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Miles Boyer > 02-02-08. Before and After. SEE THE TIME LAPSE VIDEO HERE I installed 450 square feet of laminate flooring in the basement today. This room will be a general purpose family/living/studio/bar space. We didn't want carpet in this room, and the laminate was a pretty good bang for the buck. This stuff goes down fairly quick, but fitting pieces in doorways and around corners can be a bit time consuming. At the beginning of this project, I decided to set up my camera and use the interval timer in order to put together a time-lapse movie. I've been wanting to do this for a while, but I've never pulled it off. I think the movie turned out pretty well. Kate and I watched it about 5 times in a row and laughed all the way through it. (the cats provided a funny distraction from the floor laying.) I tried posting the movie here on my site, but I couldn't get it to play correctly. I'll continue to work on that. In the meantime, I've posted it on YouTube here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=rspkVi0Uek0 Make sure you have the volume turned up. Check it out!
Miles Boyer > 02-13-08. Ice Art. I thought this ice covered light fixture was a work of art just waiting to be noticed. The blue sky, red wall, and shadow caught my eye. The ice did start to melt today, but it should really melt tomorrow when temps reach the 50s.
Miles Boyer > 10-29-08. Pumpkin Portrait. We carved our pumpkins this evening. Camille was pretty excited about the whole process. She really wanted to poke holes in the pumpkins using the safety carving tool. Unfortunately her pumpkin was rock hard, so the safety carver wouldn't work. It was all I could do to jab a knife into that thing, so I had to settle for a simple design. Camille did have fun playing with the pumpkin seeds and slime. After we finished she didn't want to put her pumpkin down. She just wanted to carry it around all night.
Miles Boyer > 07-12-06. Self Portrait. Yes, I actually took this picture myself. And yes, the motorcycle was moving. I've been thinking about this picture for a few weeks now, but this is the first chance I've had to try it. I had my tripod strapped down tight to the back seat. The legs were folded in, and it was just laying horizontally and extending about 2 feet out from the edge of the motorcycle. I attached my camera, and as a backup, I wrapped the camera strap solidly around a rack on my motorcycle. I used my remote shutter release to trigger the shutter. I tried several of these as I cruised around on back roads. Quite a few of my attempts were extremely blurry due to the vibration of the motorcycle and the not too solid tripod rig. I had several pictures with really awesome sky and scenery, but they were too blurry. I may have to try this again with a more solid tripod rig and better sky and scenery. As I was riding around the backrouds, I actually came across another motorcycle rider. I had stopped to adjust my camera, and he stopped to make sure I wasn't broken down. He saw my setup on the back of my bike, and he couldn't believe I would hang "a few hundred dollars" in camera gear off the back of my bike. I grinned and told him that my camera cost "slightly" more than a few hundred dollars. Then he thought I was really crazy. We chatted a few more minutes about our bikes and then headed our separate ways. Besides taking crazy pictures while riding, I had a really nice and long ride this evening. The weather was perfect, and I was treated to a nice sunset on the ride home. I had to stop and take some pictures of it too, but I thought this was a more appropriate photo of the day. I may post a sunset picture later in the recent favorites gallery. Now I better clean the bugs off the front of my lens.
Miles Boyer > 05-02-06. Sunset at Fellows Lake. I competed (ok, a better word would be participated) in a duathlon this evening around Fellows Lake. This was a 2 mile run, 11 mile ride event. I didn't even know anything about it until 2 days ago when Amy & Ellen were talking about it. I didn't actually decide to participate until today. Needless to say, I hadn't trained at all. 6 years of sitting behind a desk has definitely had an effect on me. Even though I knew I was in bad shape, I decided to give it a try. Amy, Chris, and Ellen participated as well. We won't have results of the event until later, but that isn't too important anyway. There were probably at least 100 other participants in the duathlon. 75% of them were fairly serious competitors with fancy road bikes and flashy spandex. About 20% were there just for fun, and then about 5% of us were total slackers. I rode my mountain bike, and I had to do some repair work on my helmet which hadn't been worn in over 6 years. My repairs involved replacing some of the inner padding with a cut-up can coozie. (you might be a redneck if...) Anyway, I apparently didn't pace myself too well for this event. I started off about mid-pack during the run. I kept my pace up throughout the run and probably used up too much energy. When I got on my bike, I decided to take a breather and coast a little bit. I was quickly passed by numerous other riders. The course was fairly hilly, and my mountain bike didn't allow me too much momentum to carry me back up the hills. I gradually fell toward the back of the pack, but I didn't care too much. There was one other guy there that I knew from work. He weighs a few pounds more than me, but he apparently runs and rides quite a bit. I subconciously set a goal to finish before him. With less than a mile left (and one heck of a hill), he passed me. I didn't let him get too far ahead of me, but I tried to save some energy for the upcoming hill. I did manage to pass him at the top of the hill, but we stayed neck and neck until the finish line. I gave one last push on the homestretch and barely finished before him. I did feel like I was going to lose my lunch shortly thereafter, but I managed to keep it together. I didn't realize so many others had passed me on the ride, but apparently I was one of the last 10 or so people to finish. Oh well. I was feeling good to finish before dark. Amy, Ellen, and Chris finished shortly after me. On my way home, the sunset reflecting on the lake was just begging me to take a picture. I was still shaking, so this may not be the sharpest picture. UPDATE: If you are interested in seeing the results of the race, you can find them here You'll have to choose the "2006 DuSeries Race #1 May 2, 2006" from the "RACE RESULTS" drop down list in the upper left hand corner of the page.
Miles Boyer > 07-21-06. Come to Daddy. I'm sure someone else could think of a better caption than this. This is actually a last minute idea that I just happened to come up with tonight. It was getting late, and I hadn't taken a picture all day. I had my camera in my hand and was looking around the nursery for an idea. I thought it might be clever to have a baby's perspective for a photo. I have several other ideas with a similar setup, but this is all I had time for tonight. I would like to include both Kate and I in a similar picture, but Kate had already gone to bed. I'll have to enlist her help tomorrow. Another idea is a picture of me pointing a camera down in the crib. (this may even turn into a Multiple Miles cloning experiment) I could also envision a huge crowd gathered around the edge of the crib.
Miles Boyer > 03-04-07. Camille's Gaze. The natural light from the window with a background in shadow made for an interesting photo I think. The depth of field may be too shallow, but I like her softly focused nose. I wasn't completely satisfied with just color or B&W, so I had to play with it a little. Anybody getting tired of baby pictures yet?
Miles Boyer > 09-28-08. Camille making faces while taking a bath.
Miles Boyer > 05-19-08. Black Widow- Perhaps living up to her name by eating her mate, or maybe she has just molted out of her exoskeleton. I've seen and taken pictures of a Black Widow before. The last one I saw had a definite hourglass on the underside of her abdomen. I didn't get a look at the underside of this spider, but she did have red markings on her back. After a little research (thanks wikipedia), I learned that juvenile Black Widows will have red markings on their back rather than their belly. Because the adult female black widow typically hangs and moves about its web upside down, and because the web is typically close to the ground, its hourglass is visible to most predators. Juvenile female widows spend a large quantity of time in search of an optimal environment. Once an optimal location is found, adult female widows often spend their entire lives in one place. Because juvenile females must first find this optimal location, they bear brightly colored marks upon their backs, so that they may be seen by predators when walking using its legs. Contrary to popular belief, the female only rarely eats the male after mating. When I first saw this spider, I thought she was eating something. The more I look at it, the more I think she had just shed her old skin. What do you think?
10-29-08. Pumpkin Portrait.

