Painfully Hopeful

NaNoWriMo – Story Time

Throughout November I’ll be concentrating my posts on Welcome to the Valleys in honor of NaNoWriMo. If you’d like to catch up on this story, the first post of this story can be found at this link To Jeremy’s shock, Tollen’s eyes seemed to come alive with delight. “Oh. I suppose you’re going to be…

A Walk on the beach

The weather was very nice today, and I felt like heading out to take some pictures. So I called my neighbor and we headed out to Palmyra Nature Cove to walk the paths and see what we could see. I had contemplated bringing my tripod and TP-Link router so I could try out some HDR…

An “oops” and an anouncement

Yesterday I promised a screencast showing qDSLRdashboard in action. I did, in fact, record a video, edited it, and posted it on youtube. I then realized, as I watched the video on youtube, that I had forgotten to apply an editing change across all my cuts 1. This rendered the video unusable, as the key…

qDSLRdashboard in action

Yesterday I wrote about my acquisition of a battery-powered router to use as a wireless tether for my Nikon DSLR. Today I have a short video ready to show it in action. This demonstrates the router working in conjunction with my iPad, which is how I’ll be using it 1. The image to the left…

DIY Wireless Photography Tether

Over the last few years, I have greatly enjoyed my transition to DSLR photography. Using this tool I have been able to explore taking the photographs I’ve always envisioned in my imagination. Taking photos the traditional way, raising the viewfinder to my eye and framing the shot, is absolutely my preferred method of capture. A…

Unpacking In Motion

This week’s section marked a first. I actually scrapped a piece after it was about one third of the way written and started over. It just seemed as though the words I was writing was pulling the characters away from where they wanted to go. In the end, I’m quite happy with how the passage…