It looks like mankind has not given up on building a tower that reaches to “heaven”. CNN has an interesting story. ‘Space elevator’ would take humans into orbit http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/10/02/space.elevator/index.html
Posted on October 3rd, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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Monday, I went with a group of about 40 from our church and hiked up to Heather Lake. As usual I brought my camera along and took the HDR photo below. This one was taken with 3 exposures 1.5 stops apart. I find the results of HDR beautiful, but they are so much work!
Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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I traveled up to Canada today with my bro and a friend to take in the Abbotsford airshow. Here are some snaps I took. If you’d like to see the whole album, go HERE. Search and Rescue “Bombing” the airstrip. World’s Shortest Runway 9 G’s on that turn Vertical flight Just under Mach 1 50 [...]
Posted on August 10th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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I love photography, though I don’t dedicate much time to it anymore. There are a handful of photography RSS feeds that I subscribe to. Wikipedia’s Picture of the Day happens to be one of them. Today’s POTD is an amazing classic. My favorite aspect of this photo is the fact that in spite of its [...]
Posted on August 5th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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I read this today: “We are all just plagiarists of a real artist, and her name is Mother Nature”. It needs modification, I think: “We are all just plagiarists of a real artist, and His Name is God”.
Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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Inspired by others who have taken some amazing HDR or High Dynamic Range Imaging photographs, I’ve decided to jump in and try my hand at this. Below are some photos I shot this morning. Comments and critical analysis are welcome. Telephone Pole St. Andrew’s Orthodox Church – Arlington, WA St. Andrew’s Orthodox Church – Arlington, [...]
Posted on May 17th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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An encouraging bumper sticker I saw today.
Posted on May 10th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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I found this picture of an older gentleman taken during the 1890′s over on Virginia Tech’s image archive website. The person himself has no meaning to me, however I was just struck with “something” about this photograph. Full length portraiture is not as common nowadays. Our family has a similar looking image of my great-uncle [...]
Posted on May 4th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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I went for a walk today and came across this sign.
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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I figured some shots from 4 years ago down in Colorado would be good to use in testing out the Simple-Viewer photo gallery plugin. svgallery=2004-08-ColoradoVacation
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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