I just received a message from Meg on Etsy telling me that I was featured in this weeks Indie Art inspired episode of “Decor it Yourself” on Threadbanger.com. Thanks again for the feature!
http://www.threadbanger.com/episode/DEC_20080408
You can see the following 2 photos during the section about art on Etsy
In celebration of my wife’s 30th birthday we took a trip to Rhinebeck for the weekend. Rhinebeck is a great place to escape to when you just need to get away. We stayed at a beautiful farmhouse that was built in the mid 1700’s, the Olde Rhinebeck Inn.
We were immediately greeted by the innkeeper, Jonna who made us feel right at home.
I don’t think I have ever been in a house this old. After making our way up a narrow staircase to our room we were blown away. Our room was beautiful with high ceilings with amazing wooden beams running its length.
If you want to stay within walking distance of the town of Rhinebeck then the Inn is not the right place for you. I personally prefer the quietness of staying just a few minutes outside of town. Walking out the door in the morning you are greeted by a beautiful old Barn and a small pond.
This was our 2nd trip to Rhinebeck and we will be returning at some point. I think we can both say without a doubt that The Olde Rhinebeck Inn will be our home when we do.
In order to help promote the work of photographers selling their work on Etsy.com the Photographers of Etsy (POE) group is being revived. Part of that revival includes a companion site for photographers. I created POEtic-Pixels.com to fill that role. Complete with a discussion forum, collection of useful photography related links and news feeds and eventually original member contributed articles, I hope to be able to grow it into a complete online photographers community.
Head on over and check it out.
POEtic-Pixels
I just got a Lensbaby 2.0 for Christmas and I’m having lots of fun learning and playing.
A lensbaby is a 50mm completely manual lens with a flexible body to enable you to angle the front element moving the focus point to anywhere you want. Aperture is changed by placing a small magnetic disc into the front of the lens. With no disc in place the lens shoots at F2.0 making for a really small sweet spot or up to a max of F8 by using the smallest disc. Since no blades are needed to create the opening, the aperture is perfectly round resulting in very smooth bokeh and any out of focus highlights are nice and round. In order to focus the lens you need to compress it with your fingers until the desired focus is reached. The sweet spot is fairly small and the focal plane is curved due to the fact that the lens is so simple in design and has no correction like most modern lenses do. As you can imagine this takes a bit of getting used to, but the results can be quite surreal.
You can check out their website for more info.
http://www.lensbabies.com/
It’s going to take me a while to really get the hang of this thing, but here are a few of my first shots.
Last weekend the usual crew got together for a trip to Central Park for some last minute fall foliage shots. It was a little cold out, but overall turned out to be a really fun day.
The rest of the gallery is HERE.
