Photo: Big ‘ole Cloud

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Big cloud

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Photo: Peanut the Beagle

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Peanut the Beagle

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Long exposure night sky photo

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Long exposure night sky photo

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Sunset at Thousand Hills

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Boat Dock at Thousand Hills

Sunburst through trees

Arizona desert at sunset

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Cactus at Sunset

Photographing Mesa, Arizona

In mid March, while it was still below freezing in Kirksville, I flew to Mesa, Arizona where the weather was perfect in every way. The trip was for work, but it was not without it’s fun times. I spent my last evening there at a local park and captured some photos of the desert landscape at sunset.

Although I only spent about 45 minutes shooting photos, I got some keepers.

You can check out more of my desert & cacti photos on iStock – where you could even license them for your own use!

A simple idea on responsive design

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mobile devices

Recently, I’ve been boning up on the principles of mobile first and responsive web design. I’ve read Ethan Marcotte’s book, Responsive Web Design and also almost through with Luke Wroblewski’s book Mobile First. So far, I’ve built two websites using responsive techniques and let me tell you, all the reading in the world doesn’t prepare you for actually building something (and writing your very first media query). Reading about ‘best practices’ is one thing, but doing the (sometimes boring) work that involves formatting content and photos helps you discover your own best practices.

One of those ‘discovered’ best practices is this…

When there are many photos on a webpage that support the content, but aren’t absolutely necessary – it’s OK to choose not to display them on smaller screens. For example, on a recent project, I was finding that some photos were specifically referenced in the content and were vital to understand the content, but others were stock photos that were just niceties, but not necessities. For those non-vital images, I removed them on smaller screens to allow for a more concise reading experience.

Simple idea that sounds like a no-brainer, but it was a minor break-through for me.

Photos: Upsilon Phi Jazz Fest 2013

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Ever since I was a student at Truman and was in the jazz ensemble and a few jazz combos, I’ve enjoyed checking out the jam session that occurs on jazz fest weekend every year. Enjoy these photos I captured of the group performing some great jazz.

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jazz saxophonist

jazz saxophonist

jazz saxophonist

Snow timelapse

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Photos were taken from my home office window every 3-5 minutes from 11am – 5pm on the day of a snow storm.

Sunrise over Rocky Lake Shore

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Sunrise over Rocky Lake ShoreSunrise over Rocky Lake Shore

Deer

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Deer