Archive for the 'Douglas' Category
Happy Holidays
December 14, 2007 | Douglas, Holiday
Next week is shaping up to be pretty crazy — a new client, more bad weather, I’m taking 3 kids to the Hannah Montana concert next Friday and then we’re off to Vermont until the New Year — so let me take this moment to wish you all a Merry Chrismakah and a Happy New Year.
After Christmas, I’ll have a report on the Hannah concert and new photo contest. I’ve got a bunch of 8×11 HP Photo Books, plus extra packs of paper. Stay tuned for details.
I so appreciate everyone who has discovered Snapshot Chronicles. Thank you for reading, and I look forward to more photo fun in the New Year.
Peace.
Jumping in the leaves and a little more on HP Photo Books
November 29, 2007 | Douglas, Products
Christmas is edging closer every day. We got our trees last night and plan to decorate them over the next few days. Pictures next week. But before we officially move on from fall, I wanted to share a few pictures I took of Douglas jumping in the leaves last weekend.
In addition to doing a little Christmas shopping, I also made a few HP Photo Books as gifts over the weekend: one of the large size for my uncle and his wife with photos from their 25th anniversary party, and smaller ones for their kids, mostly filled with pictures of their granchildren taken at the party. Of course, I also made one for my mom with pictures of Doug from the past year. (Merry Christmas, Mum!)
Don’t forget about the 20% discount on the Photo Books at the HP store, good until the end of the year, if you’d like to make your own books. Coupon code.
Creme Brulee
November 8, 2007 | Douglas
Creme brulee has become Doug’s favorite dessert, so we made some last night.
Be sure to check out all the neat HP Photo Books contests from the mom bloggers I interviewed for Photographic Memories. The current ones are all listed in my sidebar.
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Happy Halloween
October 26, 2007 | Douglas, Family
Our local Chamber of Commerce sponsors a downtown trick-or-treat every year the Thursday before Halloween. The main street is blocked off, and all the stores hand out candy to the local children from 4-6 pm. It’s a great way to get folks away from the mall and into the downtown area to see the local shops and restaurants.
We live in a fairly rural area of town, and this is really our best option for Douglas to trick or treat, so we go every year. Usually I walk with Douglas and his Dad wanders around taking pictures of trick-or-treaters for the Chamber website. This year though, I was staffing the table for a local education foundation (I’m on the board) so Doug had to walk around with Dad. Afterward, he mentioned something about maybe I could walk around with him next year, so I’m guessing Dad wasn’t as patient as I usually am 
At the table for the Hudson Education Foundation, handily located next to the Chamber’s in front of Town Hall, we handed out candy for the kids and Purell wipes for the clean-up, which was much appreciated by the parents. I think we saw every child from Hudson MA and many many surrounding towns. They kept coming well after 6pm; it was only when the motorcycle cop drove down Main Street to open the road that it finally ended.
I was too busy to take a single photo, but here are a few from David.
In this one, I’m in the background. Douglas (Darth Vader) is asking me something. In the foreground, Marianne Vergano-Laughton, president of the Foundation, is handing out candy.
Here is Douglas as Darth Vader with another child from town. This picture was originally quite dark, so I did some editing in Picasa.
In this shot, Douglas seems to be doing something with the Force, hence the blurred hand.
Applefest, Fall photo tips and pumpkins
October 15, 2007 | Douglas, Photo Contests, Photo Walks, Projects, Travel
Yesterday we went to the AppleFest at Mount Wachusett. The highlight was the chair lift ride to the top of the mountain. It was a gorgeous, cold fall day — clear enough to see Boston in the distance.
Here are some pictures I took on the ride back down the mountain. More on Flickr.
More fall photo fun:
Great fall photo tips from the folks at Photojojo
Jack-o-lantern carving stencils and a pumpkin photo contest from HP and the World Wildlife Fund. The carving stencils feature endangered species and wildlife scenes, and are available at www.worldwildlife.org/pumpkins and the HP Activity Center.
To enter the contest, upload a photo of your carved pumpkin to www.snapfish.com/goingwildwithpumpkins by October 29.
(Disclosure: HP is a client, although I did not work on this project.)
Douglas
September 22, 2007 | Douglas
Busy the last few weeks. Not much time to take pictures. Here’s one of Douglas at the new fancy Natick Collection mall last weekend.
Green Mountain State of Mind
August 10, 2007 | Douglas, Travel
We are up at our house just outside Woodstock, Vermont. Two adults, who are trying to work at least part of the day (God bless the satellite dish in the backyard), one Nintendo-addicted 7-year old, four adult Scotties and two nine-week old puppies, one of whom goes to her new home Monday when we get back to Mass. Next week I am in California to visit a client, but come the 18th we will be up here until Labor Day. Same cast of characters, minus one puppy, and for the last week, plus my mom.
I’ll try to post some pictures of the view from our backyard. In the meantime, you’ll have to settle for the record of our dinner at the Japanese hibachi restaurant in Lebanon, NH:
Don’t forget –we are in the final few hours for submissions to A Little Perspective, the photo contest for kids that I am doing with Tracey Clark and Sheri Reed. Get those entries in!!
Doug’s visit with Grandmum
August 2, 2007 | Douglas, Photo Walks, Travel
Douglas had a great time visiting with his grandmother in Andover. They visited Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth NH, where this picture was taken, and the coastal town of Newburyport MA.
He also had plenty of time to play computer games with his uncle. And care for his WebKinz. Funny, he had two when he left, a pug and a chihuahua, and somehow a little gorilla came home with him
More on WebKinz and how kids interact with social networks later this summer, but my experience is not that different from Jeneane’s so far.
More of Doug’s pics here.
The last day of summer camp
July 21, 2007 | Douglas
The day camp Douglas attends every summer closes out each session with a performance by all the campers. Doug’s group performed a dance to the music of the Lion King. Note Doug’s improvisations.
Doug’s Lobster Dinner
July 15, 2007 | Douglas, Travel
So yesterday, I said I didn’t think I’d use Scrapblog much. Figures that today Doug would reach an important milestone that merited the Scrapblog treatment: his first lobster dinner of his very own in a restaurant. We went into Boston today, popped in quickly to the NE Aquarium, and then took a Harbor Cruise to Charlestown where we briefly toured a destroyer and the USS Constitution. Afterward, we went to Legal Seafoods for a late lunch, early dinner:
Scrapblog link: http://www.scrapblog.com/sgetgood/6B7BE503-ACD3
The weird thing about Scrapblog was that today I could not find a simple direction to “generate embed code.” Instead I had to muck around with the different publish options until I found one that would work with my Wordpress blog.
On another note, Doug and I both took our new HP cameras today. I was a bit disconcerted at not having a viewfinder, even though we really don’t use them that much with snapshot cameras, but overall, pleased with the quality of the photos. You can see the whole set from the day on Flickr.
Doug’s principal goal was to get a good picture of a jelly fish. Which he did.
