Ryan's "Product Placement"

This was not an easy topic. I decided to just take a nice night landscape photo instead.





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Cory's Product Placement

As I spent some time thinking about this topic this week, I realized something: subtle product placement is much easier to do in movies, where you can quickly flash something on the screen and be done with it. With photography, the image is set and you're stuck with people seeing the product all the time. So I decided to not even try subtlety for my shot.

Fred's Product Placement

Yes, that is a bottle of Fred water.

Mike's "Product Placement"

I had a little trouble with this one, because all I could think of was how often I see a Subway sandwich in a TV show.  Chuck, Jimmy Fallon, etc.  How do you photo that?
I ran across this when at Bakers, and only had my iPhone with me.  I figure a twist on that subject would be placing your product in various places with the use of a van.  Like a book or blood mobile.

Next Week : "Not Quite Right"

"Product Placement" is due tomorrow.

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Mike's "Proof"

I have photographic proof that "Big Foot" is alive and well in the Pacific North West.
He also surfs, is made of wood and has a phone number!

Ryan's "Proof"

My lack of a photo two weeks in a row is proof that I am spending too much time doing things other that photography....

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Cory's Proof

I found this laying in a parking garage last week. I think it is proof that just printing something on a piece of plastic doesn't make it true.

Fred's Proof

Someone drove through this farm field.  We know it happened.  It cannot be denied.

Johns Proof

Next week: "Product Placement"

"Proof" is due tomorrow.


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John's Wild

Sooooo I had this idea when I went camping to take the headlamp and make wild designs and luckily I have red, green, and blue colors.  For this specific one my roommate stood in front of the camera in the pitch black obviously and wanted to see if he could make an eight ball.  Not too shabby if you ask me.  I think the things you can do with light in the pitch black is pretty wild. 

Cory's Wild

This was a long weekend for me, so we made a trip down to White Sands National Monument for a couple of days. While there we stopped by the zoo in Alamogordo, where I found this wild beast. Luckily, they had some non-stone animals too.

Mike's "Wild"

This thing is kinda wild, but I don't know what it is.  Since it is along the Elkhorn, River, and owned the the University of Nebraska, I'm guessing its for the study of something "wild".

There is a lot of pluming inside, which I suppose they are trying to protect.  If you take a left off of Q street just East of the Elkhorn river, you can find it if your curious.

Worlds most fancy dear stand, I guess.

Fred's "Wild"

Gotta root for the local team.

Next week: "Proof"

"Wild" is due tomorrow.

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Surly

Not only does my New Years resolution clearly need to be buying bigger pants but I also could use a tan.  Sorry fellas.  All I could think of really when it came to surly. 

Ryan's "Surly"

I was pretty surly all week as I listened to a wheel bearing eat itself in my car. I don't particularly enjoy changing them (the hub needs to be knocked off so the bearing can be pressed out and a new one pressed in), and I knew this one was my fault. I'd changed it a few months ago and didn't have a new axle nut, so I reused the old one with a bit of loctite. Unfortunately I didn't consider that the loctite would lubricate the axle nut, leading to a significantly over torqued axle nut and very over loaded bearing.

This is how I spent the morning:



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Cory's Surly

This is Sophie, one of the girls I share my house with. She's normally a shy kitty, but she gets pretty surly when you wake her up from a nap. I tried to capture some of that here, and you can just see a little bit of surliness in her right eye. Maybe next time I'll need to chase her around the house first.

Incidentally, I sometimes do a Google image search of our topics to see what other people have done, and I was kind of surprised by what this one came out like (hint: it's safe for work).

Mike's "Surly"

Sometimes musicians get a little surly looking when they sing.
I don't know why, its just what it is. 

Fred's "Surly"

Surly Brewing Company is a local favorite.  I'm not a beer drinker, but I hear it's pretty good stuff.  For the shot, I asked to go behind the bar of our favorite local pizza place, Pizza Lucé.   Mmmmmm.... pizza...

Next week: "Wild"

"Surly" is due tomorrow.

Also, Happy Birthday to Mike and Fred!

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David's "Christmas"

Day 4 of Chanukah fell on Christmas Eve this year, when I was out looking for a good holiday photo.

Ryan's "Christmas"

The ghost of Christmas Past.....




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Cory's Christmas

In the middle of the traffic circle near my house (featured here once before) there is a big bronze sculpture of a mountain lion. Somebody dressed it and the little tree next to it up for Christmas this year, giving us some extra festiveness on our drive in and out of town. Maddy was very excited to make sure the kitty was wearing its hat each time we drove past for the last week or two.

Speaking of Gerber baby, she and her younger sister had a good time opening presents.

Mike's "Holidays"

Sandra asked me to take photos of the tree today before she took it down.  A tree that I had earlier in the season dubbed Phyllis.

Every year I'm going to make the jaunt out to Village Point and get a picture of the 8 ft ornament bulbs that lay around there during the holiday, but she sort of made up for it with these giant Santa balls, or as Jimmy Fallon calls them treesticles.

 ->This Link<- might help you understand why I call her Phyllis.  Some of you might not be old enough to get the joke.

Fred's "Christmas"

Simple ornament in a tree.