Photo 52 - Week 34: Command?

I'm a Dragon Quest fan, and anyone who's played a DQ game all the way through knows that feeling of finding a Metal Slime.  They also know that feeling when the Metal Slime flees.  And this brings my pictures of Slimes to 2 out 34 weeks or about 6% for 2011.  How can you resist that dopey smile?

Photo 52 - Week 33: Happy Birthday

Christina gets back-to-back weeks!  In reality I've been in a photography dry spell, but I really like how this hurried and impromptu shot of Christina turned out.  God bless the 7d's ability to shoot high ISO and Lightroom's ability to turn that noise into something silky smooth.

Midnight Mansion HD

 Click here to go to the ActionSoft website for more info and to download MM HD!

Midnight Mansion HD was released earlier this week on the Mac OS X App store.  The first Episode (we had to split it into 2 episodes) is $5, and features 5 huge mansions (including 2 brand new mansions!).  The graphics have been completely redrawn by yours truly, and it looks better than ever.

If you haven't heard of MM HD, and have been craving some good classic platformer action-adventure gaming on the Mac, go get it now!  Even if you've played the original, you haven't seen it looks as polished as it does now!  For $5 there's literally dozens of hours of gameplay.

The App Store is a savage arena where Apps battle it out, and the only key to victory is word of mouth and enough good luck to get into the top 10.  So if you are interested, buy it!  If you like it, rate it!  You are doing a service and helping my good friend Vern pay the bills so he can keep making games.

Photo 52 - Week 32: Christina

If you haven't already, meet my wife.  I rarely shoot portraits, but when Christina needed a photo taken for her work's website, I was more than happy to pull out my nifty 50mm f/1.4 and give it a shot.  I'm extremely happy with how they turned out, especially this one.

The late afternoon light was perfect, and all I did in Lightroom was a little warming up of the white balance and boosting the contrast.  It helps that the model was so good looking also.