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Grandma’s New HDTV:
by Ben
Dad and I flew down to Grandma’s house Friday morning to help setup her new HDTV. She is a huge sports fan, and my Dad suggested getting anHD set when he was down there for her 88th birthday in early October. They went to Best Buy and picked out a set and setup a delivery […]
Week 22 update:
by Ben
We’ve been pregnant for almost 22 weeks now and today was another monthly update. We found out the sex, IT’S A BOY!!!. Nikki’s been going back and forth the whole time on it. Today in the doctors office she was thinking girl. Every family party we go to everyone seems to come to a consensus, […]
I-Way!
by Ben
Iway is a project in Providence where they’re redoing the I-195 and I-95 interchange. They’re about to open the first stage (95N to 195E) next week. Before they did that, they were nice enough to open the bridge for walkers. Nikki, my Mom and I decided to go check it out (Dad was home with […]
Corn Maize.
by Ben
Nikki has always wanted to go to the corn maize at Escobar’s farm in Portsmouth. This year we finally made the trip, and it’s actually a lot of fun. They’ve been doing this for 7 years, and each year it’s a different maize. This years maize is in the shape of a barn, silo and […]
Trains!
by Ben
I love trains. Ever since I was a kid I’ve loved them. I even dressed up for Halloween as a engineer wearing a train made of cardboard… My Mom and I used to drive to NYC to visit her sister (ANBF!). I love everything about them. Not sure what it is, but it’s always been […]
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End of September
by Ben
We had another fun weekend. Saturday was Debbie’s (my mother in law) 60th birthday. We woke up early, walked on the beach, then went off to the store to get supplies for cheesecake. Nikki got called into work (emergency treatment for 2 dogs) so I stayed home and whipped up 2 of my famous cheesecakes […]
DIY hardwood floors.
by Ben
Well our animals have done a good job on our carpets… They love to tear up little pieces of the rug, and we’ve been doing an OK job of hiding that with throw rugs… Friday was the end though. We came home from work and found the reminents of a bird all over the floor […]
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16 week baby update!
by Ben
We had our 16 week checkup today… Awesome visit as we spent nearly 15 minutes checking out the baby on the ultrasound. 10 fingers, 10 toes, 2 kidneys, 2 lungs 4 heart chambers, the head of an 18 week old (just like Dad?!) bones, everything but the sex… Even if we’d wanted to know the […]
Old school lenses on my EOS!
by Ben
Been playing around with the idea of getting some old school MF (manual lenses) on my 5D. I had seen some images on flickr of some old school lenses on miami fever’s 5D. I went to work finding some info about using alternative lenses on my camera. Fred Miranda’s forums are a great resource for […]
New Lens: Canon 17-40L
by Ben
Picked up at canon 17-40mm f4 L. I’m not happy with my Sigma 12-24mm on the FF. It was the perfect lens on the 1.3 bodies, but it’s too wide and not sharp enough for FF IMHO. I also tend to only shoot it at 12mm with certainly doesn’t help. We’ll see how the 17-40L […]
New Lens: Canon 15mm FE!
by Ben
Picked up at canon 15mm fisheye lens today. I’m contemplating selling the sigma 12-24mm for this instead. The sigma seems to be a bit too wide for me on the 5D (full frame) and it’s not very sharp in the corners. It’s also a bit slow for me where the canon is a consistent f/4. […]
Old Images.
by Ben
I’ve been going through all my old digital images in an attempt to get everything organized. I’m also working on setting up my better images over on www.benjacobsenphoto.com to sell them. In the process I found an old fun shot of Nikki, one of me and Nikki on our first anniversary, a few of Moseley, […]