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2013-04-30 02:13:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Ori, picking a few flowers in the backyard tonight...

Tech specs: Canon 5D Mark III, 400 mm, f/5.6, 1/500 second exposure, ISO 1,600, handheld.

2013-04-29 02:11:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Spent the weekend recharging the batteries.

(Literally.)

As in several dozen sets of 'AA' batteries, digital camera batteries, and making sure that neglected electronics all have a full charge :)

2013-04-26 19:17:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

My new writeup on the difference between Magento Enterprise and Magento Community: http://www.customerparadigm.com/magento-enterprise-vs-magento-community/

2013-04-24 05:20:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I was asked to photograph the dress rehearsal of a new opera that will be opening Thursday night in Boulder; here is one of the first images from tonight (more to follow).

Tech specs: Canon 5D Mark III, 34 mm, f/10, 1/100 second exposure, ISO 640, three flash setup with remote triggers through white umbrellas.

2013-04-23 15:56:02 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

A few photos from a trip to San Francisco, CA.  Ori doing a little climbing on rocks by the beach.  Taken with the Canon 5D MarkIII, 50mm lens, no flash.

2013-04-22 16:36:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

http://youtu.be/4bkU-yi4454

Need a little break from it all?  De-stress by listening to the waves of the Pacific Ocean crash softly into China beach in San Francisco.  No people, no action, just a 48 second clip of the waves on the beach in San Francisco.  Enjoy!!

Tech Specs: Canon 5D Mark III, 50 mm lens, placed on a rock, manual focus.

2013-04-22 16:29:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-04-15 20:02:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

My recap of the Magento Imagine 2013 Conference in photos, including Magento Enterprise version 1.13 released: http://www.customerparadigm.com/magento-imagine-2013-recap/

2013-04-10 06:06:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Here's a photo of the strip of Las Vegas at night, taken through a window of a hotel off-strip at the Magento Imagine conference... 

200 mm, f/2.8, 1/80 second, ISO 12,800, handheld

2013-04-08 01:03:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Ibex, on the side of the trail, on the way to Ein Aikev, outside Sde Boker, southern Israel.  Canon 5D MkIII, 400 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 second, ISO 800, handheld.

2013-04-08 01:02:05 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

An Ibex on the side of the trail on the hike to Ein Aikev spring in the southern desert of Israel, outside Sde Boker.  

Tech specs: Canon 5D Mark III, 400 mm, f/14, ISO 800, 1/800 second exposure.

2013-04-08 00:59:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Here's an image from my recent trip to the desert of Israel...  Our group was hiking in a dust storm.  But being from Colorado, we just kept going and didn't know it was bad.  The color / white balance is straight out of the camera.  The camera... needs to go in for a cleaning. :)

Canon 5D Mark III, 70-200 f/2.8 lens; 1/500 second exposure, f/5.6, 85 mm.

2013-04-08 00:50:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Godaddy hosted sites appear to be down right now; they are aware of the issue and seem (I hope) to be working on it... #godaddy 

2013-04-07 23:27:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Our latest Magento extension: Watchdog - daily sales summary emails, trigger-based alert emails, and error reporting:
http://www.customerparadigm.com/watchdog/

2013-03-23 21:54:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Here's a wild antelope in the desert of Israel. I took this through a bus window while the bus was driving about 45 miles per hour... 200 mm, f/5.6, 1/2,500 second exposure, ISO 2,500, handheld.

2013-03-19 20:15:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Here's the view of tonight's sunset from the beach in Tel Aviv...

Tech Specs: 50D, 400mm, f/5.6, 1/1000 second, ISO 800, handheld.

2013-03-13 18:11:54 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

I'm now officially listed on Google's site as a Google Trusted Photographer: http://maps.google.com/help/maps/businessphotos/get-started.html

2013-03-07 21:29:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Baltimore Catering
http://www.garrisoncatering.com/

2013-03-06 02:56:14 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I love this shot...  it was snowing, but the sidewalks are heated, so it created a fun misty steam.

2013-03-06 02:55:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The local high school pop-song production...

2013-03-06 02:53:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Walking on frozen ice...

2013-03-06 02:41:44 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Here's a fun photo from last weekend during a snowshoe trip :)

2013-03-06 02:41:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

How to choose between Magento Enterprise and Magento Community Commerce (a comparison article we wrote): http://www.customerparadigm.com/choosing-between-magento-enterprise-and-community-edition/

2013-03-05 17:30:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Elert & Asociates | Security Consulting 
http://elert.com/security.php

2013-02-25 15:57:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Quick image uploading issue in Magento discussion thread:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/307374/

2013-02-21 23:01:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

My latest article: SEO Myths Debunked #6: We`ll Get Thousands of Links To Your Site
http://www.customerparadigm.com/seo-myths-debunked-6-well-get-thousands-of-links-to-your-site/

2013-02-19 21:13:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

MultiDay Rafting Trip in Colorado | Wilderness Aware!
http://www.inaraft.com/camping-multi-day-vacation.php

2013-02-19 04:17:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

This is my favorite image of the day... Sadie posing at ballet, with her teacher's arms reflected in the the mirror in front of her.

Tech details: Canon 5D Mark III, handheld w/ no flash, 70-200 mm f/2.8 lens, 200 mm, f/3.2, ISO 2,000, 1/200 second exposure.

2013-02-18 02:46:11 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

A quick photo from Casa Bonita in Denver today - the cliff-diving restaurant.  There was a strong backlight, and the place is really, really dark.  So I cranked it up to ISO 10,000 and used the flashlight app on the iPhone to throw a little extra light on the face.  

