Family Life

A week ago I took some photos of all the parts that go into a gearbox (you can read that post here). Today they put the gearbox together. It looks a lot simpler when it’s a single, whole unit. I took some photos before they put the covers on. Here you can see the worm [...]

We made a gearbox today. We were so proud of it we had to show it off. As official photographer I put together my very first still life. It’s funny: I’ve been taking photos since 1986, and this is the first time I’ve composed and shot this most basic staple of photography and the visual [...]

My friend David asked me to photograph his family. His extended family. There’s David, his wife, and two small children. His sister-in-law, her husband, and their baby. His father-in-law and father-in-law’s sister. Are you with me still? Let’s see: that’s six adults and three children. They all want to be in the same picture. I [...]

I like golfing about as much as I like a hole in the head. We have an annual work golf tournament, excitedly anticipated by the golf nuts I work with. The first year I said I wouldn’t be going. That was looked on unfavorably. The second year I managed to be involved with a super-urgent-top-priority [...]

Nope. Didn’t do a shred of work today. I took photos instead. But first some background. We take photos of everything we make. We have archives going back years and years, back to the very early days of consumer digital photography where a camera with 2 megapixels was an advanced model. Back then photos were [...]