Great Landings

I spend a lot of time during the week looking for random stuff of interest to put on the website. Stuff like the recent “WWW by the Numbers” video or the cool pictures of Earth and stuff I posted a few weeks go. I do this for a couple of reasons, but mostly it is so there is something to separate the baby updates and make it easier to see that the site has been updated. Well this week I have something that actually involves me!

One of the websites I visit regularly is called Gizmodo. It is sort of a technology site that has articles on geeky stuff about gadgets, computer stuff, and other nerdy things most of y’all don’t care about. One thing they also do is hold a weekly “Photo Challenge“. They present some sort of photography challenge and let people email in their submissions. They then pick a winner and the cycle starts again the following week. I have been watching these challenges for a while and always thought it would be cool to submit something.

Well last weeks challenge was to take a photo using only candlelight. So on Saturday I enlisted the help of my whole photography team (Erin, Buddy, JD, and Molly) and we took a series of photos in search of the perfect shot! I then submitted my picture and waited for the results. Fast forward to today and while I didn’t win, I did get selected as a sort of runner up. Since this isn’t a contest and there are no prizes or anything the site just puts up a few that were in the running, and then makes their pick for the winner. So that is it, our “Lego Indy” photo made the short list out of 133 entries and I could not be happier to just see my little picture highlighted on a big name site. Pretty cool… By the way you can see a bigger version of the picture by just clicking on it, or check out the post on the Gizmodo site for yourself by clicking HERE.

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I might be the only one who is a big enough nerd to care, but I came across a few cool pictures on the internet and I thought I would share. First two below are closeups of some common items everyone has probably held at one point or another. The one on the left is a 1,000x closeup of a vinyl record grove. The bumps in the image is dust on the record. The picture on the right then is a 20,000x close up of what a CD looks like. Pretty cool…

Since I am showing my inner geek here I might as well stick with it. The two images below come from our nice friends at NASA. In addition to doing crazy stuff like fly around in outer space, build space stations, and drink Tang, they also provide some pretty awesome pictures on their website. Of course 99% of their work just ends up as computer wallpaper, but still amazing stuff. The two images below are two of the highest resolution images of the earth ever taken. Probably make some nice wallpaper right?! By the way you can click on any of these to get a larger view. Enjoy~

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Last weekend Steph and Andy brought little Jackson over to visit us and as usual I took some pictures.  As you can see he is getting bigger everyday and based on what he told me when no one was listening, I am his favorite big person who doesn’t live with him. I’m just sayin’..

I have added them to the Jackson Andrew album on the Greatlandings Photo Site. And just in case you were wondering they are ordered newest to oldest and also have the date they were taken underneath.

*Edit* Since I had some time I decided to mess around a bit in Photoshop. What I ended up with is an “Old Time” version of a photo. Not that Jackson is “old” just that the picture looks like it was from a long time ago, and is sort of worn out. I also made a little animation to show some of the steps along the way to making this picture. It is hard to tell on such a small size what the final version looks like, but you can see the full size one in the album or by clicking HERE.

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Feels a little odd even talking about this seeing as I don’t even work there anymore, but I still find it pretty interesting. PBS has a series called Frontline and the recent installment is titled “Flying Cheap“. The episode talks about life at regional airlines like the one I worked at for 11 years. They also discuss the string of recent regional accidents like the one in Lexington, and the more recent one in Buffalo, NY.  The show originally aired today at 10:00 PM, but is being repeated several times over the next few days on PBS. You can also watch the entire program online HERE. Below is a short clip from the show and might be a little eye opening and scary to some.

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Erin and I went over to see little baby Jackson again last night. Hard to beleive he is almost double in size what he was just six weeks ago, and that today was his original due date! He was as cute as ever and had his eyes open checking stuff out a lot more then the last time we were over. I have added some more pictures to the Jackson Andrew album on the Photo Site so be sure to check them out. To help keep them sorted I have added the date they were taken below the pictures.

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Erin and I did two amazing things tonight. First we went to dinner at The Melting Pot in Cincinnati. It was the first time either one of us had ever eaten there, and the first time I had ever had eaten at a fondue restaurant. Amazing is the only word to describe it. Wow, to think dipping stuff in a pot at your table can be so yummy!

The second and even more amazing thing we did was visit baby Jackson Andrew. He clearly takes after his dad, because he was one tiny dancer. Erin and I stayed for a couple hours and during that time he never fussed or anything. Just a content, sleepy, little, angel of a baby. Of course I had to take a million pictures and you can check them out in the Jackson Andrew album on the Greatlandings photo site. It was very hard to do, but I managed to sort them down from 100+ to 57. Some things are just too cute to send to the recycle bin. What a beautiful baby!

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