I’ve uploaded a few photos from our trip to Omaha for Christmas. A couple samples below the fold.

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• Current Mood: New
• Currently Listening To: "Heartbreaker", Led Zeppelin

Last weekend Julia and I went up to the North Shore of Lake Superior to celebrate our first anniversary. We stayed at the very lovely Bluefin Bay Resort. Below the jump are some pictures of the trip.

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• Current Mood: Excited
• Currently Listening To: "Pigs (Three Different Ones)", Pink Floyd

I’ve put up new photos from our apple-picking trip to Afton Apple Orchard this past weekend here. Samples below the jump.

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• Current Mood: Morning
• Currently Listening To: "Psychedelic Shack", The Temptations

About a week ago I spent the morning taking photos around the University of Minnesota. I don’t know what it is about the U, but I feel the need to excessively process the photos I take there. Hopefully, they aren’t too overdone. A few samples below the jump.

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• Current Mood: Full

I’ve posted the photos from our Arizona vacation here. Samples below the jump…

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• Current Mood: Tired
• Currently Listening To: "Atomic", Sleeper

A while back I blogged about Geosetter, a tool used for geotagging digital photos. In the past, I’ve used it to manually assign locations to photos I’ve taken. This isn’t much fun, and it is easy to forget where I’ve taken a photo before I get a chance to geotag them. Thanks to Reddit, though, I’ve discovered a much better way to do it automatically by using GPSLogger on my phone. I run it on my phone while I’m taking pictures, then Geosetter can take the .GPS file that GPSLogger exports and automatically tag all of the photos by matching the time it was taken to where you were based on the log file. Neat! I used it for my Twin Cities Pride album, and despite the noisiness inherent in consumer-grade GPS, it worked very well.

• Current Mood: Secure
• Currently Listening To: "Suffragette City", David Bowie

On Sunday, Julia and I went to the Twin Cities Pride Parade, where I took a bunch of pictures. Some samples are below the jump.

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Julia and I walked along the Root River Trail in Lanesboro on Friday, and I of course brought my camera. I took the opportunity to experiment with fill flash for lightening the subject (in this case, Julia) in front of a brightly-lit background. I also had some fun with some effects presets in Lightroom when I was doing the post-processing. Examples under the jump…

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• Current Mood: End of vacation
• Currently Listening To: "Tea For One", Led Zeppelin

I’ve had my photo gallery at SmugMug for a couple of years now. SmugMug is a great site, but a couple of things have made me look for an alternative. First, the price: the pro level is a bit spendy, at $150 a year. For people who make a living at photography, this is a great deal, providing a lot of shopping cart options. For me, though, it’s a bit of overkill. The other issue is that I’ve never really been happy with the search visibility of the site, given its reliance on Flash. Images I put on my blog get indexed by Google Image Search, but images on my SmugMug site have never really been picked up.

Since I already have a website, I figured why not host the photos myself? So that’s exactly what I’ve done. My photos are now here, powered by ZenPhoto. It’s not quite as feature-filled as SmugMug, but it works well enough for what I need. Since I’m hosting it, I can customize everything. It’s also very easy to sync my Lightroom catalog with the albums on the site using the Publishing function of Lightroom 3.

SmugMug is a good site for pros, but I’m hoping that ZenPhoto will work for me for a while.

• Current Mood: Extreme Monday
• Currently Listening To: "Gimme Shelter", The Rolling Stones

I took a few photos on Easter at my brother’s house, they are in my random gallery. Here’s one of his dog Sophia:

• Current Mood: Lazy Sunday
• Currently Listening To: "Alive", Pearl Jam