My family game to visit last week so that Melia, Amanda, Audrey, Matt, and Kade could meet Parker for the first time and so that Mom, Dad, and James could see him and everyone else again.  It was crazy fun having everyone together in my neck of the woods.  This is the first time since my wedding that everyone has been together in San Antonio (everyone except Mike that is…we missed you).

Here are a couple more pics from the visit. Be sure to check out more on my Flickr page.

I recorded this clip of Parker “talking” this morning.  He was really happy.  Nothing beats the happy sounds of little babies.

I am so excited about the new apps showing up.  Here is a quick round-up of what I love so far:

• Remote:  Its free, and it works really well.  It reminds me of using Salling Clicker on my Windows Mobile phone back in the day.  It is a quick and easy way to browse your iTunes library and to control what is being played.  I am not sure, but I don’t think it supports proximity and I’m not sure if it will pause music on iTunes when a phone call is received.  I’ll update when I know a little more, but I love this simple little app.
• Super Monkey Ball: A pretty fun little game.  It takes a while to get the hang of controlling your monkey but once you do it means hours of addictive fun.
• Exposure:  I am running the free version of Exposure.  I think the only difference between Exposure (free) Exposure Premium ($9.99) is the inclusion of advertisements.  I’m fine with ads for now.  Exposure “puts Flickr in your pocket.”  It is a simple interface but can do pretty much everything that I want to do with Flickr except allow me to upload photos from my iPhone.  To do that you can still use the email to Flickr setting or use ShoZu, which works pretty well.  I spent a good time yesterday browsing “Explore” photos on Flickr and it was a great experience.
• Twitterific: I was excited about this one, and it doesn’t dissapoint.  It is in my dock replacing the Mail app, that’s how much it means to me.  Again I’m running the free version because I don’t really mind the ads right now.  The interface is much nicer than any previous installer.app applications.  I can’t wait for them to be allowed some sort of background processes so I can know when there are new tweets right away rather than having to launch the program for it to refresh.
• WeatherBug:  I love weather, plain and simple.  I am addicted to watching radar for storms and seeing current conditions.  I think it is a byproduct of growing up in Oklahoma, where there was pretty much always a little storm warning graphic in the corner of your tv screen.  This app is pretty nice, but it really is the only weather application I could find, so if something better comes along I might jump ship.  I don’t like that I can only add 3 cities.

That’s it on the apps I have for now.  I do have a few that I miss from my jailbroken iPhone that I would like to see in the app store soon:

• Last.fm mobile scrobbler.  I loved my iPhone updating automatically the tracks I was listening to to my Last.fm account.  Hope this one shows up soon.
• Netflix – simple I know, but it was a good way to keep track of and organize my netflix cue.
• Pool - a fun and addicting little game.
• VNC – nothing like being able to control my computer with my phone.
• WordPress blogging app.  Ok, so this wasn’t in installer.app either, but I really want to be able to blog from my phone easily.  I have searched the app store 3 times for “wordpress” already hoping it would show up.  Finally I thought I’d search on the wordpress.org forums and I found out that pretty soon a new iPhone wordpress app will be launching!  I’ll be downloading as fast as I can.

I was tired of just sitting watching tv or playing on the computer, so I grabbed my strobes and looked for something in my house to take pictures of.

These are some wild onion flower thingys that pop up in my yard whenever we get rain. I usually pick a bunch for Christina whenever they show up. I played around with different lighting schemes and even messed with CTO filters. The CTO filter stuff looked interesting but didn’t really fit this grouping. It made the walls look more blue than the green I was going for. I couldn’t figure out a way to get the green wall in our living room to truly look green. I like the grayish color that came out on these images though.

Strobist Info: 2 285HVs fired with poverty wizards. 1 camera left through a shoot through umbrella, the other high and moved around (sometimes right down on flowers and bare, other times aimed at the wall and snooted)

It’s up and running, and it’s beautiful. I’m addicted to my phone again.

I really want an office like this one day. Now all I have to do is move to Costa Rica.

]]> http://www.isenhowers.com/2008/07/flickr-friday-parker-and-his-cousin-claire/feed/ 0 http://www.isenhowers.com/2008/06/thompsonpoole-photography/ http://www.isenhowers.com/2008/06/thompsonpoole-photography/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:38:03 +0000 kyleike2 http://www.isenhowers.com/?p=310 If you’ve read this blog at all for even a short period of time, then you will know that I love really good photography. (I try to take pictures myself, with questionable results sometimes)  One of my favorite photographers has got to be Wendi Poole.  Wendi is the photographer who shot our wedding and recently started a new photography business with a friend.  I’m not sure how long her website has been up, but I just got a google alert on my name that directed me to a post on her new photo blog.  It is just starting, but I am sure there will be lots of good things to come.  If you are interested in photography or if you are in need of a great photographer in the San Antonio area I highly reccomend Wendi.

Be sure to read the post about her taking pics of my boy.

Uganda Water Well from Kyle Isenhower on Vimeo.

As a little extra, here is a little glimpse of what the After Effects composition looked like: