Monday, October 6th is World Habitat Day, and I’m joining Habitat for Humanity to celebrate in a way that matters.

Habitat, as you might know, works with low-income families to build homes across the globe. They do an amazing job: over the past 32 years they’ve co-created housing for over 1.5 million people.

I’d love to invite you to help celebrate World Habitat Day by joining Habitat’s sincere plea, and asking the next President to do something about the tremendous housing challenge in this country and around the world. All it takes is a click.

Follow this link below to ask Senators Obama and McCain and/or your own senators:

If you become President, make the U.S. a world leader by ensuring that each of us has a place to call home, not just in the United States, but around the world.

Because there are options! Our next president could urge Congress to increase assistance to American families in need of housing through the new National Affordable Housing Trust Fund, and could increase U.S Foreign Assistance for housing and slums. Habitat for Humanity is a wonderful start, but if we’re going to make a difference, we need more help than they alone can provide.

So please (please please!) join Habitat for Humanity in recognition of World Habitat Day 2008, as we raise our voices and take a stand with the millions in need of adequate housing in cities, towns and communities in the United States and around the world. All those messages add up, and with your help, I know we can make a difference.

To warm beds, strong houses and beautiful hearts,
Dominic.

I wanted to make you aware that I have not disappeared off the face of the earth. Instead I have been working diligently on my new Photography website. Since it will be taking over the main shutternick.com domain, my blog will be moving to http://www.shutternick.com/Blog. Please update your Bookmarks, links, and other directory information. I should also note that because of the amount of spam received lately I am making it required to register in order to comment on my blog. Sorry…

Here is the newest addition to our family.

Tonight we will be experiencing a blue moon here in the States. Here is a photo I took last night (with a blue filter to fake it).

Happy howling!

I have started my coursework with the NY Institute of Photography. The first project required that I use some old fashioned methods of capturing speed, using selective focus, and using hyperfocal distance.

Here is what I came up with this week to apply the principles.

So we never made it over to Fire Island. We had a couple of friends come out to our place and join us for a shopping spree at the Riverhead Outlets.

Banana Republic had an amazing sale which Michael and I promptly took advantage of.

I recently tried out using Adobe Lightroom. It is a wonderful piece of software that allows you to import photos, “develop” them, and then share them via print or the web. It has a wonderful method for managing photos based on a pretty quick database system. The challenge for me now is that I have thousands upon thousands of photos in various locations. I need to find them all, figue out how to import them and assign them to appropriate categories.

This could definitely be a full time job.