New Print Site

I don't really have a lot of time for doing web stuff but I ran across a few articles talking about SmugMug and decided to check it out. After checking it out a little bit I decided to give it a try. A few hours work last night and this morning and now I have this. This is a huge improvement over Shutterfly (I didn't know what I was missing!) so I'll be moving all my galleries over to there.

Pictures from ConVocation

Pictures from ConVocation are now up at flickr. I have also set up a print ordering site.

Back to the mundane world

ConVocation is over and all the people I love so much have left our little magickal oasis to return to their day jobs and mundane responsibilities - as must I. But there is still work to do for ConVocation - as a start I will need to process all photos I took over the last four days and set up galleries. Here we go ...

Getting Started

I have created my "Hire Me" site to hawk my services as a photographer. I am using Coppermine to provide Photo Galleries. Hopefully in the next few months things will start getting interesting.

Brownies!

I made a batch of The Barefoot Contessa's Outrageous Brownies tonight. I made a couple changes though:
I increased the dark chocolate to 8 oz and reduced the chocolate chips to compensate.
I added 1 Tbsp Cinnamon (yes a full tablespoon - there's a ton of chocolate in these!) and 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
To accomodate some friends tastes I only used half the walnuts -- I poured half the batter into the pan, added the walnuts to the remaining batter and added that. This worked better than I expected as once the batter had cooled to room tempurature it was pretty thick and easy to control.
Finally, the first time I made them I cut the batch into 20 pieces - most people found these too large so I reduced them to 2x2 inch squares.
Final verdict? Yum!

Northville Fire And Ice Festival

Northville had their Fire and Ice Festival today. Festivities included a chili cook-off. I liked the chili from Independence Village best. The offerings from the Lazy Lizard, Charley's Deli, and O'Charleys Restaurant were excellent as well.

Pinhole goes digital ... sort of

OK - this isn't pinhole at all, but it is way cool! This guy takes apart flatbed scanners and builds homemade cameras around the sensors. End result: 100 MegaPixel camera (take that Hasselblad!). Another neat thing is due to the nature of the sensor he is getting really interesting distortions. I still want to try pinhole, but now I want to try this too.