Allie’s new classic soccer team

Allie tried  out for the Northeast United U11 girls team and made the squad. She will be playing with 5th graders in the fall. She has a busy summer of soccer planned, she is doing 3 soccer camps (U of P, Concordia, and Bernie Fagan) and she is practicing 3 days a week with the [...]

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Soccer pictures

Finally got around to updating some of Allie’s soccer pictures. She played on the Revolution for Fall Rec and played for the Force for fall/winter indoor Futsal. She really enjoyed getting to know all the girls. She is currently playing on a different Futsal team with a group of new girls and practices Classic Soccer on [...]

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Christmas at the cabin

Due to the snow and power failure, we barely made it in, and after two days of snowfall, we almost didn’t make it out. What a great weekend, we will never forget this Christmas. Huge snowball fights and sledding were the highlights for the kids.
More pics coming……check back soon

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Audrey in from Arizona

Audrey flew in for a few days last week, the stay was short but sweet. Alyssa made a sign for Allie to hold while we waited at the airport. Grandma and Grandpa met us at the airport for a quick dinner, Marko joined us later, then we all waited for her arrival. From the airport [...]

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Historic Daymusic Pictures

Nathan was just over with Nick’s first guitar lesson. He said he had posted a bunch of old historic Daymusic pictures. Looks like there was alot of work finding, scanning and posting the images, its great to have these! Sounds like exciting things happening with the building and the theater…….. You can check them out [...]

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Abbie Turns 2

Well a little bit late, but I posted a few pictures of Abbie’s second birthday party at the house. Grandma and Grandpa came, Abbie really took a liking to ripping into her presents. She also likes to sing ‘Happy Birthday to me’.

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Thanksgiving 2007 at the Cabin

Well Thanksgiving at the cabin went by fast. We arrived Wednesday afternoon, there was a few inches of snow outside, Grandma and Grandpa had the inside toasty warm for our arrival. Mark, Jenny and the kids came Thursday morning with some fancy doughnuts for breakfast. Many walks through the woods, alot of great meals, including [...]

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Halloween 2007

Halloween was a great night for the kids, weather was warm and fairly dry. Nick spent his night with buddies and Allie was with her friends cross town, we all hooked up later in the evening and finished the night together. We stayed out until 9:30 and the kids both had huge bags of candy [...]

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HDR and Draganizer

     Here is another example of HDR, but with a twist. After converting multimple images in Photomatix, the image was then Draganized. This is an action in photoshop that is easily installed, you can download the action here.
The procedure seems to be sharpening, creating an overall color tone, “light painting” for shading, and adding [...]

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Portland’s Union Train Station HDR

         This image of Portland’s Union Train Station was taken at night, I combined 3 images (different exposures) from RAW. Left is straight from camera, on the right is the HDR conversion.  I used Photmatix to combine the images and then tweaked the master file with CS2. Below is the definition of HDR:
high dynamic [...]

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