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Skiing at Lutsen – We went skiing at Lutsen, Minnesota over Christmas this year. It was a nice relaxing trip, but we skied in blizzard conditions right around freezing for the first two days so it was pretty wet. We had a really nice day on the third day and I got a few picture. (Yes – I do carry my camera with me, but I leave the tripod behind!)

Panorama Show – I took the panorama show down on December 30, 2009 after a two-month showing. Here are a few pictures of the show. Thanks to everyone who took a look at it. Also, a big thanks to the Appleton Public library for letting me put on the show. I had a lot of nice comments.

Model Lighting Workshop – Our own Fox Valley Camera Club with a lot of help from Photo World put on a model lighting seminar at the Photo World building. It was great for me to get another opportunity to get some great nuggets of information from Joel, Jackie and Jim. I particularly liked the high key set up as I don’t have enough lights to do this myself. See photos of our very patient models Kharis and Alyssa.

I’ve been watching some YouTube videos showing Photoshop tricks and came across a way of enhancing the eyes that works really well. I did my own simplified version. Check out the black and white shot on the right. This is a good candidate for this technique. A larger version is in the photo set.

Google™ Earth and Panoramio – Google™ Earth is a great interactive physical map of the world that you can download for free from google.com. People have added their own photos to the map using panoramio.com so you can see what different areas of the world actually look like.

There are lots of photographs of famous sites, but I really like looking at the out of the way places in the world that few people get to visit. Since I like to look at the photographs so much I have added my own for some of the places I have visited for other people to see. My current project is to add photos of Appleton to Google™ Earth so other people can see what our city looks like. Check out my pictures on panoramio.com here. My name on panoramio.com is maxpixel.