We had a short rain shower today – standard fare for an Ohio summer – and Anthony wanted to go out in it to play. At first he ran around with childlike abandon, and I snapped some shots with my Nikkor 85mm f/1.4, but for some reason every one was horribly out of focus. I didn't notice anything wrong at the time, but anyway, I wanted to get closer without getting wet, so I switched to my Nikkor 70-200mm.

In the short minute that it took for me to get the lens and switch, Anthony's mood went from arms-swinging-around-dancing-like-a-kid play [...]

While I was busy with Lightroom things the other day, my sister and mom took Anthony and Josh out to a big public playground in Stow...

Anthony's Aunt Natalie (my brother's Alan's wife) was in town, and stopped by with her mom for a visit. After a while, everyone went out to the sand pile to chat and play, and I ran for my camera...

Bubbles are always a hit, because kids love bubbles. Any time.

The Facebook plugin is new for Lightroom 2 (and still very "beta"), while the others are totally rewritten versions of the plugins I had for Lightroom 1. (If you are currently a user of one of my Lightroom 1 plugins, be sure to see the section on migration later in this post.)

I'm also releasing Jeffrey's Metadata Wrangler Export Filter, a plugin filter that allows selective control of which metadata is written into exported images, regardless of the kind of export. Export filters (what Adobe calls "post-process actions") are an officially supported replacement for the "piglet" plugin infrastructure that I [...]

At the moment, I'm sitting out by the sandpile at my folks' place where Anthony and his cousin Josh like to play, with my laptop working on some new Lightroom tools while the kids play. How silly of me not to have brought my camera, because there are so many adorable scenes as the kids – 2 years old and five years old – play together.

Just now, Josh was holding a big plastic baseball bat taller than he was, running in circles after Anthony, who carried a big red ball. It started as Anthony trying to get away from [...]
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