Outdoors, Photography

November Snow

Red Maple, November Snow

I don’t seem to remember snow being mentioned in the classic Guns N’ Roses song. Alas, this is where we find ourselves in Chicagoland…temperatures 25º F below normal, and our first measurable snowfall on November 9th.

Winter isn’t coming, it’s already here.

Photography

Difference of a Year

What a difference a year makes. These two images were taken almost exactly one year apart…the first on March 29, 2012, the second on March 28, 2013.

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Personal, Photography

Instagram Fun

Carson & Papa, Thanksgiving 2011

Almost a year after Instagram was released, I decided to download the app and give it a try. Instagram is just a fun way to share photos. With Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. integration, they have made it brain-dead simple to share photos across these platforms. I am not the biggest fan of the retro filters that seem to evoke the Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid cameras, but I do like a few of them. In the right instance, Instagram’s filters can definitely give a photo an added retro-something.

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