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I took this photo yesterday while driving Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park.  This huge drift is at about 11,ooo feet.

Sunset over the lake at Lost Antler Ranch.

It’s true, just ask the groom-to-be. There is a certain inexplicable satisfaction that occurs when you can step outside and bond with nature first thing in the morning.

The morning view from the Meadow House at Lost Antler Ranch.

These new cameras have really amazing low light performance. This shot was hand-held, no tripod required. Nikon d700, ISO6400, 1/30, f/2.8, 14mm.

OK this post has almost nothing to do with my usual photography topics. But many portrait photographers use portable speakers and projectors for presenting images to their clients. And Logitech has been very bad at making these speakers compatible with the latest software releases.  After an hour of searching and hacking, I’ve come up with a solution, and thought that I would post it so as to be helpful to others. This post will also work for getting other Logitech products such as keyboards working with Snow Leopard, until Logitech can bother to get around to supporting their devices on the latest OS releases.

Step 1:  Download the Logitech Control Center: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/494/3129&cl=us,en I needed to do this step order to get the Macbook Pro to ‘see’ the speakers.  This step is possibly also helpful in getting the speakers to work on older OS-X versions such as 10.5.x Leopard.

Step 2:  Snow Leopard won’t install the software, since it isn’t signed to support 10.6.x.  So rather than directly opening the Logitech Control Center Installer, you first need to locate the downloaded file in the Finder, then right click, and select ‘Show Package Contents’. Navigate to Contents>Resources and double-click Logitech Control Center.mpkg.  This will install the software.

Step 3:  Go to System Preferences>Hardware>Sound>Output.  Hopefully you see the Logitech USB Speaker listed as a possible output device.

That’s it!

Last Friday my favorite band Meniskus rocked out a free show at the Boulder Draft House.  For more images from the night check out the Facebook Gallery.

If you have your wedding at the Pastures of Plenty in North Boulder County, you just might have a bonfire. And if you do, John Howlett from Big Bang Catering will be there to get it started for you. His preferred tool is a propane weed burner. By the look on his face, I think he may have burned ants with a magnifying glass when he was a kid as well.

Yesterday I posted a photo from 09-09-09. Part of the composition of the photo is the reflection of the parking lot behind me on my glossy laptop screen.  I noticed an orange and white blob in the blurred out part of the image, but didn’t think much of it initially.  At second glance, I thought that it was a person walking behind me in the lot, and thought it funny that someone was captured in the shot.  But at a third look, it doesn’t look like a person either.  There is way too much orange to be someone’s head. It doesn’t really look like lens flare from the sun either, even though there is some orange in the tree area of the image directly above it.  What is it?!  It appears to be in between the rows of cars.

Here is a closer view.

What were you doing on September 9th, 2009 at 9:09 and 9 seconds? I was kneeling in the bank parking lot behind my office taking a picture of my laptop. Got to get the security tape on that one.  Concept credit goes to Steve Sr.

This is a random wedding outtake that deserves a blog post of it’s own.  This is a picture that Chad took, of a guest looking at a picture of me taking a picture of her taking a picture, with Chad taking a picture of something else in the background. There is a videographer shooting moving pictures in there to boot.  Radtastic.

Atmosphere in Boulder hosted a fashion show a little while back.  I was there.  I took some photos.  It was awesome.  You can see more pictures on the Facebook Gallery Page.

I was invited by my friends from Something Underground to hang out backstage and shoot some photos for Peace and Love on the Rocks. There were a bajilliion musicians there rotating in and out, covering favorite songs from the famous music festival of old. It like rocked and stuff.  You can see more photos from the event at the Facebook Gallery HERE.