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September 7, 2011 8 Comments

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When I promise pointless photos, I deliver

June 8, 2011 10 Comments

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When I promise pointless photos, I deliver
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A middle-aged dude doing tequila shooters isn’t the only thing we’ve photographed with…

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Wildlife photography

May 31, 2011 13 Comments

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As pointed out in many of the customer reviews about this lens, it is excellent for taking long-rage photographs of animals in their natural habitat. For example, here we see…

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The only thing that feels more alien to me than saying “I’m coaching my son’s baseball team” is saying “I miss coaching my son’s baseball team.”

April 4, 2011 12 Comments

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Zan has started his fourth season of organized baseball, which also is his first season of organized baseball here in Pennsylvania … and, despite being sired by a guy who…

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Candles (The preceding title is Exhibit A in the case of The Day Job That Sucked The Creativity Out of Me.)

March 22, 2011 15 Comments

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Candles (The preceding title is Exhibit A in the case of The Day Job That Sucked The Creativity Out of Me.)
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This is the kind of thing my mother-in-law and father-in-law had for years been looking forward to doing with us if and when we ever decided to move to Pennsylvania. Needless to say…

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Here’s that fish I mentioned

February 15, 2011 11 Comments

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Remember that fish tank I told you about last fall? Well, amazingly…

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That trip to Mexico I keep meaning to tell you about, which almost didn’t happen because of my unrivaled ability to be a complete and utter moron

February 7, 2011 33 Comments

About two hours into our flight from Philadelphia to Cancun, I discovered that I had committed The Biggest Fuck-Up of All Time … like, to the extent that I knew it would be best for my marriage if I just went ahead and threw myself out of the aircraft. Which was a shame, really … because everything had been going so well.

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I would club fluffy white baby seals to death right now if doing so would allow me to be on this beach instead of here in ice-covered Pennsylvania

February 2, 2011 11 Comments

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Remember the trip to Mexico we took last April? The one I keep…

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