Geocaching

Posted on September 23rd, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Personal, Funny, Internet, Rochester NY, Family, Games.


The kids and I are goofing off doing some Geocaching and above we’re indicating our 2nd find.

You use a GPS to get in the ballpark area of treasure that other Geocachers hide, then search around and maybe work out clues… we’re having a blast.
The find above was in Ontario NY in Casey Park… it was ‘Yellowjacket’ themed and the swag Colin got from it was a 1943 steel penny. Then you leave something for the next finder, which Colin left one of his special $1 bill rings.

Believe it or not, I missed seeing this and was right under it looking on the ground and Colin said ‘Dad, whaaaat’s that??!” and, of course it was the cache in a cool Yellowjacket container.

Check out our first cache find HERE and more in general from Geocaching.com.

And part of the fun is that you don’t want anyone else to know what you are up to, so there’s lots of sneaking around (and buying french fries to look nonchalant at the McDonalds cache.. .(which we still haven’t found!)

Go to the site and put in your zip code…it’s amazing how many caches are probably within 10 miles of your house…it’s a world going on around you that you never knew. How cool is that!

10 bonus points for anyone who can tell what our handle is from: Spiderweb4-2

See you out on a hunt someday!

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I’m Wired!

Posted on April 4th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Theatre, Funny, Internet, Blogging, Games.

I’m a geek and love reading Wired Magazine. It’s the only magazine left that I don’t just get the info online. Wired has a fun thing if you’re geeky too… you can put your photo on the cover and do headlines and stuff. Try it out HERE

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FIRST Rochester Robotics Competition

Posted on March 10th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Schools, Photo, Rochester NY, Games.

I’m just editing photos from the awesome robot competition…That was a cool challenge you had to do! I’ve posted a few quick favorites HERE, and I’ll be putting more up as time goes on.


I’ll also have a post soon about a sponsorship of a cool photo area with a free download collage and slide shows… thanks to the Finney Falcons for underwriting that, and for Xerox/FIRST for having me do the event again this year. I really love it. And RIT is an awesome host for the event. Congratulations to all of the teams!

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Doin’ Taxes Like it’s 1999

Posted on January 25th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Personal, Equipment, Funny, Photo, Internet, Photoshop, Games.

I rotate my taxes boxes over a 7 year period, so I just pulled my 1999 taxes to make way for doing 2006.

How different things were just seven years ago:


• Digital Cameras—I paid $900+ for my first digital pro-sumer camera a year or so before (Kodak DC260) and was in 1999 deducting my next digital camera, the Nikon CoolPix 950 for over $1000.

• Computer RAM…anybody up for the big 128Megabyte RAM upgrade (PC100) for $138!

• Blank CD’s for my burner—$2 per blank CD (they are about 25¢ each now)… ah, and on the same invoice, I bought the first version of the


Myst Game!

• Phone Bills—Back then I had a normal phone line and long distance via Sprint. It was around $35/month for the local phone and $40-$50/month in long distance.
Today, I have Vonage for my home line for less than $20/month and my cell service with Cingular comes with free long distance.


• Film & Chemicals—I would go to RIT and buy around $300 worth of supplies every three to four weeks. And then there was process and color at labs, and my time doing this all.
Today: Digital, baby! After you plunk down the big money for the camera, upgraded Mac, Software, etc, etc…as Lisa I’m sure will tell you ;-)

• A delivery service was needed back then to deliver things from here (45 minutes from Rochester). Now clients edit online and get their images from me by convenient download.


• My Photoshop 5.5 Upgrade was bought in 1999,

and I paid $70 to renew HuthPhoto.com for two more years (I just paid around $80 to buy it till 2015.

• I photographed Meryl Streep as my first big event for the George Eastman House in 1999, and I see that Geva was going strong as a big client

• Logos—Above, you’ll see I was phasing out the ‘film and sprockets’ logo (top of page, on the right) and was moving toward the big, swoopy H logo (up there again on the left).

I bagged that after a few years of getting payments to H Photo. Is my current logo, here, too dated yet?

So, that’s the trip in the way-back machine I just took and hope you’ll get a kick out of seeing how much has changed with digital photography, the ‘net and HuthPhoto in these last amazing seven years.

