by Kevin Thom | Jun 22, 2015 | Featured, General, Personal, Photography
I drove half an hour and hiked 10 minutes through a pitch-black forest to see the fireflies in this meadow. Then I realized what a perfect night it was to photograph these dimly-flickering bugs. It was the night of the summer equinox. The sky was clear, the stars were...
by Kevin Thom | May 14, 2015 | Featured, Photography
Well, I’ve gone and done it. I’ve upgraded my Vision 2 Plus drone to the new Vision 3 Professional. For the past couple of days I’ve been putting it through its paces, trying to figure out what is new and different about it. So far, so good. The...
by Kevin Thom | Oct 12, 2014 | Featured, Photography
Laura Hollick and I were at it again, reaching for new heights in our latest photo/video collaboration. This time, we took a ride in a hot air balloon, which has been one of Laura’s life-long dreams. Our flight lasted about an hour and reached about 5,000...
by Kevin Thom | Feb 28, 2009 | Geeky, Photography
I can’t believe it took me so long to do this, but I finally got a second monitor. I bought a Samsung 245T, which has a nice IPS panel in it, which has good color and wide viewing angle. It goes nicely with my old Samsung 910T. I’m enjoying it so far! So...
by Kevin Thom | Feb 25, 2009 | Improv, Personal, Photography
Here’s an interesting speech by Elizabeth Gilbert, who wrote Eat, Pray, Love. She brings up some interesting points about creativity and how western society’s attitudes towards it have changed in the last few thousand years. She contemplates the difficulty...
by Kevin Thom | Feb 16, 2009 | Personal, Photography
I’ve been having fun with Twitter lately, using it to post the tiny things that don’t warrant an entire blog entry, but I still feel like saying. I was wondering about other uses of Twitter that would suit my life, and I was inspired by my friend...