Até logo, Síster Sabin

Nathan Cashion March 15, 2011

My best friend is leaving to serve a mission. I am proud of her and so excited that she will be serving in the same city I did nearly 8 years ago: São Paulo, Brazil! But I will miss her like crazy. The past six months I've had some of the most enjoyable moments of my life with her, and I'm glad we were able to spend the last weekend together with her family and other friends.

Seriously, how gorgeous is this girl!

Grandpa Max & Grandma Gayle

The whole Sabin family together – may not happen for another 5 years!

Nossa! Somos modelos?

Que beleza! Ela é linda demais.

Tchau! Vai com Deus minha amor! Sentirei muito falta de você.
♥

NATHAN

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BYU Dancesport 2011

Nathan Cashion March 15, 2011

This past weekend was awesome! I got to spend nearly all of it with my best friend before she heads off on the adventure of a lifetime. Of course, she couldn't do that without having one last hurrah at Dancesport. After only 2 weeks of practicing with her partner, Heather danced beautifully and earned 3rd place in Pre-Champ Smooth.
Her brothers were also at the competition with the Pacific Ballroom Dance Company, which competed in both latin and standard medleys.

NATHAN

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Just announced earlier this week, TED will open their API which allows third parties to access the great talks from their conferences without having to visit their website.
http://blog.ted.com/2011/03/13/announced-at-sxsw-ted-to-open-api/
TED Talks are also available on YouTube and as a podcast on iTunes, but ever since I started browsing the TED site a few years ago and fell in love with the talks, I have wanted a way to sit in front of my TV and browse the tags and themes as if they were channels. Hopefully this will allow that dream to come true!

TED to open API .... AppleTV Please!

Nathan Cashion March 15, 2011

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In Apple's iPad 2 announcement yesterday, they finally decided to allow users the option to use the Switch to either Mute the iPad, or enable Rotation Lock.
But this is ridiculous. The Switch should never have been used to mute the iPad and there's a simple reason why. Press the decrease volume switch on your iPad for slightly more than a second. Notice what happens? It automatically jumps to mute. For me, this is the fastest way to mute the iPad since it can sometimes be difficult to grab the switch with my iPad case on.
Ah well. At least I now have the option to not do something stupid.

NATHAN : 

Stupid iPad Switch

Nathan Cashion March 3, 2011

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Portfolio Redux

Nathan Cashion February 26, 2011

I decided to go through some of my older images and re-edit them using the new Topaz Labs plug-ins I got while at WPPI. Nothing too special here. In fact, some of these may be downright over processed, but I wanted to choose some images that I liked and just try some things. I'm planning on choosing a few of my images to create prints to decorate my new condo soon.

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I spent the past week at the Wedding & Portrait Photographers International conference at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference was great – a bunch of the country's most successful photographers sharing their knowledge and recommendations for how to become a better photographer, including a full session of Ignite-style presentations (which really got me excited). But I also learned some things during the conference that really made me think and wonder... wonder about this world and how little of it I understand... how foreign people and their actions are to me...

The first day of the conference was actually somewhat discouraging. I saw all of this great photography and technique, but somehow it all seemed fake. These were amazing photographers using high tech tools to create incredible images... but images of what? A bride with four swords pointing to her throat. A model with strange make up and hair. A bride standing in a construction zone during the middle of the day. I don't get it! Why these images? Why these poses? Why all this artificial-ness?!

As interesting as these images were, they just didn't make any sense to me. There was no meaning behind them that I could relate to. Then, on the second day, I attended a couple of classes that were a breath of fresh air. Rodney Lough, Jr. is a well known landscape photographer who is often compared to the famous Ansel Adams. He chooses a different style of photography. Indeed, very different. He shoots using an 8x10 film camera (that's a sheet of film as large as a sheet of paper – compared to the more common 1 inch of film in your mom's old camera). When he treks to the backcountry of the most beautiful places on earth, he only has room in his 110 pound pack for enough film to take 5 exposures. After camping for weeks at a time, he considers it a success if he has 1-2 good images. What is more, Rodney's philosophy of photography is to create "a record of a real moment in time captured with the snap of the shutter, and not someone's vision of what might be." When I read that I realized that it fit closely with my idea of photography a few years ago.

Next, I attended a session with Patrick & Amina Moreau of Stillmotion, whose goal is to create a story for couples on their wedding day. Rather than provide a set of questions to their prospective clients about their wedding time and location, they save all those insignificant details for later and ask what their favorite cookie is and what they like to do on Sunday. That is real and sincere!

I was glad to find that among a sea of pretenders, there are still a handful of authentic individuals who embrace reality. And yet, even after these sessions, I realized that there was still a lot that left me uneasy. I began to hear talk of how much couples would invest in their wedding video, or how much a fine art print of Yosemite would go for, and I was shocked. Not only did prices start upwards of $3,000, but some would pay as much as six, fifteen, or thirty thousand dollars just for wedding pictures! Maybe it's my experience passing through the slums of Brazil and Mexico, or maybe it's just naivete, but I simply cannot understand what would justify spending that much money on a collection of photos. Aren't there more pressing needs to attend to first?

I often find myself believing, that as part of our human rights, each one of us has the right to exist peacefully in this world, in a state of minimal suffering. I'm not sure at what level "minimal" is met. But I am pretty sure that if a group of children in an African village are in need of clean water – and that that need can be met at the cost of $5 per person for life – then spending one thousand times that amount on a 3 minute video seems frivolous.

This video by Sarah McLaughlin expresses well how I feel.

I don't understand this world.

Nathan Cashion February 25, 2011

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Revisiting Blackpool (and an Aperture anomaly)

Nathan Cashion January 29, 2011

Chatting with Heather this morning reminded me that I have lots and LOTS of photos that I really should revisit. Here are a couple from my time in the UK last summer.
Heather and I in Downham, England, just outside of London.
A stained glass piece inside the Tower of London I believe. I don't remember taking this, and probably didn't think much of it at the time. But when I came across it while scrolling through my library, I thought it was fabulous.
And a strange little anomaly in Aperture while editing these. I had finished the one of me and Heather and was just finishing the touches on the stained glass image, when all of a sudden the preview went weird and reverted to the master image (with no adjustments) and must have pulled the ghost of the previous image from RAM or something. Never seen THAT before!

NATHAN : 

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Nathan Cashion

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