It's been awhile since I posted here, but in my recent attempts at photographing the hummingbirds that come to our feeder I've come to the conclusion that hummingbirds are EVIL! People must be warned! Below is a post I made to a photography forum I have been frequenting.

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A couple friends of ours from Fargo planned a trip to Vegas last week. Originally, they were going to get married there, but they called off the wedding and just went there for a vacation since their tickets were already paid for. It was also our 2 year wedding anniversary, and since we had gotten married in Vegas ourselves, it seemed like a good idea to meet up with them there. So we booked a room at the Excalibur and took some vacation time.



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I finished up a roll of B&W film this weekend and spent some time developing my first roll of home-developed film. I'm not a stranger to developing B&W as I did it quite a bit in a photography class I took at NDSU, but this is the first roll I developed at home, with my very own setup. At school the chemicals were all pre-mixed, they had a sink with water at just the right temperature, and they had a light-tight closet for loading the negatives into the developing tank.



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Last night I sat down at my computer after work and decided it was time to give the photo gallery on Rogue a makeover. I decided to download the latest Coppermine and installed it on Rogue. Coppermine has some nice batch processing stuff that helped a lot. I created 74 albums to match the 74 album entries I had in the old custom-made gallery. Copied all the old JPGs over to the album directory for Coppermine, then spent a good couple of hours running Coppermine's batch file add feature for each of the 74 albums. I like the results a lot.



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