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Adobe Lightroom 1/2 off at Amazon

marc — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:14:57 +0000

Amazon has Adobe lightroom half off today. Not sure how long it will last. Awesome deal. I used Lighroom almost exclusively for my image editing. If you’d like to see some of my work, check out my sets on Flickr.

Ice – Homestead, Midway, UT

marc — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:11:25 +0000

Ice – Homestead, Midway, UT, originally uploaded by Mecworks. From the ice castle at the Homestead in Midway, UT – 2004.

Toledo, Spain

marc — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:01:05 +0000

Toledo, Spain, originally uploaded by Mecworks. An old street I found while in Toledo, Spain.

Raw Chocolate Macaroons

marc — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:05:35 +0000

My raw chocolate macaroons are healthy and made with all natural ingrediants and with no refined carbohydrates. They’re easy to make and require no baking or dehydrating. Many recipies I’ve found call for dehydrated coconut. The reason for that is that moist coconut is usually sweetened with refined sugars and kept “moist” by adding propylene [...]

Raw Vanilla Macaroons

marc — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:54:37 +0000

My raw vanilla macaroons are healthy and made with all natural ingrediants and with no refined carbohydrates. They’re easy to make and require no baking or dehydrating. Many recipies I’ve found call for dehydrated coconut. The reason for that is that moist coconut is usually sweetened with refined sugars and kept “moist” by adding propylene [...]

Victoria’s Secret

marc — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:07:48 +0000

Victoria’s Secret, originally uploaded by Mecworks. The Provo River Bottoms shopping center is under construction right now while new cobble stone roads are put in place and what was once a through fair for cars will be a pedestrian only shopping area. I’m really happy about this change. It will be a much more inviting [...]

Utah Sunsets

marc — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:47:46 +0000

I made two photographs on my way back from Salt Lake City last night. I was leaving a friend’s house after dropping off some items for the SLLUG meeting tomorrow night. While descending the avenues, I passed by Memory Grove near 9th Avenue where I stopped for an amazing sunset. Here are several. The first [...]

Modeling work with Michelle

marc — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:08:26 +0000

Michelle 2, originally uploaded by Mecworks. Spent an evening in downtown Provo with Michelle and some other models getting some great shots in before sunset last month. A mix of blue skies and overcast made for an interesting day with a variety of shooting conditions. Thanks to Michelle Steph and the others who made the [...]

Stephanie: B&W high-grain stylized process

marc — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:49:38 +0000

Stephanie, originally uploaded by Mecworks. My first use of the new Adobe Lightroom 3 film-grain simulation. I really like the texture and feel it gives the photo. It adds depth and character to black and white images. In the future, I’ll be taking a look at using it with cross-processed images to enhance the faded [...]

Why you should periodically review your photography archives

marc — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:45:44 +0000

Sometimes you just can’t believe what you just did…and neither can anyone else. Revisiting your photography archives, weeks, months or even years later will help you find great shots overlooked in the initial review. A lesson we often learn in life the hard way is that contentment from everyday objects is fairly ephemeral. Things [...]

Chalking

marc — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:29:44 +0000

So, we’re all over at my parents for family dinner this past Sunday night. Most of the family that lives in Utah is there with the exception of my brother Spencer who is home with a stomach flu. We’re barbecuing hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken along with all together way too much other good food [...]

Cranberry Salsa w/Cream Cheese

marc — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:33:10 +0000

Enlarge image A friend brought this dish with her to a party a week ago and I liked it so much that I asked for the recipe. I changed it just slightly and made it with non-sugar sweeteners. This makes an amazingly good Thanksgiving or Christmas appetizer or party tray. Cranberry Salsa with Cream Cheese [...]

1 + 1 = 4?

marc — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:48:04 +0000

So, one of my friends and co-workers Eric, just came to my office and asked if I had a couple AA batteries that he could borrow. I searched and looked and finally found two in a Maglite flashlight I had in my backpack. I held the flashlight up and said “here’s a couple” and he [...]

I want better support for digitizer pads on Linux!

marc — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:45:32 +0000

I don’t want to have to go through some winding, confusing process of reading HOWTOs, hand editing xorg.conf files, restarting X over and over again just to get decent support for my wacom digitizer pad. Especially when the experience on windows and mac is completely painless.

A labyrinth like thought process

marc — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:29:13 +0000

Late one night this week… Googleearth gallery > 2007 Tour de France route > Noticed amazing Carcassonne which the route passed by > Jump to Wikipedia to learn about Carcassonne > A thought leads to Labyrinth the book > Which makes me think of the (unrelated) Labyrinth movie > Learn that the fancy manipulation of [...]