2013-02-12 23:57:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

P3P Privacy Policy Implementations: http://www.w3.org/P3P/implementations.html

2013-02-12 17:34:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

My latest article: 
SEO Myths Debunked #5: Unsolicited SEO Offers Via Web Contact Forms:
http://www.customerparadigm.com/seo-myths-debunked-5-unsolicited-seo-offers-via-web-contact-forms/

2013-02-08 04:32:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

A fun iPhone photo of three ski patrollers on the chair in front of me at Copper Mountain, Colorado.

Tech Specs: iPhone 4S, f/2.4, 4.28mm, ISO 50, 1/2400 per second exposure.

2013-02-05 23:17:16 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Just passed the Google Trusted Photographer quiz w/ a 95%!

2013-02-05 18:29:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

My latest article:
SEO Myths Debunked #4: We took a look at your site, and there are some things in the HTML code that are not optimized for search engines:
http://www.customerparadigm.com/seo-myths-debunked-4-we-took-a-look-at-your-site-and-there-are-some-things-in-the-html-code-that-are-not-optimized-for-search-engines/

2013-02-01 16:45:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

USPS Shipping Quotes Patch for ALL Magento Sites – Community and Enterprise:
http://www.customerparadigm.com/usps-shipping-quotes-patch-for-all-magento-sites-community-and-enterprise/

2013-01-31 21:23:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

My latest SEO Article: SEO Myths Debunked #3: We’ll Hand-Submit Your Site to Search Engines:
http://www.customerparadigm.com/seo-myths-debunked-3-hand-submit-site-to-search-engine/

2013-01-31 21:03:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Best Boulder DUI Lawyer!

2013-01-26 20:43:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

For anyone that has a server at OLM.net, they appear to be completely down right now (Jan 26, 2012 - 1:43 pm Mountain Time).  

No real new updates, but the last time this happened they posted updates here on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/OLMLLC 

2013-01-25 00:40:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

We've posted a new New Magento Tutorial: Building Products in Magento With Multiple Options:
http://www.customerparadigm.com/magento-tutorial-building-products-in-magento-with-multiple-options/

2013-01-23 02:59:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Paint glaze on pottery... taken with a Macro lens...

2013-01-23 02:58:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

We went to an art studio this week for painting pottery; I brought the camera.

Tech specs: Canon 5D Mark III, 150 mm Macro Lens, handheld, available light.

2013-01-22 22:37:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Our new Customer Paradigm website has launched... it's the sixth one we've created for ourselves since 2002: http://www.CustomerParadigm.com/

2013-01-21 01:29:09 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Rabbis on Skis!  

Enjoy these images from a rabinnic conference in Vail, Colorado, with rabbis from around the US.

All images were taken with the Canon 5D Mark III; all the outdoor shots were taken with the 40mm f/2.8 pancake lens.  (Mostly because the lens fits so nicely under a ski jacket.)

2013-01-20 00:23:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

The view from Chair 5 at Vail, Colorado.

I took this earlier this week while photographing a conference.  If you have skied Vail, Chair 5 is some of the best skiing there.

Tech Specs: Canon 5D Mark III, 40mm pancake lens.

2013-01-20 00:20:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I didn't post the final photos of these bottles of Bourbon from Sam Medley, but now that the Old Medley brand is now on store shelves, here's the final images that I took of both bottles.  

Tech Details: This was done on a black background, with three flashes.  Two flashes were remotely triggered on light stands, shot through Gary Fong Diffusers, then through white umbrellas, and then through a third diffuser panel.  The third flash was directly behind the bottle, and had a yellow warming gel on it that helped light the liquid from the inside.  I used a halogen light, again on a lightstand, but diffused that as well with a dome diffuser to cut reflection.  It was shot using the Canon 1DX (then on loan from Canon; I had to send it back), with a 150 mm macro lens @ f/16, on a tripod with mirror lockup.

2013-01-10 02:50:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

My friend, Sam Medley is re-launching a bourbon brand... his grandfather had distilled this in the 1950s, and Sam found a bottle of it hiding in his basement. Sam dropped off a new bottle today for photos, but the best part is that I get to keep the bottle when the photos are done. It's fun to have this a few weeks before it hits the shelves.

Tech Specs for the photo: I still am testing the Canon 1DX, so I used this, along with a macro lens and a three flash setup with lots of diffusers (i.e. a flash on a Gary Fong collapsable diffuser, shot through a white umbrella, then diffused even more with a 1 stop diffuser panel).  I also had a halogen light shining on the front, and a clipped the top of a Gary Fong diffuser to cut more reflections.  (Good thing we did a bunch of work on Gary's site, so I was able to get a bunch of products).

Canon 1DX, 150 mm macro lens, f/8.0, ISO8... more »

2013-01-08 17:19:45 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

FYI, Adobe is now offering free CS2 Downloads off of their site for free:
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
 
This is in response to all of the stuff out there, and they’d rather have people get an older version for free than have people pirate stuff.

2013-01-06 14:14:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

What would you do if you received a Canon 1DX to test out?  I decided to take it skiing at Copper Mountain, Colorado, and see how it compared to skiing with the Canon 5D Mark III.  I used the 40mm f/2.8 pancake lens, as it works really well in bright light, focuses fast, and fits easily under the ski jacket.  

Here are some images from today.  Bottom line: most of the functionality is similar.  But the 1DX is a race car.  You press the shutter button and boom...  lots of images.  I went through 20 gb before I knew it.  Great camera.  But it costs more than my truck.  Which isn't saying a lot for the truck, I guess :)

2012-12-31 23:16:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Customer Paradigm Adds Three More Magento Certified Developers to our team:
http://www.customerparadigm.com/customer-paradigm-adds-three-new-magento-certified-developers/

2012-12-26 00:06:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Playing out in the snow in Boulder, Colorado...  on a cold, snowy Xmas day.  Taken with a 50 mm lens @ ISO 50, f/2.0, 1/200 second exposure.