Labor Day Weekend, Part I

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With the slightly cooler weather we have been getting in NY, Shio seems to be happier when playing outside. In fact, he even played with other dogs!

After spending an hour at the park, we took Shio to the farmer's market and got him cheese and fresh marrow bone.

He had a good day indeed.

Photos taken with Nikon D700, 24-70mm f/2.8G.

Reboot

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Sorry for the lack of new posts. Two months ago we were very excited to have migrated Shio's site to Squarespace.

While there were many things we liked about it, we ran into 2 key issues:

  1. Ting could not gain administrator rights to the site, and thus was not able to efficiently work on the blog. We asked tech support to help - there is no way around it
  2. We could not gain access to our content - unlike WordPress where all our content resides on our server. This would severely limit our flexibility going forward (not to mention the fact that we didn't have full access to our work scared us a bit)

As such, we took the weekend to basically migrate everything back onto our own server, running on WordPress.

While it was a painful process, we managed to add a few more tweaks to the site that we like - especially the sliding Twitter sidebar to the left there.

Hopefully it will be a while before we have to revamp the site again!

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"It's ok dad. I go to Apple Store wif you to cheer you up!"

Photos taken with GH2, M. Zuiko 12mm f/2.

Walk To Atlantic Avenue

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This morning, Shio met up with his friend Feta and took a trip to Atlantic Avenue. It was a beautiful day -- although a bit on the hot side for Shio.

Brooklyn Heights is really a beautiful neighborhood -- one can find many things to photograph.

We bumped into Tommy on our way. THe pups had a brief get-together.

By the time we got to Atlantic Avenue, it was starting to get really hot...

We decided to head back to Pier 6 to eat the brunch that we bought on Atlantic Avenue. Shio and Feta were happy to get a break in the shade as well.

On our way back, the inevitable happened... I had to carry Shio for a few blocks to give the poor boy a break...

I bought Shio a treat to reward him for putting up (mostly) the heat.

"This is more like it guys. Air conditioning, marrow treat... I forgive you -- for now."

Photos taken with GH2, Voigtlander Nokton 25mm f/0.95.