A year ago I decided to take as a challenge to find interesting (and hopefully good!) shots in our own yard. The result is the growing photo set at Flickr called “Backyard.” (It does contain some pictures from the front yard as well.) Today we had a good bit of […]
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Just a quick note to apologize for intermittent blogging and to say that I hope to be back in full swing soon. Last week really took a lot out of me, what with the Patriot Tour and then E’s trip down to New Orleans. Things are still going on with […]
Saturday morning my colleagues and I flew out for Boston and a whirlwind trip that I am calling “The Patriot Tour.” We are taking our campaign case to some of our most ardent supports of the College. Our first night was at the Colonial Inn, established in 1716. They had […]
Tomorrow morning I will be hitting the road for the next five days (making the rounds and making our case for the capital campaign). While getting ready I have been listening to the BBC’s “Thought for the Day.” For Yom Kippur the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, had a wonderful piece. […]
Last night I went to campus with the kids for a walk. We started playing with long exposures and had the following fun. (Follow the link by clicking on the picture for more examples.) It was quite late and fairly dark which is how we were able to do the […]
For those just returning to Targuman, I haven’t completely changed modes of blogging, it is just that I received a new camera (Sony Alpha D100) and I have having a great time using it. To that end, I thought I would share my pictures with you all. The new version […]
A picture of a dried rose, white balance set to “tungsten,” and then de-saturated. If you use a flash with the tungsten setting you get surprising results: 🙂
These are just lights we strung on our back porch. This time, playing with both depth of field and lighting conditions. If anyone likes any of my images and would like to use it for a desktop image/wallpaper, simply email me with the resolution you would like and I will […]
One of the great things about State College is that on my 4 mile “commute” I drive past horses, cattle, poultry barns, sod farms (85% of the grass used on all golf courses in the world were developed at PSU), and pigs. I love it. So the horses were grazing […]
Just playing with the camera again. This time my subject is a toy John Deere tractor that sits on my desk in the office. I was testing out available light, close up, and using fill flash.