Kyle Ellman

First Time in Seattle

Kyle — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:34:38 +0000

A few weeks ago, I drove up to Seattle with Lacy and her family to help her move to grad school. It was a long drive, but a good one.

Here are some photos from Seattle.

The Puget Sound

Pike Place Market. Oh wow, oh wow.

If only I could be as talented as one of this guy’s feet.

We ate a Crêpe.

Olympic National Park

I know what it looks like, but she doesn’t actually make me uncomfortable. I’m just squinty.

Sometimes, strangers are helpful to keep around to hold cameras.

Seattle

Kyle — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:14:16 +0000

Last monday, I started driving up to Seattle, WA with Lacy and her parents to help her move in. She is about to start the Counseling Psychology program at Mars Hill Graduate School. We got there on Wednesday. I’m now sitting in Denver International Airport during a layover on my way to Kansas City.

Seattle is wooing me. A great, environmentally conscious, diverse city with great public transit sitting in the shadow of mountains. Most impressivily, Mt. Rainier.

I’ve got some photos, but I gotta go stand in line to board the plane.

Possible Future Project

Kyle — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:39:55 +0000

Someday, if I own a small business, I already know how I will handle taking payments. I know it’s super nerdy, but I’m okay with that, and I need to get it out of my head and written somewhere.

Square is wonderful system that allows small business owners to receive payments easily using mobile devices. And I recently learned that iPhone/iPad apps can be built to interact with other apps. I would build a lovely in-house app that would serve the business’s needs, and then interact with the Square app to handle payments.

I know it’s nerdy, but I like it.

Kyle — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:28:55 +0000

Lately, I’ve been ~~going~~ trying to go to the gym in the morning three times a week to reduce my chances of future back problems. And so I don’t look like this kid when I’m in my mid-twenties. But I hope to feel like he feels in that picture. I think he needs a cape, or at least a towel tied around his neck like a cape.

Getting up early is really hard sometimes. Especially when I go to watch DVRed LOST with friends later at night and then do something else, like write, like tonight.

Time for sleep.

201

Kyle — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:48:08 +0000

Last week, I had the pleasure of doing a photoshoot for room 201. For some reason, in this house of 40 college guys, a room will sometimes want a special photoshoot. Well, they had been asking me to do it all last semester, and we never had a time when everyone could. So, when we figured out that this past Saturday worked, I had to oblige.

So, here they are.

Owen

Danny

Trent

Charlie

Soul(less)

Kyle — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:54:06 +0000

I need to write more, I’ve realized. I need to make things. So much of what I’ve been doing lately involves processing things. Math, code, numbers, problems with one solution. I’m not too bad at it, and I’m really good at some of it. Sometimes I don’t want it, though. Sometimes it feels that what I’m learning to do has no soul. And as a computer science student, when I’m working hard and focusing on it, it’s not too hard to feel like I don’t have one either.

So, I have to thank God for words, people, photographs, food, drink, movies, plots, happiness, faith, pain, struggle, successes, and failures. Without these things, I’m left without a soul.

I think that’s all for now.

Miller Wedding Preview

Kyle — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:36:47 +0000

Ellen asked me to put these up today, so they’re not fully edited. But here is a breif preview of some of the shots from the Miller Wedding. (click on the thumbnails to see a bigger version)

Idea: Standard Recipe Format

Kyle — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:03:08 +0000

So, I was on my thinking chair (read: toilet) this morning and had a though enter my head: “What will reading recipes be like ten years from now? Will it be on a phone, a small computer made for the kitchen? Something else?”

I have a feeling that, to some extent, we will be reading recipes from a screen of some kind. If this comes true, wouldn’t it be nice to have some standard format in which a recipe is stored? I’m thinking a standard XML (extensible markup language) format I’d like to call RML (recipe markup language) that could be created, modified, and viewed on any sort of device, sort of like how there’s a thousand different ways to use twitter, but it’s still standard, except it’s a file rather than an online service. These recipe files could either stored on someone’s iPhone or other device, internet enabled or not, or simply downloaded onto a device whenever needed. Each device or application would be able to display each recipe consistently, independent of the source of the recipe file, whether it be from some online service or right on the device being used.

Any ideas out there?

New homepage

Kyle — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:47:58 +0000

This weekend, I shot a wedding, and gave out a few of my business cards. I realized that if those with the cards visited my site, they would be redirected to this blog, which would not be too helpful to someone seeking a photographer. So, I’ve replaced the redirection with a simple page that resembles my cards including a links to this blog, my flickr page, and a way to directly contact me. Hopefully it’s helpful.

I hope to put something better up sometime to replace everything on kyleellman.com once I have a a period of time when I don’t have too much to edit and not too much school work.

Terry and Tory

Kyle — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:13:33 +0000

A couple moths ago my old roommate, Terry, proposed to his girlfriend and our neighbor, Tory. And it worked. They are engaged. Yes. Congrats.