Happy Birthday Grandma!

We had a wonderful time celebrating Grandma's 90th birthday, this is just a sneak preview (taken with my 5D Mark II and the 50mm f/1.2 lens set to f/1.6). More images to follow.

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Singing

This isn't anything riveting, just us singing happy birthday to boy boy licious. I am constantly bugging Craig to edit more videos for the blog. I think the biggest problem is that he doesn't have a workflow, which means editing takes too much time. I get the feeling that in the very near future I'm gonna have to take over the video editing and establish a workflow to make it easier. Blah, as if I have time.

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Boy Boy and his Walker

Since I was sick in bed with my laptop last week, I thought I would play around with this video Craig produced. The problem is that posting it in a blog post as a flash video, WITH controls, has proved challenging. To say that I am frustrated would be an understatement. Especially because I know and understand code. Anyway, I'm trying yet another hosting service... we'll see how it goes.

Boy boy decided when filming was over.

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Video

I love, LOVE this short video that Craig put together recently. The kiddos were playing near the window with the curtains. It's dark, it's moody, and for some reason when I watch it, I want to cry. Notice how boy boy is now shaking his head rapidly, as if he's saying no, except he doesn't understand that yet.

It's a fairly large file, and even though it's streaming, you may want to wait a minute before clicking the play button. And make sure you have your speakers on because the sound track is what makes it good.

ps. I am so sick of all the video hosting sites that screw up our files with their stupid generic compression algorithms. So I am rebelling and hosting this on my own site, which could (and probably will) have an impact on my storage space and bandwidth. I'll deal with that next Tuesday.

pps. Whenever Craig asks me something that I don't wish to answer (whether that's because I don't know the answer or I don't want to think about the answer), I always tell him... I'll let you know on Tuesday.

ppps. The reason I choose to use Tuesday is because of that song about the supposed speech Kurt Vonnegut gave years ago. Remember the one where he addresses the graduating class at MIT and tells them to wear sunscreen? He also says, "The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday."

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Vacation Video

FINALLY!! I have been asking Craig for weeks to export some video from our vacation. These clips are from the speedboat fun.

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