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July 24, 2014

Tysons Corner Center – the Plaza

Just another quick post today – it will be a busy few days at the Tysons Corner Center. I will be there to cover all the activities! For those that live in the northern Virginia area, Tysons Corner has seen lanes expanding on the freeway. Also, we have railways snaking above the roadways, and tall buildings rising into the sky.

This weekend will be a big milestone in many of the projects for the area. At this time, will be the opening of The Plaza that extends out of Tysons Corner Center. I got a sneak peek into the place, and can tell you it will be a great space for families, shoppers, and business people as they pass through the area. Since this is just the beginning, it is a great blank canvas for events.

When there are no events going on, it will be a nice spot just to enjoy the outdoor weather. During sunny days, they have overhead protection from the sun above the benches. Likewise there are gas heaters around some benches during colder months. If you will attend any of the festivities this weekend, and I think you should – stop by and say hello!

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July 22, 2014

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Happy Birthday!

We are planning another birthday celebration for my mother tonight! She has been very busy lately, and it can be tough to keep up with her schedule. Last weekend, she was a sponsor at a wedding that I photographed, so she was in many of the photos. Since I am still working on those images, I have not found any with her from Saturday, so those will have to wait. It’s a good thing, she has been a prolific photographer and photography subject for a long time!

Recently, I have had many of our old negatives scanned into digital form so that we can catalog them better. They were just sitting in drawers around her house and garage, and no one has seen them in a long time. It is time to really get them into a format that we can view and share them. I suggest that you do this while you still remember who is in these frames.

Just like with society at large, the number of our photos has exploded with digital technologies. But even in the film days, my parents were prolific shutterbugs. There are negatives, prints, and slides all over the place. I may never get to all of them, but it is worth the effort to try. There are so many great ways to share them online. It is not just your memories that you are sharing, it is so much fun to add them to the collective of your friends. This has been my favorite part of social media, and it probably fuels my photographic inspiration in my job. I feel like I am adding to personal histories, and I hope that my images will last at least as long as my family’s images. They are all worth preserving!

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July 21, 2014

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Busy Monday

This last weekend was very busy for TimeLine Media! There have been so many hits to the website which I was expecting with the expiring events. We know it was a busy weekend in the northern Virginia area for ballroom dancers as they competed at the Virginia State Dancesport Championships in Reston, VA. I have enjoyed seeing everyone’s images of the great dancing! We were busy with our own photography projects out of town, but you will have to wait to see our results from that on the blog – there are some great images, and I am excited to share those soon.

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As a reminder, the Baltimore Dancesport Challenge photos expire today. They will no longer be viewable on the website, and it will take some time to get them out of the archive after they are removed. Thanks to all the participants that visited the website, and purchased photos from this event!

I need to get back to putting in orders and editing photos, so this will not be a big post. If you were following me on Twitter or Instagram, you may have noticed a new camera in the feed. Last week was the official launch date for the new Nikon D810 camera. I was lucky enough to get a copy from my local camera store, and I was eager to make some test images. So, I went out to a small lily patch in the side yard.

Luckily, there was someone else on the shoot that I really did not see until after I zoomed in! The very high megapixel count of this camera allowed me to see this lawn big so clearly! I immediately grabbed a macro lens to see how close I could get to this guy. He made it a fun shoot, and a perfect setting to test some new gear.

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