How many photos have I taken with my camera?

Cameras wear out eventually, but a quality lens is a lifetime investment. This is an important concept to remember, the next time you’re tempted to buy an expensive lens. Go for it, it’s an investment! One of the things that wears out on your camera is the shutter. And each model of camera from the [...]

Middle Fork Road update – 6/28/2014

This morning I drove the dogs out to the Middle Fork Road to see how the paving project is going. I’m not a fan of the paving project (as explained here), and hadn’t been out there since the beginning of April. The project is well underway now, with heavy equipment at several spots along the [...]

Dad’s 35mm Slides

It being Father’s Day today, I posted a photo on Facebook that I had found in some slides my Dad shot during the years 1949 to 1953. Dad was an amateur photographer his entire adult life (it’s genetic, you see), and those slides are just a tiny subset of all the photographs, negatives and slides [...]

Jamie has 5000 followers on Facebook!

This morning, Jamie Samoyed hit the 5000 follower mark on Facebook. It’s been quite a ride, four years of daily posts that have introduced us to people and dogs from all over the world. Jamie’s social media career started a few days before we ever met him. Megan and I had decided, over a drink [...]

Gearing up for Dartmoor

Megan is a big fan of the UK. She’d never use the F-word in that way, but she has studied in the UK (Oxford), she has repeatedly vacationed there (with and without me), she’s an avid reader and viewer of all sorts of UK things ranging from Jane Austen to Doctor Who and Sherlock … [...]

The case for central planning?

My friend/co-worker Leon (a native of Shanghai) asked me recently why it takes so long to build commuter train lines here in the US. Then, coincidentally, Conrad Hackett of Pew Research posted on Twitter today about subway evolution in Shanghai and Rio de Janeiro. In the image below, I’ve borrowed from Conrad’s image and added [...]

LaVonne’s Kenya Trip

My Mom took a trip to Kenya last month, and this post is in her words, with her photos, as a convenient way to share the story online with her friends. Take it away, Mom … We left Sea-Tac on February 27th and had an uneventful trip until we arrived in Nairobi, where our luggage [...]

Letter to Vid Kidz, 1982

Here is a letter I sent to video game designers Larry Demar and Eugene Jarvis (aka Vid Kidz) back in 1982. It was written in WordStar on a homemade Heath H-89 computer running CP/M, and printed on an Epson MX-80 dot-matrix printer. Thanks to Larry for being so well organized and having a scanned copy [...]

Bring it on, burglars, I’m documented now

For several years, I’ve been meaning to take photos of my camera gear just in case I ever need them for a burglary. Today I finally got around to doing so, and I’m posting this here so that I’ll be able to find the photos if needed in the future. Note to future Doug: those [...]

Jamie and Alice’s Books

We’ve put together three books so far of photos of Jamie or Jamie and Alice. Here’s a summary with links to where you can browse through each book or order a copy. As usual, these are sold with no markup from Blurb.com, and we don’t make anything from each sale. (We can’t even tell who [...]