24 Jul 2008

Costume Portraiture

24 Jul 2008

RPFS - 2008

24 Jul 2008

RPFS - 2007

24 Jul 2008

Old Fort MacArthur Days - 2008

21 Jul 2008

Casting Call

13 Jul 2008

Old Ft. Mac Days pics have been uploaded!

24 Jun 2008

Photoblog

I’ve started a photoblog over at http://aristonphotog.tumblr.com.  It is a simple collection of only what I consider to be my best and favorite pieces.  Comments are welcome, simply click on the small + symbol that appears when you mouse-over and image.

Also, all images are Copyright Ariston Collander Photography and may not be reproduced or re-used for any purpose without explicit permission from me.

12 Jun 2008

Opera 9.5 - Loving It!

I’ve been the kind of guy to want to bounce around between technologies just to see what the latest and greatest can provide.  Having never really settled on a browser I’ve had the opportunity to experiment and discover the benefits of each one I come across.  Although I still rely on Internet Explorer (unfortunately) for some of my day-to-day tasks at work (we use SharePoint), for my general browsing I’ve been back and forth between Flock, Firefox and now Opera.  With regard to speed, Opera 9.5 most definitely takes the cake.  Although it lacks the flexibility of Firefox regarding addons, and Flock regarding social networking integration, being able to fly through pages and accessing them through SpeedDial is awesome.  I have discovered that posting to Tumblr is causing me a bit of grief so I’m going to post to the community to see if anyone else is having any trouble.  More later.

11 Jun 2008

Me.dium - Awesome extension for Firefox

5 Jun 2008

Why oh why

It’s mornings like these that make us wondering why we are who we are, or do the things we do.  I’m up early to help cover from my co-worker is off today and tomorrow.  Having to juggle two positions and two children is quite the challenge especially where we are now.  I have found that trying to maintain a peaceful demeanor becomes more difficult as the workload increases.  Granted it is all part of life and living, but damn it it’s hard.  I’m focusing on staying strong for the wife and kids, to show that life is good and we are happy.  It becomes a series of mental games. We can do it though, I know we can. I’ve got a funeral to go to this Sunday, maybe that will help with perspective.  I also have my Fellowcraft degree a week from Monday.  Taking in more Masonic knowledge and experience will definitely help.