Newest Photos

These are the newest photos of the kids. This is where new stuff sits until I get around to properly categorizing it and putting it on the proper pages.

Click the thumbnail to see the full-size photo.

Catching up on some Photos. The kids had their photo taken at a studio as a Christmas gift to their Grandmothers. I had forgotten to put those shots up on the site, and when I remembered to, I also remembered that I had forgotten to put up their school photos. So here, they are. Two new photos each of Andrew and Holly, and there is also a bonus photo of them with their cousin Whitney, which was also a grandmother gift. Hold your mouse pointer over an image for a description. Click it for a larger version.

Holly's Third Grade School Photo (2003).jpg (94378 bytes) Andrew's Sixth Grade School Photo (2003).jpg (73174 bytes) Andrew, Holly, Whitney Christmas Studio Photo - 2003.jpg (82793 bytes) Andrew Studio Christmas 2003.jpg (108926 bytes)  Holly Studio Christmas 2003.jpg (76963 bytes)  
 

Andrew and Holly - Fall 2002.jpg (115969 bytes)

Fall, 2002 Studio Photo

Holly's Second Grade School Photo (2002).jpg (67589 bytes)

Holly's Second Grade School Photo (2002)

Andrew's Fifth Grade School Photo (2002).jpg (44607 bytes)

Andrew's Fifth Grade School Photo (2002)

 

2002 Fall Photo Practice Session. Michelle dressed the kids in their "Fall 2002 Studio Photo" clothes and took some practice shots. After seeing how good a couple of these are, I'm wondering if we even need to go to the studio. Sure we need to hide the electric cords or maybe find another spot altogether, but I really like these photos!
Andrew - Full Body Shot.jpg (72761 bytes) Andrew and Holly - Closer up.jpg (74880 bytes) Andrew and Holly - Full Body Shot.jpg (85036 bytes) Holly - Full Body Shot.jpg (85479 bytes)

 

Holly's First Grade School Photo (2001).jpg (96133 bytes)

Holly's First Grade School Photo (2001)

 Andrew's Fourth Grade School Photo (2001).jpg (75010 bytes)

Andrew's 4th Grade School Photo (2001)

 Armstrong Kids Halloween 2001.jpg (100981 bytes)

Hallowe'en 2001. In case it's not obvious, Holly is a "Hot Rock Star" and Andrew is an exposed-brain alien. (I wish you could see his brain better.)

 Armstrong Kids Portrait 2001.jpg (112778 bytes)

Random studio shot of the kids.

 

Newer still - Testing new Canon Powershot G2:

Andrew's-Self-Portrait_800x600.jpg (56837 bytes)

Andrew monkeying around with the camera's remote control. This is resized to 800x600 from a photo taken at the "Medium 1" resolution, which is 1600x1200. Click here to see the higher resolution version.

 Holly by the Christmas Tree.jpg (108508 bytes)

Slightly out of focus, but if a photo of Holly doesn't appear here, I'll be in big trouble.

 Holly's-dresser-top.jpg (254578 bytes)

This was taken during a 360° sweep of Holly's room done to make a Quicktime VR file. Experience "Virtual Reality" by clicking the strip below.

 Holly's photo of Andrew by the 2001 Christmas tree_800x600.jpg (124003 bytes)

Holly just had to have a turn trying out the new camera. Her very first try was a surprisingly well framed shot of Andrew by the Christmas tree. This is resized to 800x600 from a photo taken at the "Medium 1" resolution, which is 1600x1200. Click here to see the higher resolution version.

 

Lit up Christmas tree in the dark.jpg (554748 bytes)

Demo of highest resolution:  2272x1704

  

Andrew-fresh-out-of-the-shower.jpg (213427 bytes)

Another 2272x1704 shot. Not much color, but super-sharp.

  

Quicktime VR Tour of Holly's Room.

After clicking on this strip, click and drag your mouse on the picture to scroll up, down, and around, to see the top half of Holly's room.

(You'll need Apple's Quicktime if you don't already have it.)

  

Blurry-Christmas-Tree.jpg (20497 bytes)

My first "artistic" photo. Cropped and resized from a manual-focus experiment.
Long-exposure experiments. Proof-of-concept for my lighted-boomerang-flying-in-the-dark dream photo. One reason I chose this camera is because of its flexibility with manual exposure settings.  

Indiglo-Bruc.jpg (32578 bytes)

Tried to write my name (backwards yet!) with an Indiglo watch, but wasn't fast enough.

  

Remote Control's Infrared LED.jpg (18899 bytes)

Twirling around a remote control. The camera is picking up the flashing infra-red LED.

  

Remote Control's 2 LEDs.jpg (27208 bytes)

Twirling around another remote control. This one has a normal red LED which I was pointing at the camera. The fainter tracer is from an infra-red LED also on the remote.

 

Here are a couple of reviews of the camera if you are interested in more info:

bulletDCRP Review
bulletSteve's Digicams Review

 

Random Photos:

Michelle and Bruce by the Christmas Tree (Taken by Holly).jpg (175501 bytes) Armstrong Family at Christmas Tree 2 2001.jpg (186596 bytes) Holly's 7th Birthday Cake 2001.jpg (201750 bytes)  
  Armstrong Family at Christmas Tree 2001.jpg (204319 bytes)   Jackson Kowal.jpg (67978 bytes)

New Digital Experiments:

Andrew and bird.jpg (28727 bytes)

First still-shot bluescreen experiment.

 Andrew at Fake Yellowstone.jpg (134456 bytes)

Another one.

These aren't meant to look real. We're just experimenting, you know?

  

Proof-of-concept for bluescreen compositing with video. Click for low-res clip or get this smaller, High-res clip with DIVX compression. They are both just 14 seconds long.

You may need the DIVX software which you can grab here.

Note that these are just a test. We'll get some better stuff put together over the Christmas break.

 TrickShot-6-kids_640.jpg (135559 bytes)

Two sets of Triplets!

(I will have one of these that looks real before I'm done.)

 Anaglyph 3D Dining Room Red-Blue.jpg (160332 bytes)Anaglyph 3D Dining Room Red-Green.jpg (204456 bytes)

Choose the left image if you have Red/Blue 3D glasses and the right image if yours are the Red/Green type.

 

Other recently found stuff:

Self-Portrait in a bluebonnet patch near dark (1987).jpg (83808 bytes)

(the lost self-portrait)