The theme of this summer's family get-together is "Grandma and Grandpa Friedl's grandchildren", though I've tended to frame it from Anthony's point of reference with posts like "Conflagration of Cousins" and "More Cousins 'n Such". Six of the grandchildren have been featured in posts during the last two weeks, but one remains, Grandchild #6½, due at the end of November. He or she will Anthony's sixth cousin, and will be Uncle Mikey and Aunt Chickee's #3, after four-year-old Grace and two-year-old Luke.

I wanted the as-yet-unnamed cousin to be represented in my posts, so I asked Chickee to pose for [...]

The other day's post about all of Anthony's cousins getting together for the first time started with a photo titled "Luke's Toes". I really like it, but it's Luke's eyes that are most amazing. Like most toddlers, his eyes gaze around to whatever his mind is paying attention to at the moment (which is not, to a parent's consternation, generally what the parent wants him to pay attention to). But when Luke decides to fix his gaze on you, wow, what eyes. Arresting!

Today is Luke's birthday. Happy Birthday, little buddy!

The picture above is a fairly tight crop from [...]

As soon as I switched to a Nikon D700 from a Nikon D200, I started getting corrupt memory cards. I brought the camera to the Nikon Service Center in Osaka, but they said that it's probably the memory card that's the problem. I used only Transcend compact flash cards, which are not on the official supported list, so they suggested that I move to an officially-supported card.

In those early days, the problem manifested itself with a scrambled view of the image on the D700's screen, but they downloaded fine and I never had other problem with the images. In [...]
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In what is almost certainly the most ridiculous thing I have ever done in my entire life, I've created an export-to-Photobucket plugin for Adobe Lightroom.

I fully understand that the intersection of Photobucket users with Lightroom users is exactly the empty set, but Photobucket's API is well documented and they use a kind of authentication that I wanted to test. So there it is.

I've just released a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom, for uploading directly to Expono. This joins my other uploaders (for Zenfolio, SmugMug, Flickr, PicasaWeb, and Facebook) on my Lightroom Goodies page. There you'll also find other plugins for various tasks, such as metadata management, geoencoding, proximity search, video-asset management, etc.