My 2012 in Pictures

In January I took my swanky new lens out and about in Methuen to see what it could do.  These trips usually focus on the Spicket River, but this time I went to the Merrimack.
Reflections in the River

As usual, February focused on the RPM Challenge. This year my saxophone came out of retirement.
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In March I finally managed to get a few pictures of the night sky that only mostly sucked, as opposed to the normal total suck. This is the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter, all at once.
Moon Venus Jupiter

April brought us back to San Diego and I swear, each time we go there it gets harder and harder to come home.
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In May we brought the kids to Fenway Park. Dustin Pedroia and the Red Sox won the game, but went on to their worst season in 100,000 years.
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June was very quiet, photography wise, but we did get another piano recital in the wonderful Nevins Library in Methuen.
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In July we spent a week on Long Lake in Maine. I managed to accidentally take a few pictures that didn’t suck.
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In August we spent a day wandering around Portsmouth, NH including Strawbery Banke.
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In September we took the kids to see Rush. Now they know what I’ve been talking about all this time.
Rush on the opening night of the Clockwork Angels tour

In October we took the kids to Washington, DC and tried our best to see everything in the short time we were there.
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In November I didn’t post a single picture taken with my D90. I did, however, learn that this existed and it made me feel a little better about the human race in general.
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In December my wife and I ran off together to the mountains for a few days. It was wonderful to get away.
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And there you have it. A brief synopsis of my 2012, in pictures. I could have posted hundreds of pictures. Maybe I will later on.

Moon Over the Gas Station

iPhone Astrophotography:  The Moon Over the Gas Station.

Moon Over the Gas Station

We had a snow storm Saturday night into Sunday.  I cleaned off the cars and the driveway on Sunday morning, but then stayed home for the rest of the day.  When I took the kids to their father’s before work today I realized that I was a touch low on gas.  I could probably get to work, but probably couldn’t get there and back without a fill up.

After dropping the kids off I went to a gas station near their dad’s house.  I hit the button next to the driver’s seat to open up the gas tank and went outside… and the gas tank didn’t open.  Ummm.  That’s never happened before.  I tried again.  Nothing.  I tried prying it open with the only tool I had on me, a pen cap.  Nothing.  Eventually, after about five minutes of digging and prying with the pen cap, and hitting the button over and over again, it opened and I could fill up.  I took a picture of the moon to memorialize the occasion.

Happy New Year.

Dueling iPads

My beloved is locked in a dueling iPads game of Monopoly against her daughter. They are both listening to music at the same time so when they talk about the game they are both yelling.
 

I couldn’t love my family more.

Posterous Broke WordPress

Yesterday I posted two little Hipstamatic pictures via one email to my Posterous account.  At the time I noticed that the format of the post to WordPress was a little screwy.  Today I noticed that my sidebar was posting at the bottom of the page.  I guessed that the two pic post was the culprit and deleted it.  The sidebar returned to the side.  Strange indeed.

I don’t want to have to worry about crap like this.  I want Posterous and WordPress to play nicely and I want everything to continue to work the way it did when I set all of this garbage up a couple of weeks ago.

Anyway, I am in quite the Hipstamood right now so here are those two pictures again.  This time hosted by Flickr.

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Flickr comes to the rescue once again. Gotta love Flickr.