Comment (from my old blog):
Joe
I think I still have notepads with both of those old logos!
Monday, February 19, 2007 - 11:17 AM

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Still Lovin’ the Wii

Posted on January 23rd, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Personal, Funny, Games.

We’re loving playing on the Nintento Wii that we got in late November. Was it worth chasing and standing in line for at Best Buy??… You bet!

Here are snaps of standing in line for the Wii.

PS: I hate my Treo’s camera… I can’t wait for the iPhone from Apple!

The best part of the wait was the people. Goofing off is a lost art for most of us these days, so it was refreshing to do something so weird as this and pull pranks on the folks who drove up (telling them we were in line for an ‘American Idol’ tryout… (see photos right)

We now have over 24 hours logged playing Zelda and it’s really been a fantastic time with Colin and Lydia to solve things together and fight the baddies. I never could have imagined in the old D&D 1970’s that this kind of game could have evolved for my kids!

Hey, and I got my Wii Fitness age down to the minimum of 20! Now just to hit the treadmill to make my body look worthy of that Wii age ;-)

Learn more:
Wii.com
IGN: Wii Launch Guide

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Chasing the Wii

Posted on November 29th, 2006 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Personal, Family, Games.

The last time Colin and I did something goofy like this was for the Apple Store opening @ Eastview Mall. We got up at 6:30am and stood in line for 3 hours at Best Buy… but we finally scored the new Nintendo Wii!

It had been a week of trying to get it (5am on launch day at Target & EB Games) and then the whole week tracking rumors of Wii sightings.

We had a blast in the line. It particularly helped that some employees told us there were 52 in stock and we had #21. The best part was when people would drive by and ask what the line was for and kids had them convinced we were there for an American Idol tryout! A woman cut loose singing an living it up and I did Elvis.

User report: The Wii totally lives up to the hype. I love the family focus Nintendo has. That’s what put us over the edge on buying this. We didn’t own any console before (well, for 15 years, since the NES), but Nintendo is going a totally different direction from the other companies (Sony and Microsoft XBox). Where they are pushing more jazzy looking graphics and crazy prices, Nintendo is improving gameplay and focusing on ease of use and family fun.

We bought 3 games (in addition to the terrific Wii Sports that’s bundled free):
Rayman Raving Rabbids: Goofy fun. Rayman has party games… dancing, running silly, shooting plungers, etc. We’re really addicted to this one.
Excite Truck: just a fun racing game, where you steer using the Wii’s motion sensing remote
Zelda Twilight Princess: Role Playing adventure. Haven’t started it yet, but it looks like an epic quest.
Also Animal Crossing for the Game Cube, since the kids knew they loved it.

What’s cool about the Wii:

    Inexpensive ($250 compared to hundreds more for the others). This leaves money to buy games, extra remotes for family play, etc.
    Motion sensing remotes totally change how you play. I hated the old ‘press these 7 buttons together to run really fast’ thing. If you want to hit a baseball, just swing the remote like a bat.
    Games that are about fun and meant to be played as a family
    Elegant software interface, small console
    No charge for the online uses
    Creating our own characters and trading them with family, then they all show up in games
    Because of the new remote, learning a game is fast, easy and fun
    Lots of family games, not just shooters
    Download many old Nintendo games for cheap ($5-$15), also play any Game Cube game… so there are many great games available, including the ones we grew up with
    The Wii tracks play time, so you don’t go nuts
    Many of the sports games are really athletic. We actually are sweating playing. There are even games to track your skill and I can see some real exercise potential to future games. I’ve read Nintendo interview where they really are into that idea.
    The idea of sticking it to the other companies to tell them, it’s about innovation and cool games, not polygons. I read an ARSTechnica review that said the other systems’ games just look like the old games ‘with a new coat of paint’, and for more money.

The final fun part of our quest to get the Wii is that my parents in FL heard about the Best Buy sale and did an amazing thing… they also got up at 6am to score a Wii for the grandkids. How sweet was that! And here’s what Mom said about the experience : “We enjoyed sitting and chatting with the young people on Sun. morning. We were second in line so we knew that we would get one.” My folks are in there 70’s, and Mom’s never up before 10am with lots of coffee, so that’s love, eh?!

We found a good home up here with friends for the Wii they got as well, since we both got one at the same time. Ah, what an adventure.

Learn more:
Wii.com
IGN: Wii Launch Guide

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