This won’t be a very exciting blog, but my hope is it’ll help someone down the line. The situation: We have an older house, built in the ’70s. In April of 2024, we got a […]
Scenes From A Kayak
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Author Archives: Kippy Spilker
Bad Rag in InDesign
In researching this problem where my text seems to have a forced line break long before it should, I learned the term “rag.” When using left-justified (not force-justified) text layout, the pattern of where the […]
“Disk Error” when trying to open raw files on a server
If you’re reading this, you probably don’t need any further explanation of the problem, but I’m going to give you a bit anyway, in the hopes that the words I use will help the search […]
Africa – there and back.
Recently we took a trip to Africa. The primary goal was to kayak the Okavango Delta, for our next volume of Scenes From A Kayak. But while we were taking the time to get there […]
Comma Coffee – A place to pause
One of my favorite authors, Deborah Harkness, writes in her All Souls trilogy about a character whose third eye opens when she encounters someone or something that speaks to a place deeper within her. Ok, […]
Lake Alpine Resort’s new website
Can we just be the first to say it? WOW! When you visit the new lakealpineresort.com, “wow” might just be the first thing you say, as well. They have taken our photos and displayed them […]
We know how to cut the mustard.
Or, to be more precise, the cookie. A recent job for a customer who loves Nevada. Yep. We don’t do it a lot, but one of the services Geminai offers is designing and 3-D printing […]
Life happens in 360º
Recently, we invested in a 360º camera. After some practice, our first full “virtual tour” happened at Artsy Fartsy Art Gallery in Carson City, Nevada. I posted the individual images on our Facebook page, but […]
Drone Rules, and Why They’re Important
Imagine a society where only some drivers needed to have licenses, and those without licenses could choose whether or not to obey the rules of traffic. I’ll give you a second to let that sink […]
2018 Harvest Dinner fundraiser at Adele’s
Every year we are honored to be invited back to Cafe at Adele‘s in Carson City, to photograph the Greenhouse Project fall fundraiser – the Celebrity Harvest Dinner. This year was even more special, as […]