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Snowfall in Arlington, Virginia

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Fort Washington National Park, Maryland

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Fort Foote National Park, Maryland

As I have complained before, it’s been a little cold for photography … and it’s even snowed several times in the last two weeks (which almost scandalous for Washington, DC).

While I am enough of a New Englander to not complain about 4 inches of snow, I am enough of a DC’er to allow the snow to suck out my will to leave the house.

I have spent the last couple of weeks playing around with the camera in my cell phone (an LG-VX8300) which is somewhat shocking in that it has the same resolution as my three year old Canon PowerShot A60.

Over the space of about 8 days, I took some snaps documenting the way to and from work, and below are a sample of what it produced.

Photo Courtesy of Voisin Photography

Well, we have signed a contract with Sarah Voisin of Voisin Photography. We just loved her work (Tasha literally the first time she saw them) and the only “remorse” we had heard from any of our friends was “we wish we had spent more for our photographer.” So we kinda splurged and got the one we really wanted.

We also got full rights to all the images, as soon as they are available … so we will be able to share them with everyone almost immediately after the wedding.

It’s too cold to take pictures where I am (blustery Washington DC) so I integrated the Flickr API into my site over the weekend, and used the new tools (and momentum that came with them) to plow through a whole list of things I had been pushing off.

The front page is now a fully functioning part of the blog, which is good because it provides about 80% of the updated content on the site. Also, all pages on the [Random Musings] blog now pull their wrapper images dynamically from my “favorites” photo set on Flickr, which means I can stop rotating them by hand.

Finally, the [Photography] section now has — GASP! — photographs, including a run down of my most recent photoblog posts, my most recent Flickr sets, and a few more images pulled from my “favorites” photo set on Flickr.

Oh, and I did a bunch of design work on the blog too. New headers, new formatting. Everything (should) look much cleaner now.

FWIW, I highly recommend the Flickr API, though integrating it into your site is probably not for the weak of heart. I did most of the work through phpFlickr, but even that needed a lot of customization to get it to do what I wanted.

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U.S. Botanic Garden, Washington, DC