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Fun with GIMP: Concert Photo Collage

I’ve been toying around with a few image-editing programs. I just downloaded/installed GIMP (aka GNU Image Manipulation Program), which seems to be the closest open-source program you can get to Photoshop. It’s very cool and quite robust. I’m a total novice with this stuff, but I think I managed to put together a decent photo [...]

Food Photo Porn: End of the Summer Food Pics

I still had a few fun food photos left on the camera from the end of the summer, so I thought I’d do one last summer photo round-up for the site. Yum:
Perfect Pastrami from Katz’s Deli

A Crab Boil in NYC?

Heirloom tomatoes w/basil (from Vermont):

Homemade pizza:

Southwestern Veggie Chili:
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Food Fun: Mas Salsa Por Favor

I couldn’t get enough of the fresh salsa we made a few weeks back, so I went for round two. It’s such a simple recipe, but is worlds beyond anything you can buy in a store:

Ingredients:
Ripe tomatoes (I like plum tomatoes the best; they’re usually pretty cheap and don’t have tons of seeds/pulp)
Onion (I prefer [...]

Photo Fun: Food Photo Porn

I am a bit of a foodie, so it’s natural that I’ve recently started taking a lot more photos of good grub. After uploading a few recent food photos from my digital camera, I realized I had a pretty decent archive of food pics already up on my flickr page. So, I compiled all my [...]

Photo Fun: Remembering My Alaskan Sea Kayaking Trek

An old friend recently posted some photos on Facebook from our Camp Echo days that reminded me of all the photos I had but never took the time to scan in as digital prints. Although I “wasted” away a solid Saturday afternoon with the scanner and my flickr page, it was really fun to re-live [...]