Full Circle...

I received my first film camera in 1982, it was a Kodak instant camera that could shoot ten photos per cartridge.  I loved that camera and was very choosy about what I took pictures of because the film was so expensive.



A few years later I upgraded to a Kodak disc camera.  Well, upgraded should be in quotes, that camera took awful pics but I could now shoot 15 pics.  (I even have a few discs that were never developed...I wonder what is on them?)


When I bought my first 35mm camera, I was so happy to have 36 exposures to experiment with. I took thousands of photos and even though every frame had to be developed, I loved that camera.

In the late 90's I borrowed a "digital camera" to take pics of my first son and I was hooked!  I could take thousands of pics and never pay for developing!

Over the years, I began taking more and more pics with more sophisticated digital cameras and never worried about how much room I was taking up on my computer...

Until....I bought my latest camera, a 12 megapixel point and shoot.  I find myself being more choosy with my pics these days because the photos are so big!  200 pics can now take up 1GB of hard drive space.

So, in order to keep me from spending hours deleting mediocre shots, I am now just as choosy as I was when I was shooting my first instant pics.

I guess it's time for a name change...

When I started this blog a few years ago, I wanted to be able to share my experiences of what it's like to shoot video for NASA as we began our journey back to the moon.

I was able to talk about and post pictures of the work that was being done on the Ares rocket and the J-2X engines...

A few things happened that caused me to slow down my blog posts...

#1 - It took me a long time to post an entry every few days because I always had a lot of pics.

#2 - I became concerned that I would say something or worse, post a picture that might contain Sensitive But Unclassifed information.

#3 - I began using Facebook more and more and I liked the immediate feedback I was getting and the ease of posting pics and updates.

Well, now it looks like Constellation and also Ares will be going away in favor of some "game-changing" technologies yet to be thought of....

I still shoot video for NASA, I still love my job and I still love sharing what I do with everyone.

JB

Eric's 1st baseball season...

Click here to see all of the pics from this post...also, click on the pics below to see the larger versions...

Last Fall, Eric played baseball the the very first time on a real team. He was very excited about it and, to be honest, so were we.





Eric had a great time and seemed to doing really well!





His coaches were also impressed with him and surprised to hear that this was his first time playing organized baseball...







Spring ball is right around the corner and he is already signed up!