Eric Mesa | June 20, 2013
It’s easy to lust after photo opportunities elsewhere as I did in a recent post. But when you find that happening, just remember there’s a whole world in your backyard. If you live in an urban neighborhood like the protagonist of Pecker, you can focus on portraits and street photography – candid or otherwise. But [...]
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Tags: birds, macro, plants
Eric Mesa | June 13, 2013
Unsurprisingly, Scarlett is once again the subject of the Photojojo. Also captured, a visit by the in-laws. I think the most interesting thing is that I find her way cuter as she looks now vs a year ago. But back then I found her way cute. Scientists say it peaks at age 4. I guess [...]
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Tags: photojojo, Scarlett
Eric Mesa | June 6, 2013
I have mentioned many times before how much I was into photography back before digital existed. Despite film and developing costs subsuming all my allowance money, I still took tons of photos. Three years ago, I decided to check out the film photography renaissance. In April I got my first batch of film and a [...]
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Tags: 120mm, 35mm, film, Medium Format
Eric Mesa | May 30, 2013
It’s once again time for my biweekly Photojojo post. For those of you who haven’t been following my blog for a long time, Photojojo is a digital time capsule service. Every two weeks they send me an email that has my most interesting photos posted to flickr from one year ago. More Scarlett photos. The [...]
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Eric Mesa | May 23, 2013
This photo is a great example of the magic moments you can capture when you’re not focused on getting kids to say “cheese”. Just hang back and go to the most telephoto you can and you’ll capture some magical moments.
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Tags: Tony
Eric Mesa | May 16, 2013
One of the biggest trends on flickr is to start a 365 Project. This usually means taking one self-portrait a day for an entire year. This project is often misunderstood by those outside of flickr, especially since they’re used to the selfie-culture of MySpace and Facebook. It’s not a vanity project. A 365 Project is [...]
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Tags: 365 project, flickr, Self-Portrait
Eric Mesa | May 9, 2013
It’s once again time for my biweekly Photojojo post. For those of you who haven’t been following my blog for a long time, Photojojo is a digital time capsule service. Every two weeks they send me an email that has my most interesting photos posted to flickr from one year ago. Scarlett’s only 2-2.5 months [...]
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Eric Mesa | May 2, 2013
Every phase of life the children in your life go through presents different sets of challenges. For example, take a look at this photo of Scarlett’s first Easter: She couldn’t sit up and she didn’t have the slightest clue of what was happening. We could try to get her to look at her mom, but [...]
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Tags: photo tips, toddlers
Eric Mesa | April 15, 2013
It’s once again time for my biweekly Photojojo post. For those of you who haven’t been following my blog for a long time, Photojojo is a digital time capsule service. Every two weeks they send me an email that has my most interesting photos posted to flickr from one year ago. I took a long [...]
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Tags: Easter, photojojo, Scarlett
Eric Mesa | April 11, 2013
It’s once again time for my biweekly Photojojo post. For those of you who haven’t been following my blog for a long time, Photojojo is a digital time capsule service. Every two weeks they send me an email that has my most interesting photos posted to flickr from one year ago. The biggest takeaway which [...]
Category: KDE, Photography |
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Tags: KDE, KDE 4, KDE activities, photojojo, Scarlett
Eric Mesa | April 2, 2013
The wedding day went the way these things always go. If you’re not involved you’re spending most of the day waiting around until it’s time to get your nice clothes on and go to enjoy the wedding. I went to get In-N-Out Burger for lunch and learned that Scarlett really, really likes french fries. There [...]
Category: Me, Photography, Travelogue |
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Tags: Calfornia, Daniel and Marlene's Wedding, Livermore, Wedding
Eric Mesa | April 2, 2013
Today’s post makes the series name somewhat inaccurate, hence the subtitle. We awoke and, having spent the week debating the best course of action, decided it made the most sense for us to all go to the airport to pick up the rental car since it cost the same to get out there whether it [...]
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Tags: California, Livermore
Eric Mesa | April 1, 2013
After confirming with Danielle that her family didn’t want breakfast, I went out for breakfast and saw the above mustachioed car. They’re for a service called Lyft that uses regular people as cab drivers. More about that here. The first time I learned about the way taxis are regulated was when I was at Cornell. [...]
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Tags: Golden Gate Bridge, Lyft, Pho, Pho 2000, San Francisco, The Mission, Union Square
Eric Mesa | March 29, 2013
We awoke wondering what shape Scarlett would be in. We were instructed to only give her Pedialyte or ginger ale. Scarlett, being her usual picky self, was having none of it. So we decided to try milk. She was OK. The vomiting was over. My in-laws were finally in town and staying at the same [...]
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Tags: Cable Car, California, San Francisco
Eric Mesa | March 28, 2013
When traveling through time zones the first few days are often spent on the home city’s timezone. I ended up spending the entire trip on EST thanks to Scarlett. And that is fine because it made going back to work easy. As I mentioned yesterday, there were a bunch of diners around our hotel. We [...]
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Tags: California, Fisherman's Wharf, Lombard Street, Lori's Diner, San Francisco, Sea Lions