The Lancaster Lens photography exhibit is going on right now at the Lancaster Museum of Art. I'm one of the featured artists there showing 6 of my toy images.

It's an incredible opportunity for me, and I still can't quite believe I have working showing in a museum, so stop by and support photography and the arts in Lancaster, PA.

This First Friday, I have 2 places to be at once, so instead I'm splitting my night:

• 5pm–8pm: I'll be showing some fine-art work, framed and ready to buy at Mulberry Art Studios with the rest of the Lancaster Camera Club.
• 8pm–whenever:I expect to head up to Smith LaVia (329 N Queen St) to shoot holiday images or whatever comes around and just hang out with friends.

Hopefully, I'll see everyone at Mulberry and/or at Smith LaVia. Lancaster City is a great place, and there's lots to see every First Friday.

I've been happily kicking along in Gnome 2.x-whatever on my Debian and Ubuntu machines for quite sometime. When Ubuntu tried to push me over into Unity back in April, I gave it half a day, then reverted back to Gnome 2 for familiarity and more workspaces.

Well, it's October now, and Ubuntu made the push again, but this time, it also pushed Gnome up to 3.2, which is drastically different as well. With no solace in Gnome, I've had to just sort of try to figure out the Unity-way with no controls and their "it's for your own good" mentality. (It feels a lot like that other OS that I wiped off a Mac Book Pro.)

Smith LaVia studio will have their grand opening on October's First Friday in Lancaster! I'm one of the resident photographers, so I'll be showing some work and hanging out for the night along with the 4 other photographers (and a painter). It's sure to be a good time, so stop by and say "Hello".

As the local Peter Parker, I got to photograph the recent meeting of the household superheroes.

Camille and John will be getting married next year. As they've only been engaged less than a month, they've not set a date yet.

Groovy can be used pretty easily to spin up some simple web pages in almost the same way one would hack out some PHP or JSP without going to the trouble to do an all-out Grails project.

The Groovy Servlet allows you to pack up the groovy-all-*.jar, a simple web.xml, and whatever *.groovy scripts you want and deploy it right into Tomcat as a plain WAR file. The Groovy Servlet page

One rainy Sunday in May, Dustin, his family, and I hurried down to Lock 12 in York County to get some last-minute senior portraits even as it rained. The rain stopped when we got there, and the overcast skies treated us well for a two-hour portrait session around the lock and the creek trail above the lock.

Briana's interested in studying photography, so she volunteered to hold the lights most the time, and I even held the lights for her for a shot or two — you can see one of her shots at the end of the whole gallery. More...

I made the tiniest USB drive for my car using the elago microSD card reader and a 16G microSD card—it's more of USB nub than a stick, but it's big enough to hold my entire music collection I've collected over the years. The USB port on the new Fiesta is in the middle console out in the open, so I wanted the smallest device for it, so it wouldn't be damaged.

I like to enjoy many events with a camera in hand. When my brother and new sister-in-law, Matt and Jenn, asked me to photograph their wedding in the summer, I was very happy to do my part.