Now that we’ve settled in one place for more than a year, my gal and I are looking forward to getting a dog. Now that cooler weather has arrived, we’re also looking forward to getting out hiking more. Looking for a nearby Sunday morning hike, I found the NOVA Hiking Club for Dog Lovers on Meetup.com, which is the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of dogs and hiking in Northern VA. Continue reading
My gal and I often each take pictures of the same event, and despite the fact that my camera is way bigger than hers, she often gets a number of great shots that I missed. Or was in. Whichever.
Since photography is largely about storytelling for me, which is another way of saying I’ll always be a journalist at heart, mixing our sets together is often useful to complete the narrative. Getting pictures in order would be a snap if our camera’s time/date settings were synched, but that’s something we often think of after the fact. Continue reading
This evening I volunteered to do event photography for Critical Exposure, a DC based non-profit that puts cameras in the hands of schoolkids to they can tell their stories. I had a great time — the people were every bit as interesting as the photographs up for bid, many of which were by Pulitzer prize wining photographers and the like. Click on the mosaic to see the Flickr set. – Ernest Continue reading
In 2009 I was working on a number of Drupal, Joomla!, and WordPress sites simultaneously, when Webreference.com asked me if I wanted to write a CMS column for them. I always forget how much work columns are, trying to find something new to talk about each month, and after five columns I decided that actually building websites was a whole lot easier than writing about it.
The columns are still up on the site though, and though time has passed, I found them still to be pretty much dead on.
Who is RARE Conservation?
RARE Conservation is a conservation group that works from the local level up rather than from the national or enterprise level down. Though Rare’s effort is directed at community-based change, rather than attempting to work directly with communities, Rare offers local individuals educational opportunities and supports their efforts to increase local awareness and engagement with ecological issues through “Pride Campaigns,” which use applied social science solutions to address conservation issues. Continue reading