• Date: February 21, 2012 • Teams: Fair Grove Eagles VS Springfield Catholic Irish • Photos: 39 • Original high-res photos are available at 4928 x 3264 – contact me.
View PostPortrait Session: Thomas
Had the pleasure of taking senior photos for Thomas this past weekend. Graduating from Fair Grove HS, Thomas needed photos for the year book and for his friends and family, but didn’t have hundreds of dollars to pay. I took his photos for a very reasonable price in exchange for him getting the retouched photos [...]
View PostPrepared For Tomorrow’s MSU Graduation Shoot
Tomorrow is a big day for my family, particularly my wife, as she’ll be graduating from Missouri State University. She’s made it my goal for the day to get excellent photos of the pre-ceremony gathering, the commencement, and the after party at our house. I feel a little pressure because if know if I mess [...]
View PostTwo Photography Lessons I Learned Today
Today I learned a few important lessons in photography… 1) Make sure you have a battery in your camera I hopefully learned both of these lessons today, after failing both of them; resulting in me getting no photos at all at church today of our first choir performance, kids pizza party and of my son’s [...]
View PostNew Photography Equipment

Christmas came early for me at the Padgett household! It actually came at the same time as my birthday I’m now the proud new owner of a Nikon D7000 and a gorgeous Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 My wife allowed me to get such an extravagant gift because it was about time I stopped talking so much [...]
View PostBlogging = 6x the Amount of Web Traffic

Can you tell by the graph below when I started “actively” blogging on my site? If you guessed July, you’d be correct. Comparing Jan-June against July-October yielded an increase of over six times the amount of traffic per month – all thanks to blogging! Have you started a blog on your site yet? If not, [...]
View PostiOS5 Lock Screen – ?

I thought the iOS5 lock screen was supposed to be transformed into a fancy notification center? Well, I’m just not seeing it! I have the notification center ON, and several of the apps are set to “view in lock screen”, yet when I’m looking at the lock screen, all i see is this (see image [...]
View PostInstalling iOS 5 on an iPhone 3GS

iOS5 launched yesterday (October 12, 2011). Apple’s servers must have been swarming with traffic, and still, even today they are probably maxed out. I’m sure I’m not alone in saying that the launch was without hiccups though. It took several attempts to install iOS5 on my iPhone 3GS. Downloading the actual software only caused one [...]
View PostJavascript Snippets
The following are snippets of Javascript code that I had to work with today… Hide An Element Get Form SELECT Values Checkboxes: Are They Checked / Status? Verify Dates Multi-Line Javascript Alert Message
View PostSimple Robot Man
Simple robot man is built out of cardboard, three HS-55 servos, and a PICAXE-08M microcontroller. His head tilts back and forth and his arms move up and down.
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