Leahy's Picture of the Day

Gymnastics Meet

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:03:00 +0000

Auburn Gymnastics Center

Wicket and Blake

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:59:00 +0000

These guys were hanging out in my room while I was working on the computer.

Backyard

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:46:00 +0000

I took Wicket outside before work and took a few shots.

Master Shon's In-House Tournament

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:20:00 +0000

Marcus went to his second TKD tournament, a small one in Auburn. He did Forms (Poomse), Board Breaking, and Sparring. He got medals in all and won his grouping in sparring. He was out fast, kicking like crazy and was pretty dominant. He got some points scored on him late in round one, in his first match because he was so tired he could hardly stand. That was from coming out so hard and fast! He did really well and got a big confidence boost. The second picture is his team mate, Simon. He is one of the better kids at TKDC, he lost his match here, but this pic shows a definite point scored, that wasn't counted. This would have tied the match at the end. Fun to watch the higher belts, these guys are a couple years ahead of Marcus and Blake.

Block Breaking

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:05:00 +0000

This was at Master Shon's TKD In-House Tournament over the weekend. Pretty impressive.

Tae Kwon Do Belt Testing

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:51:00 +0000

The boys were testing for Green to Green Stripe, and Green Stripe to Blue. They did very well!

Lumix DMC-LX3 + Speedlight SB-800 + PocketWizards

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:26:00 +0000

I've been experimenting with my SB800 flash and my little Lumix DMC-LX3. A thing I'm very interesting in is that it will sync up to 1/2000 sec shutter speed. (My D300 tops out at 1/250 sec).

New Slippers!

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:27:00 +0000

Blake's birthday today. New slippers from Grandpa Bill and Grandma Judy.

Gymnastics Meet

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:25:00 +0000

These are from Blake's first gymnastics competition at Auburn Gymnastics Center.

Archery for Blake's Birthday

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:40:00 +0000

We went to the Skookum archery range in Puyallup for Blake's birthday. It was fun!

Blake TKD Sparring

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:47:00 +0000

Blake was sparring Simon.

Blake @Piano

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:31:00 +0000

Blake's piano class with Angela Wentz.

A Man and His Dog

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:45:00 +0000

John working in his shop with his dog. He's putting a new crankset on my bike! I'm looking busy taking pictures! Experimenting with SB 800 triggered by pocket wizards, shooting my Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3. Very cool.

Boys on Computers

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:42:00 +0000

The guys were playing some game on the computer. I was testing firing my Speedlite remotely.

Small World

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:39:00 +0000

A bit less than 20 years ago, I coached track at Tyee High School...this woman was one of my runners - Yvonne!

Shot by Marcus

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:37:00 +0000

This was taken by my son Marcus, nice one!

Summit Freeride Park - Dirt Day

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:18:00 +0000

This was a freeride jump fest in Black Diamond. Lot's of people have put in a lot of shovel time to make this park happen. Hat's off to them! It was fun to watch. Marcus came a long and did some shooting too.

Painting Effect in Photoshop

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:13:00 +0000

Just having some fun with a picture of my sweetie!

Belated Christmas

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:09:00 +0000

We had a belated Christmas with my parents. They came here this time. We played games, it was a good time.

Building

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:08:00 +0000

Marcus latest creation.

Sunset Over South Prairie

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:29:00 +0000

Was taking Blake home from his piano lesson when I noticed this. Stopped and got my camera, then drove to a close, good spot. Didn't have time to find a better spot. The color is pretty accurate to what it really was. I just did a levels adjustment of 4 levels brighter on highlights and 4 levels darker on shadows. That really just made it look more like it did in real life.

Photoshop & Graphic Design

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:50:00 +0000

It's been a while since I've done a significant amount of "graphic design" to a photo. It used to be all I did, all day, all the time. Anyway, I like the way this one turned out. There are about 15 years of designer tricks hidden in this...about a million layers and tons of hand work. No filters, no fonts, no downloaded actions, or push button effects. Oh, this is from Brittany's make-up session. We got snowed out the first time!

Hannah and Blake

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:26:00 +0000

Hannah was really good with Blake, they played ds and piano!

Present Time

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:13:00 +0000

Butch and Kathy liked the photo book Karen made for them, and Cherith got me some Porter, the last of the batch from Redhook. They are no longer making it.

Marcus and Blake at Tom & Becky's

noreply@blogger.com (Adam) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:05:00 +0000

Marcus and Blake passing the time at the Christmas get-together at Tom and Becky's. No other kids.