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SF Roof Top

38/365 SF Roof Top, originally uploaded by Kirk Howard.

Image 38/365 Shot from my Sister-in-laws roof top. She recently moved to a new place in San Francisco. She now lives in a snow globe. When sitting on her couch she has a view from Yerba Buena Island to Russian HIll. This view includes the Bay Bridge, Coit Tower, Cathedral at Washington Square and Transamerican building.

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Orpheum Theatre

37/365 Orpheum Theatre, originally uploaded by Kirk Howard.

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I really think I should have named this where’s Waldo. My wife and her sister went into San Francisco to see the Play Wicked at the Orpheum Theatre. I was there only to meet them for dinner.

I snapped this image as I saw my wife, she is the short blonde that is looking at me.

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Oak Gall Art

36/365 Oak Gall Art, originally uploaded by Kirk Howard.

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My wife is a 3/4 grade teacher. This term they are doing a study of the local indians that lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. One of the things they do is create a piece of art from a “Oak Gall” or “Wasp Gall”. These were the best among and my wife asked me if I would photograph them.

Strobist Info:
SB600
Pocket Wizards II
Lasolite 24in. EzyBox
(2) 3/16 White Core Foam Board

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New Western Digital Portable Hard Drives


My Passport Studio Ultra-portable Hard Drives

My Passport Studio Ultra-portable Hard Drives

I have blogged several time about backing up my photos and Hard Drive. I use mostly Western Digital external hard drives. Wester Digital has recently released a new series of “My Passport” and “My Book” HD with a new feature called E-label.

Camera Dojo’s, Kerry Garrison shared a blog post written by Maurice Naragon. Here is the link to the blog post written by Maurice Naragon, My Passport Studio for Mac from Western Digital.

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My Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

  • the puck drops in 9 min. for the USA vs. CAN mens Olympic Hockey… #
  • Can you believe that… less then 24 sec. to go and Team USA ties it up… #
  • CRAP! #
  • What a great way to finish off the 2010 Winter Olympic Games #
  • Egg Management Fee…? Ugh! I know what that is… #
  • Test 1234… Testing 1234… Check, check… #
  • Cold front pushed in overnight. It was 42ºF outside when I kissed my wife goodbye. #
  • Manfrotto: Learn a lot over lunch seminar held live online on: Friday March 5th @ 1PM ET/ 10AM PT. http://bit.ly/cDphsv #
  • http://content.mkt922.com/mson/2010/03/04/0NEU681AIaCG/index.html #
  • Lensbaby Turns 6 – Birthday Giveaway http://bit.ly/aebnqw #
  • You could win one of these 24-105mm Coffee cups here dslrnewsshooter.com http://bit.ly/8Xdnaa #
  • Urban Photography: Top Tips for Shooting in the City http://bit.ly/bz8cDr (@ricksammon) #

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Urban Mushroom

35/365 Urban Mushroom, originally uploaded by Kirk Howard.

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I found these mushrooms on a tree just down the street from my house. I waited until the afternoon light. Since the light was fading I used a 12 inch silver reflector to get light under the mushrooms.

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Corned Beef & Cabbage

34/365 Corned Beef & Cabbage, originally uploaded by Kirk Howard.

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This is another meal I cooked in my Slow Cooker.

Strobist Info:
SB600
Pocket Wizards II
Lasolite 24in. EzyBox
3/16 White Core Foam Board

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Why Stay with Lightroom?

Matt Kloskowski of NAPP and the infamous Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips, has come out with a response to the Apples release of their Aperture 3. He has a blog post of 5 Reasons to Stay with Lightroon? posted Feb 15, 2010.

I will let you got to the link above to view the entire post. But, here are my quick thoughts on the Lightroom vs. Aperture. First, any program that makes my life easier is a good program. When I first got my MacBook Pro, I was given a trial version of Apples Aperture 1. It was a step up from iPhoto, because it offered more post processing control over the current version of iPhoto at the time. I knew I wanted to go the Adobe Lightroom way, because of the workflow is designed to work better with other Adobe products i.e. Photoshop. Another reason I chose Lightroom over Aperture, is the fact that most plug-ins a free, and more user presets.

Aperture has one major benefit that I looked into to help me make a decision to go with Apple Aperture. In the early days I really used the iLife programs especially iWeb and iMovie/iDVD. Aperture works seamless with these programs. However, as my needs grew beyond what these programs offered, my interest in Aperture diminished. I nolonger use iWeb for my web publishing, I use Adobe Dreamweaver CS4.

In conclusion, any program that makes photo post processing easier for anyone whether it is Lightroom, Aperture, iPhoto, Adobe Bridge or one of the other web 2.o programs available, I think you should use the best one for your needs.

Post your comment, thoughts or ideas in the comment section below or take the survey.

Matt’s Final Thoughts:

Final Thoughts
If you’re a current Lightroom user, you’re among the group of the most used photo management/processing software in the world. There’s a reason why when you do a search for buzz, news, tutorials, presets, etc… on Lightroom vs. the same for Aperture, you find much more about Lightroom. It’s an awesome program and like anything out there, will just get better with time. Be happy with it. If your curiosity just has to get the best of you then by all means, download the free trial of Aperture and give it a try yourself. Maybe you’ll switch. If that’s the right thing for you then go for it. Just don’t do it because it’s new and different. As always, leave a comment. I welcome your thoughts on the topic (just be nice) :-)


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What’s happening?

Is the tag on the top of my twitter page. I am doing some home matiance on my blog and web site, while watching the Olympic Men’s Bronez Metal match between Finland and Slovakia. Slovakia has just scored and the score is now FIN 1 – SVK 1, half way through the second period.

Anyways, one of the thing that I have been working on is my tweets for twitter. I installed two WordPress plug-ins the past few days. The first is Tweetmeme. Tweetmeme is the little twitter retweet button you see at the bottom of each post. After reading a few blogs and articles that I found on Social Networking, I figured that I would get a little more active on Twitter. this is a good way for other blog readers, fans or whatever to tweet my blog post.

I also added another Twitter plug-in for WordPress that will tweet my post to my Twitter account with a Bit.ly URL. This is for those that aren’t reders of FishEye Studio blog, but are my Twitter Followers they too can enjoy what I have to say… right!

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Alcatraz Island

33/365 Alcatraz Island, originally uploaded by Kirk Howard.

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Here is a early morning image of Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay. I was walking from Pier 39 to my sister-in-laws apartment.

The morning light was great. The sun wasn’t so high in the sky that it casted shadows, plus the air was clean from the previous nights rainstorm.

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