I am what I do: Documenting my creative endeavors
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1177 BC – The Bronze Age Collapse
When one studies the ancient world, one of the most fascinating eras is the bronze age. There was a complex trading network between the civilizations around the Mediterranean trading goods. It was very modern in the sense that the separate civilizations were all able to trade with one another so each could get the resources…
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Alexander The Great’s Speech in Greek!
Naturally, as I studied Ancient Greek history, I became obsessed for awhile with Alexander the Great, and read various books about him and the hellenistic age that he ushered in with his conquests. There is a video on YouTube of Alexander The Great giving a speech, and it’s in spoken Ancient Greek! I revisit the…
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A Classical Education
In 2020, I decided that I wanted to give myself a classical education. I had this feeling that a modern education was only enough education to get someone a modern job. Not an education for a person and their life as a whole. I wanted more. to know more. To understand more, on a deeper…
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Learning Greek: Easy Greek
One of my favorite resources for learning is YouTube. Everything is on YouTube. Now, one of my reasons for learning Modern Greek is to understand how real people speak it, what they sound like, what if any modern slang they use, etc. In the end, my main reason for learning Modern Greek is so that…
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Learning Greek: Where to Start? Probably the alphabet.
I wanted to learn Greek, but I did not even know the alphabet. I felt like a small child. When I need to find a tutorial for anything I am learning, the first place I look is YouTube. So I searched YouTube for videos on the Greek alphabet. This one, with the Koine pronunciation, I…
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Teaching myself Greek
According to my account in Duolingo, today I reached a 840 day streak. It was 840 days ago (as of this writing) that I decided to go all-in and learn Greek. My actual goal is to learn to read Ancient Greek. But that is a big, big goal. I did not even know the alphabet,…
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I was asked to photograph my friend’s wedding…
I work with Chee Yi at Expedia- we write Swift code for 8 hours every day and often discuss other topics and hobbies we have. We both have a love of photography. He had been planning on getting married to his long-time girlfriend Zen-Zi, and they decided to elope at the local county courthouse. He bought a…
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Kirby Puckett Statue at Night
I just noticed today that my photo of the Kirby Puckett statue outside Target Field was used last year in an SBNation article about baseball park statues! http://www.sbnation.com/2013/9/12/4717256/major-league-baseball-ballpark-stadium-statues
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Vikings VS Patriots at TCF Bank Stadium
I had seats in the first row at the recent NFL football game between the Minnesota Vikings and the New England Patriots. I brought my camera and took as many shots as I could of the action since I was so close. I did my best impression of a sideline photographer. The game was at…
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Taking photos under a bright sun
You may think that you do not want the midday sun behind your photography subjects. With the sun behind them, they would be in shadow. But then if you put the sun behind you and have your subjects face the sun, this photo is what you get. It was impossible for anyone to keep their…
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