I finally got round to posting up some of my photography from our vacation in Rome in 2007. We had a fantastic time in Rome, and saw lots of wonderful sights. I hope you enjoy some of the pictures!

Included in Day 1 is pictures of our rented apartment, and the Colliseum.

Meredith at the Colliseum

Included in Day 2 is pictures of The Holy Father, and art at the Vatican Museum.

St Peter’s Basilica

Included in Day 3 is pictures of the interior of Basilica of St Peter.

Interior of St Peter’s Basilica

A link to all the pictures on Shutterfly.

For our wedding anniversary this year, we visited San Antonio.

Some pictures from the trip are online at Shutterfly.

I also made a nice picture of The Alamo at night, which can be seen here.

Buy a Print of The Alamo.

I ran across some old scans of some butterfly pictures I’d done as a test of my Nikon F3, PK-13 macro attachment and Nikon SB-13 flash unit. Here is my very favorite image from this batch.

I’ve posted the full resolution scans up on Shutterfly who can fulfil print orders up to 20×30″ at very reasonable cost.

I have some great photography sitting around in various boxes of slides and it’s about time some of it found a wider audience. I’m looking forward to catching up with some of my old pictures.

Well, somewhat earlier than we expected, Meredith saw her first hummingbird. We had a great time watching these little guys last year, especially when they would chase each other around the feeder, and in and out of the trees over the garden.

The photograph was taken with my Canon S30 point and shoot, which is why I couldn’t get zoomed in far enough to get a decent picture. Hopefully this year, with some better equipment, I should be able to get some better shots.

Here’s a great little hummingbird page, put up by Donald Berger. It has the expected dates for hummingbirds in Houston, suggested plants and flowers and feeding tips.

Had another day of yard work today. The last few weeks in Houston have been quite wet, and it’s hard to get an opportunity to do anything to the garden.

Anyway, today we managed to get some weeding in the beds, and get the lawns all mowed and nice.

Somewhat against the advice of Meredith’s mom we hit the local pawnshop and bought a little $60 gas mower. Yard crews cost upwards of $100/month, and that’s only when you can induce them to actually show up, so the mower will have paid for itself just after mowing the lawn just a couple of times. If it lasts the summer, then we’ll think about getting something better next year.

Meredith managed to start the mower, and enjoyed a brief ‘mow’ around the backyard.

I got to play with my camera again this morning to take a picture of my fiance’s new engagement ring.

Click my Paris Vacation Pictures to see my new javascript-powered slides.

I will blog this as an article pretty soon, but for now, just click the link to enjoy a random set of slides each time you load the page.

Also, the backgrounds used for the slides are selected by the javascript code and poked into the DOM depending on the orientation, portrait or landscape, of the image.

I used quite a few different resources whilst implementing this, but the main inspiration was Eric Meyers Project 2 in the excellent ‘More on CSS’ book.