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Hannah Montana Wrap-up

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Well, I was crazy enough to take three kids to the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus concert just before Christmas. With all the holiday to and fro, plus work, I just finished making souvenir HP Photo Books for the two young ladies who joined Douglas and me at the concert.

HP is one of the sponsors of the tour, which is how I got the tickets in the first place.As a result, unlike most concerts, bringing a camera was actively encouraged. Kids can create an HP Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus Memory Book at www.disney.com/hannah, and purchase a book online, or print it out at home.

Since the pages were designed for the larger HP Photo Book format, it was very easy to add our own pictures and create the books. I think it would make a nice souvenir for any Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus fan, whether they attended the concert or not.

My favorite pictures? This one, of the keyboard player snapping a pic of Miley at the end of the concert:

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And this one, of poor Douglas, who wasn’t feeling so well and fell asleep toward the end of the concert. Hard to do when you are sitting in row six but he managed it.

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Whew, Christmas!!

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Well, Christmas has been and gone, and we got lots of photo-related gifts in our family. I got my longed-for Canon Digital Rebel, and Santa brought the family a Flip camcorder. Even my husband got into the game — one of the few things he really wanted was a device that attaches to his telescope and uses the PC as the camera engine to take astronomy photos. And my brother, known here as the Uncle, got some items for his new Nikon D40, including a book on how to get the most out of his camera.

So I expect we’ll have lots of things to write about in the coming year. Starting with a report on last Friday’s Hannah Montana concert, which we were lucky enough to attend courtesy of my client HP, one of the sponsors.

Because HP was a sponsor, photography was allowed at the concert, and it was amazing to see so many people clicking away. Our photos are on Flickr.

In the meantime, let me leave you with a video I took with the Flip of my dogs playing with another one of my brother’s gifts, an alarm clock that runs and hides if you attempt to snooze. It was dead easy to upload the video directly to YouTube using the Flip interface.

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