Every morning, I walk out to my car to find a new one of these. I feel a little bad getting in and driving away, destroying all the spider’s hard work. He’s one persistent little bugger, though. Without fail, a new web is spun the next morning. This cycle has been repeating itself for about a month already. Now that’s dedication!
Wow… here’s a tax I never knew New York had under it’s belt – the Jock Tax. I believe that professional athletes are grossly overpaid, but targeting a tax specifically on their profession seems even more unfair than the fact that guys that could barely graduate from high school make multimillion dollar salaries to play…
I have been enjoying my Canon Digital Rebel XTi now for about a year and a half. The one thing that had been annoying me, though, was the complete inability to be able to shoot anything that required more than natural light. With the baby on the way, I really wanted to start learning how…
For Easter I made four 2kg batches of sausage – two for the smoker, one fresh batch for the grill, and a batch of breakfast sausage links (not shown). It was my first time using curing salts and smoking the sausage at a lower temp (160-180 F) than normal smoking temps. It was a tasty experiment, I…
I love architectural photography. For this trip I rented a Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens to take with me, and I wasn’t disappointed. Most of the photos you’re seeing in this series were taken with this lens, as it’s great for walking down narrow European streets and pulling as much into the frame as possible. It…
Now Derek, if there is one thing we learned in middle school its that persistence usually pays off in the long run. Or so says Ms. Gillespie. Or was it Mr. Mockler? Perhaps Mr. Cyran? No, it must have been Ms. Mustard, God rest her soul.
Persistance? I’d call it insanity. You know, that whole doing the sme thing over and over again expecting a different result…