Tags: beach, camera, CoolPix , Friday_Foto, Photography, San-Diego, sunset
Pourpa needed a new printer for school this year. So I gave him my inexpensive Canon PIXMA 1600 that I had bought for $50 awhile back. To replace the color printer, I also bought another $50 printer at Fry’s, an Epson Stylus R320 photo printer. It’s my first foray into Epson printing. Someday I hope to get this one if I ever start printing high-quality photos. But for now, this refurbished one is just fine for me.
Tags: Announcements, Canon, Epson, geek_stuff, Photography, PIXMA, Pourpa, printer, quick_links
Tags: birthday, boats, candy, CoolPix , Friday_Foto, Photography, piñata, San-Diego, Seaport-Village
Tags: bikes, CoolPix , Friday_Foto, lagoon, landscape, Pensacola, Photography, Travels, tree
Yesterday Josephine and I decided to start a photography business, mainly for shooting pics and home videos for birthday parties and other special occasions. I got the idea because my buddy John from high school asked me to shoot pics at his son’s 2nd birthday party last May. It was a lot of fun and very easy to get great shots of all the people, kids, and the star of the day.
So to start off, I thought I would first create a photoblog to showcase some of my best work. The photoblog will be slightly different than the repository of photos we store on flickr. On the photoblog there will be much fewer pictures since it will serve as a gallery/portfolio.
To create the new photoblog, I used the free open source photoblogging software called PixelPost. Then I used a free template and modified it using CSS and a little bit of HTML. As of right now, I only have one photo in the gallery, but I plan to upload more in the next few days and weeks and add some additional functionalities on the site, nothing major since I don’t know how to program stuff.
The only page not done on the site is the page that describes the services I plan to offer. It’s about 2:30 AM and I’ve been working on it all afternoon and evening (taking a short break for church). So the services page will have to wait until later.
The business and site name were kind of challenging to come up with. All the cool domain names were already taken like 1000words.com, photologica.com, inspiredimages.com :p (that’s a shoutout to my buddy Ennis). So I started looking at some Greek words since photography comes from the Greek word “fotografia”. And that’s how I came up with the name photo • teknis. You already know what the first word comes from. The second word, teknis, is the Greek word for “artist”. Thus, the translation… photography artist.
And so I present: phototeknis.com.
Tags: Announcements, Blogging, business, CSS, HTML, Photography, PixelPost, site_announcements, web_design
Last week I upgraded this site to WordPress 2.0.4. I forgot to mention that earlier. Thanks to Mark, I did the backup and upgrade via SSH in about 3 seconds.
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Above all Earthly Pow’rs by David Wells
Date Read: August 3rd, 2006
Introduction — pages 1-12
Chapter Outline:
Introduction
Summary:
Key Quotes:
My Question: If evangelical spirituality is becoming non-doctrinal, what is the difference between evangelicalism and other spiritualities?
Reflection: When I first was going through the teacher credentialing program in 1992, I really disliked the “Multicultural Education” class that I was required to take. I felt like as a teacher you had to cater to every single lifestyle that you might encounter. The big buzz word in the class was “values clarification”. I was irritated that we were taught to be “valueless”, that there were no absolutes.
Since 1992 this relativistic attitude has become even more prevalent. This is the milieu that we live in. Instead of fighting this, maybe it’s time the church learns to adapt, to bring its message, which is radically different and full of absolutes, into a relevant context so that postmodern people are drawn to it. I’m curious to read further, to open my mind, and see what God will do in my heart.
Tags: Books, culture, Life, postmodern, Reflection, Religion, Spiritual
I’m registered. At the end of September I am attending this. The conference theme and title were inspired by this book. So I am going to try to read all of it before the conference starts. It’s pretty serious reading, so in order to better understand it, I will try to write about various sections of my reading and reflect on them here.
Tags: Announcements, Books, conference, Desiring-God, John-Piper, Life, quick_links, Spiritual
