Disher Family Fodder
The original dishers.com photo gallery has been restored. There are a few photos that aren’t in there but that won’t matter much. Newer content is still posted to the picassa/Google Gallery, but that may change soon.
Claudine just picked up a camera on her trip to Vermont. I’m sure she’ll be taking more and more photos to share. Those will more than likely be posted in this gallery.
I’m very fortunate to have a boss who’s a photo fanatic. He’s also much quicker to drop the coin on new gear than I. He shoots some sport photography (hockey) and some nature stuff too. He’s gotten pretty good. The sports stuff can be fairly demanding. Getting good action shots in low light conditions usually means big fast lenses and cranking up the ISO. Something that always adds to the grain and noise in digital photos.
When the new Nikons came out, it didn’t surprise me that he’s be right there with a new rig. I was fortunate enough to borrow his D3 this weekend to do some last minute candid shooting at a worship service and teaching seminar at my in-laws church. This was a perfect place to show off this camera’s low-light, high-iso, with little noise capabilities.
I went into this a little blind. Nobody knew what was going on, and I had exactly ZERO experience with this camera. I have no doubt with a little practice the D3 could have been used better.
Note all of these photos were handheld, no flash, and the church was less than ideal light wise.
While I had the camera for the above assignment, I took the opportunity to shoot some portraits of the kids. Natural lighting, in our living room which leaves much to be desired, it’s not the ideal place to do it but it was far too cold outside. A little fill flash added as needed.
The rest of the photos can be found here: Picasa Web Album
This camera is pretty sweet, and I have a birthday coming up (hint-hint).
🙂
Michael took Jenny to the home school prom this evening…
He’s a lucky guy 🙂
From Michael and J…
From Michael and J…
From Michael and J…
She’s not doin to bad herself 🙂 The photos in the Google/Picasa Web Albums are not the full high-res photos, if you need one of those for printing let us know.
Yes, the snow came 2/6/2007.
First, since they actually predicted it, I was shocked that it actually snowed.
The drive home from work at 3:30pm on the 6th was uneventful, special but uneventful. It only took an hour and 15 minutes vs. the normal 25 minutes.
All in all that’s pretty good given the amount of snow.
We’re still digging out, the horses are having a blast in the snow, and it would be great to have a path to get back to the barn easily.
Photos here: picasaweb.google.com/mdisher/WhiteDeath2707
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It’s that time of year again. Time for the gymnasts to warm up and demonstrate their skills. CGA puts together a Mock Meet, a mini-meet where the girls go through the motions. They invite (pay) real judges to come and score the girls so that the coaches have a feeling for where the girls stand before the actual meet season starts.
That day was yesterday.
I have posted the photos that I too online in my/out Google Web Album space.
I broke the photos out into two galleries.
(1) Mock-Meet General Photos, which is a non-specific lump of photos that are not Molly centric. If I took a photo of your daughter, you’ll find it in here. Nearly all of the photos are of girls in my daughters rotation, though I did snap a few candids here and there as well as a couple of other girls who were still doing their thing when Molly’s rotation was sitting.
(2) Molly – Mock-Meet , this lump of photos is Molly specific.
The photos are what they are. Not nearly as good as I would have hoped to turn out. Essentially I had a very bad ‘photographer’ day. Every location I started to take photos from had some sort of issue to deal with, from the #$%@ balloons at the judges table, to people opening the rear door and letting significant light in (It was very, very bright outside) too simply being too close for the lens that I had and having an over head light be right behind the girls to mess with the meter readings. In any event, the photos are posted, most are still very enjoyable.
You can download fairly high resolution images from Picasa Web/Google. If there is a specific photo that you want the original HighRes photo for just let us know, simply email Claudine or me and we’ll get it to you one way or another.