We carved our pumpkins this evening. Camille was pretty excited about the whole process. She really wanted to poke holes in the pumpkins using the safety carving tool. Unfortunately her pumpkin was rock hard, so the safety carver wouldn't work. It was all I could do to jab a knife into that thing, so I had to settle for a simple design. Camille did have fun playing with the pumpkin seeds and slime.

After we finished she didn't want to put her pumpkin down. She just wanted to carry it around all night.
Miles Boyer > 10-29-08. Pumpkin Portrait. We carved our pumpkins this evening. Camille was pretty excited about the whole process. She really wanted to poke holes in the pumpkins using the safety carving tool. Unfortunately her pumpkin was rock hard, so the safety carver wouldn't work. It was all I could do to jab a knife into that thing, so I had to settle for a simple design. Camille did have fun playing with the pumpkin seeds and slime. After we finished she didn't want to put her pumpkin down. She just wanted to carry it around all night.
10-29-08. Pumpkin Portrait.

We carved our pumpkins this evening. Camille was pretty excited about the whole process. She really wanted to poke holes in the pumpkins using the safety carving tool. Unfortunately her pumpkin was rock hard, so the safety carver wouldn't work. It was all I could do to jab a knife into that thing, so I had to settle for a simple design. Camille did have fun playing with the pumpkin seeds and slime.

After we finished she didn't want to put her pumpkin down. She just wanted to carry it around all night.
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