ben lowery

OK, this was random. Our friend Erin was flipping channels and came
across a special on the History International channel called Treasure! King Harod’s Lost City,
about Caesarea. The Wife was on a dig at Caesarea for two years, right
when they were filming the special and funnily enough, she has a small
part in the special right at the beginning! She’s shown writing
something down for a short time.. We’re currently watching it through
to see if she has any more little parts to play in the special.

Update! There’s a full on face shot right near the end of the special. The Wife says she’s writing down what was found in the trench that day. This is just so odd. We’re going to have to order this one on VHS. Just wish they had DVDs of it… Looks like it’ll be on again at 5 today.

I was poking around in the Fred Miranda forums and found this thread on awful experiences with Adorama.
I’ve purchased a few items from their store in NYC in person, but never
over the web site or over the phone. My personal experience with them
was quite fine, but it’s interesting to see the wide variance in
experience. I think I’ll stick with B&H…

I was folding our first batch of laundry from the new place this
evening and had a vague recollection of a fast folding technique for
shirts I’d seen somewhere. Google to the rescue, I found it.

It just occured to me that a bunch of my friends are probably on
flickr and I just don’t know it. If you’re on flickr, fire me off an
invite or add me as a contact or something. I’m blowery.

I’m a bit of a photography nut, especially this no longer new-fangled digital stuff. I’ve been an avid Photoshop user since version 4 or so and I really enjoy using the product. One of the great things about Photoshop is the third-party plug-in community. I use a utility from the folks over at PixelGenius called PhotoKit Sharpener for all my sharpening needs. The product kicks butt and makes easy a lot of the advanced sharpening techniques you read about in the trade rags.

Anyway, the point of this post is this: if you decide to buy one of the products from the folks at PixelGenius, there’s a hidden benefit. By purchasing a product, you get access to their private forums. These things are worth the purchase price alone. I had a whacko Photoshop problem crop up today where it would totally hang when launched. I posted my problem and had a number of suggestions on how to work-around it in about two hours. One of them actually worked (I had a corrupted font) and now Photoshop is happily processing pixels once again. I can’t say how happy I am with these folks. They’re prompt, courteous and extremely on top of what they’re doing. If you’re someone who lives a lot in Photoshop, I would highly recommend taking a look at their products.