures of...

i have taken the plunge and converted my site over to wordpress... the last time i did a major cms change was way back in 2002! it was a lot easier to use wordpress than to write the whole thing myself 🙂 there is still more work to be done but it is close...

trevor gave me a holga 120s medium format camera the other day. i have not touched film for years, it was a blast! here are a few of the shots, a couple of cool ones including some multi exposures...

i built a trigger and delay circuit to mess around with high speed photography. here are my first results pretty fun, now i just need an apple and a gun 🙂

martyn registered photothursday.com so our weekly photo project has a permanent home. thanks bro!

i installed a copy of pixelpost's photoblogging software. i am in the very early stages of learning how to use a non point-and-shoot camera this gives me a place to keep track of my progress. my goal is to post an image per day here...

i took a boat to work yesterday to visit our flooded ventura campus...