The Setup I recently purchased three albums from iTunes. After downloading them, syncing them to my iPod, and listening through them I was happy. While driving the next day, I thought I’d shuffle through the playlist I had created with the new tracks. I quickly discovered that all the tracks on one of the albums [...]

Took a couple of hours to walk around downtown Des Moines, IA this weekend along with some other fellow photographers. Unfortunately, I showed up late and had to leave a little early so I did not get to socialize very much. Also, I must have taken off in a different directly than the bulk of [...]

What Is It? Iometer started life as a utility built by Intel to generate and measure i/o loads. It was released by them under the Intel Open Source License. The date this happened isn’t clear from their Web site, but the project was first registered on SourceForge in November 2001. Get the Software You can [...]

Got up early this morning and took some photos during “golden hour” light at Des Moines’ Western Gateway Park. As you can tell, Nomade is my favorite subject. As always, please click the photos or visit the photo set on Flickr to see more from this set.

A selection of my photos from both Des Moines sessions of Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photowalk 2011. As always, please visit either the First Set or the Second Set for more! I’ll lead off with my two submissions. Neither of them won, but that’s not surprising because all of the submissions were excellent! Now for a [...]

Just a couple of belated shots posted here. As always, please visit my Flickr Photostream for more!

Don McLaughlin, one of my contacts on Flickr, encouraged me to attend this event. I was only able to make it to the Friday evening opening ceremonies, but I managed to get some great shots. Next year, I think I’ll try to spend more time at the event. For more information, please visit the White [...]

Here are a few photos from my last trip to the Des Moines Farmers’ Market. As always, there are more photos on my Flickr feed and a slideshow.

Here’s a selection of photos from my visit to the Des Moines Farmers’ Market on July 9th. My wife and I have discovered that it pays to go early — both for shopping and making photos. Later in the day, the crowd gets a bit thick and it gets more difficult to move about and [...]