Hot Rod Hell

Great vintage art from a cool POV on a great overcast day.
Camera Stats: Nikon D80, Nikkor 17-55mm F/2.8, 1/100 sec, F/2.8, ISO 250, 28mm

Rosie's Bike and Blogging

Why does a low POV detail shot with selective focus get me so jazzed? I don't know, but it does. I like it. I am coming off a lot of time spent on my favorite photo blogs: chase jarvis, vincent laforet, chromasia, conscientious, etc. I started this blog as a way to direct some traffic to my photography site, share my day to day and journal a diary really. As of late, I am planning another blog. I'm not sure what this one will be. I really love blogs. Not all blogs, not even most blogs, in-fact only a very few blogs, but the ones I like I love, and find incredibly fulfilling. If you are a photographer and you haven't checked out the blogs above, you need to. Now. Seriously. Also, check out photoblogs.com too. To blog is to share, and to share is to live.
Photo details: Nikon D80, Nikkor 17-55 F/2.8, 17mm, ISO 250, F/2.8, 1/100 sec.

Gary's Vega

There is a tradition among my Dad and his brothers that when two or more of them get together they get in a car and go look at another car that one of them has just bought or wants to buy. Usually the car they are looking at doesn't run. I've been tossed in the back seat on this ritual for about 40 years now, and am just beginning to enjoy it! As with most things you never appreciate them until they are gone and my Dad will soon be without all but one of his brothers. This encounter was with Gary and his Vega, which he acquired free of charge, and pushed over to his friend Mitsu's house, who is working on getting running. Mitsu confirmed on this morning that Gary's car is F'ed up, (his words not mine) and that Gary will need to have some patience on this one. As I get older, it's these moments that I love and cherish the most, not simply because I enjoyed tagging along, but because it was a moment of happiness between a strained relationship, my Dad and uncle that is. My Dad said we were heading out to find Gary and bring him back for Thanksgiving for his mother, God rest her soul, and absolutely not for himself. That is the truth. I know that. I also know that she smiled when they smiled over that broken down Vega; and I smiled too. We all forgot about the past, and the future for a moment too. Things don't always end well that start well, Gary didn't stay for Thanksgiving, and Joe is heavy on all our hearts and minds right now.
Photo Stats: Nikon D80, Nikkor 17-55mm F2.8, 1/160-1/250, F4, ISO 320, wide end of zoom. Comments: I love the image with Gary and Mitsu blurred in the background, it shows their friendship and a nice detail POV from the Vega. I don't mind that Gary and Mitsu are out of focus, it is really better that way. It was planned that way too. I shot this: background in focus and foreground blurred just in case, but it is not as good.

Mt. Rainier from Yelm

A nice November sunset in Yelm, and a picturesque Mt. Rainier view. Juan, Brian and I had a great exploration ride near John's place.

Riding at Deep Lake

We had a nice trip around Deep Lake. We stopped a few times for throwing branches into the lake.

November Sunrise in Buckley

This is a set from heading to school the other day. No saturation added here! One is on Mundy Loss Rd., then from the circle at White River High School, and the last walking in the side door by the theatre.

TKD, B Starts Sparring

M is kicking high, and B is beginning sparring, and doing quite well!

Stuff on My Desk

This is an old lens that my Uncle Don used. I haven't used it, but it is pretty cool to look at.

Building Blocks

I'm experimenting with an effect in Photoshop that over-saturates around the edges of the photo. I like it, but it needs a bit more tweaking.

Carving Pumpkins

The night before Halloween!