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  • NSOP weekends!

    NSOP weekends!

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    Well this weekend was amazing.  One of my good friends from my photo forum invited us up to his parent places in Speculator NY.  We had a total of 9 adults and 4 kids there this weekend with the kids ages 9, 19, 22, and 28 months old.  The older three had a blast with…

  • EAJ 80 week update:

    EAJ 80 week update:

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    Wow am I beat…  Busy but great weekend.  Yesterday was a sunrise (not great for shooting, maybe I’ll get to them tomorrow) then the boatshow with my parents.  We saw ~3 cool boats at the show, the MINI (the ones they do the transat it), the arrowcat (a cool catamaran motorboat) and the pure dinghies…

  • Black Point II

    Black Point II

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    Went out this morning and shot another sunrise.  The weather was crap but I really wanted to shoot so I went anyway.  It rained the entire drive down through Narragansett but stopped enough to shoot.  It was misting the entire time though so shooting into the wind was out.  It was an OK shoot, but…

  • IKEA!

    IKEA!

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    Not much going on this week/weekend.  We’d planned on going to Block Island with my parents but were rained out.  So Saturday we went to Ikea and bought a few small things and drooled on a couch we’d love but will have to wait for (never mind that we have no way to get it…

  • Weekend Sunrise(s)!

    Weekend Sunrise(s)!

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    Shot 2 sunrises this weekend.  I was supposed to have a group sunrise Saturday morning but slept in.  I guess my body was telling me I’d had enough.  Nikki ended up waking up at 6am and she got me up with enough time to walk down to our beach and get something out of it. …

  • Eye Infection?!

    Eye Infection?!

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    Well this week wasn’t much fun…  Elias managed to get an eye infection.  It was officially pre-orbital cellulitis.  He gets very bad reactions to mosquitoes and one bit him close to his eye.  That lead to an infection which made his lower eyelid swell shut.  So he went to the Dr’s once, then the eye…

  • Lots -O- pics!

    Lots -O- pics!

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    but I’m too beat to write about them…  I rented a new camera this weekend.  I’ve also been up every night all week checking out reviews and looking at pics just to make sure I make the right decision.  Anyway, I ended up shooting a ton this weekend even though we got rained in yesterday. …

  • Sachuest Bird Sanctuary III

    Sachuest Bird Sanctuary III

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    Got out shooting another landscape this morning.  Half the group bailed because of the weather, but it turned out shootable.  Not nice, but not raining.  I actually got questioned by the police as the road to Sachuest was closed due to flooding but I (carefully) drove past the sign anyway (never drove through a puddle). …

  • Hurricane Bill!

    Hurricane Bill!

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    Yeah, these are basically the same old things I usually share, just with bigger waves.  Turns out my camera may have gotten a little too wet on a wave that caught me off guard as well as it stopped working.  We’ll see how it drys out, and it’s insured, but that’s a headache I don’t…

  • Hurricane Bill!

    Hurricane Bill!

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    Well, this weekend hurricane Bill rolled through.  We didn’t get much more than a few overnight showers and some wicked swell.  The surf report said we’d get ~15′ swells around midnight Saturday into Sunday.  Not sure what we officially got, but it was rather large.  I actually went down and shot the waves at hazard…

  • Virus Elias?

    Virus Elias?

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    Yeah, it almost rhymes even?  Elias came down with something at the end of last weekend.  Thank god our doctor has office hours weekends (the office has four doctors, each doctor takes every fourth weekend, both days, 9-noon).  We were able to get Elias down to the doctor Sunday morning and found out he had…

  • Ledge Road:

    Ledge Road:

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    Went out for another sunrise this morning.  Andy had scouted out a new spot for us in Newport at the end of Ledge road.  We’re still not sure if we can legally park there (it’s a residential sticker area from 8am to 6pm and a fishing sticker needed after 9pm, but technically 5am is before…

  • Elias week 74 update:

    Elias week 74 update:

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    This week we had a pool party sponsored by Elias’ daycare.  It was Wednesday night and we had a great time even if a wicked thunderstorm rolled in.  Nikki even decided to participate in their “pie” eating contest (it was pudding).  Elias had a fun time and seemed VERY interested in the pool.  There was…

  • Block Island

    Block Island

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    Well, while on the boat at Block Island this weekend I decided to get up for a sunrise and see what would happen.  The biggest issue is you have to approach everything from the water side in the dinghy.  Being alone, that made attempting a landing pretty sketchy, nevermind in the dark.  I did try…

  • BLOCK ISLAND!!!

    BLOCK ISLAND!!!

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    Yeah, so we FINALLY made it out to BLOCK ISLAND for a weekend on avalanche with Elias!!!!  Last summer it seemed we just couldn’t get all the details (both schedules and feeling good about Elias sleeping on the boat) sorted out, and now this summer Dad has his surgery that has kept him a bit…