Greece is terribly post apocalyptic

So if you pay any attention to the news, you'll know that youth riots have crippled Greece over the past week. Essentially it boils down to a bad economy and a frustrated populous, topped off by the murder of a teenager at the hands of the police and you have some really awful riots.

Here's a photo gallery that made the top page of Digg today.

2008 Greek Riots

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Some Turkey Day Pictures

Amy and I before dinner.


This is the country club where we had dinner yesterday.

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Bacon Cupcakes are Glorious

There's nothing better than the satisfaction of a day well spent, and that's why I ate a cupcake with bacon on it. To wallow in one's own crapulence is entirely necessary, if only once in a while.

And here's a picture of a duck I took today.



Some abstract shots, too:





I'm thinking of having another movie marathon tomorrow. There's so much to watch on the Roku, it just might be necessary.

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Re-Building My Photography Portfolio

...has been a real pain in the ass.

I used to have a fairly good portfolio going. Some would say it was even kick ass. Good examples of portraiture, uses of artificial and natural lighting and some action photography. I took many of the pictures when I was freelancing as a production photographer during my freshman year, as well as from that summer photographing bands in Tampa.

Only about 20 stills, but most are now lost and gone forever thanks to a fried power book about a year ago. I think I still have a paper copy of it at my mom's somewhere, but even getting scans of those wouldn't be anything compared to having the .RAW files. So this pretty much sucks. It really really sucks.

So now I'm going through the process of reconstructing my portfolio. I've culled through the few gigs of pictures I did manage to backup, but only came up with a few pictures I still like. Which means that I need to shoot more, but its a bit hard with my work schedule.

There's a link in my sidebar now, and here's the gallery below.

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Pet Photography

...is incredibly self indulgent. But here it is anyway! I really need to start using my camera more, because I really take for granted that I have such a nice piece of equipment. Coviello just got a D700, which is fucking ridiculous, and I'm psyched to see some of the pictures he's been taking on set over the past 2 weeks. And I think I've successfully talked him into getting the D90 too, because of the digital video feature, which is pretty rad. I wish the D70 could get that with a firmware update or something, but c'est la vie.

So here's my lame pet photography:



And here's another one from the shoot on friday, up flagstaff, in the rain.



Only a few more days before we wrap, and then my life can go back to normal for a few weeks. More pictures of Tom to come!

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