Blog: Stefanie

I posted some of these pictures a while back, but forgot to link to them from the blog. This year, we celebrated Thanksgiving with Stef's family on the actual holiday, then traveled to Boston the following weekend for Thanksgiving with my family and our annual Hanukkah-Christmas celebration with family friends. My parents visited DC two weeks later, followed by Christmas with Stef's family again, for a wonderfully family-packed month.

August 17, 2007 was Stefanie's and my six month anniversary (mensiversary?), and we were in Washington DC for one of Stef's friends' wedding. To celebrate, we took a dinner cruise up the Potomac, past the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials, National Airport, Kennedy Center, Watergate, and the Georgetown waterfront. Despite being sadly marred by highways like Rock Creek Parkway and the Kennedy Center's parking entrances, Washington is beautiful from the water at night, its monuments gleaming from among the trees.

Stef and I visited her parents' house on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, my first time there.

Over Memorial Day weekend, Stefanie got to see my favorite vacation spot, the island of Martha's Vineyard, for the first time.

I also have been learning more advanced Photoshop color correction from this book. Unlike most Photoshop books, rather than simply giving recipes to follow and trying to use every new Photoshop command, this book delves into the basic theory of color, channels, and contrast, using curves, blending modes, sharpening, and other simple yet complex tools to make better images. It's really dense, and there's still a lot to learn, but you be the judge of whether these images are better than the last set I edited.