This one’s from Powell’s cooking and crafts bookshop on Hawthorn(e?). Taken through the fisheye obviously, which has been enjoying something of a renaissance in my affections of late.
Dr.Sita’s in Tulane till Friday so Me and Atticus might finally get round to getting some pictures printed and sent to my beloved subscribers.
T’was a misty morning down by the river in Sellwood. Why matey here was fishing in a river that had clearly posted ‘contaminated water’ signs due to the recent floods is anyone’s guess though. I like to think the local council was paying him to provide ambience…
I’ll have to serialise this because I’ve got tons of work on… so how about Monday?.. Mario and Ange took the car and went to investigate the centre of town, I think, meanwhile I worked from home on all manner of lewis and clark related stuff. In the evening we went to see Glasvegas and Carl Barat (below) at the Douglas Fir,
Note to Mexicans heading to the Douglas Fir for a gig. Bring your passports, as national ID cards don’t cut any sway with the pig ignorant doorman. We felt slightly better about going back to get the passports when he almost wouldn’t let a roadie by with the thickest of Glaswegian accents I’ve heard. Other than that it was a fine old night, Carl played me favourite Libertines tracks and Glasvegas seemed to be labouring under the misapprehension they were in some huge stadium and took 2 hours to set up their floodlights, but they made a joyful racket. Nice tuneful scottish pop with beautiful lush guitar/synth soundscapes. Class.
I’ve finally uploaded my flickr stuff, and Mario has several hundred pix too… Stay tuned for an account of Tuesday…
This is from Friday’s jaunt to the seaside. Cannon Beach was looking as lovely as always, Haystack rock, if that is its real name, looked suitably emblemic, and the light, ah the light was golden and gorgeous.
And we’re back! Happy MLK day… This is Atticus leading the way around Tryon State Park on a cold morning (you can see his breath)…
Lovin’ it… Busy week ahead 😀
Having a fine old weekend with friends from Mexico staying. Here’s a quick pic from yesterday’s expedition…
Taken after stumbling into the street blinking and full after lunch at Bijou in Portland with Tanya and Jonathon.
The sleet had just stopped, the sun came out, and it wouldn’t hail for another hour or so… Good weather for Powell’s books, then bananagrams.
I tried this in black and white, but decided it worked slightly better desaturated.
We had another flurry of snow last night, about half an inch, but by the morning it was gone. While it fell I took this long exposure shot with a flash so you get the trails of the snow with some flakes ‘frozen’ by the flash.
Still haven’t been out with the camera properly, so here’s one from a month ago or so taken in the little park at the end of our road. Today I’m definitely getting organised with the prints… and hopefully this evening with the pints too.
We got back last night from our Christmas break in Los Angeles and I expected at least some snow to be left, but alas, tis all gone. I feel like I carpe’d the snowy diem though. I didn’t do much shooting in Los Angeles (there’s only so many angles you can take of Old Navy, Sears, Mervyns, Macy’s, Best Buy…) but shall be out and about in the next day or two to see how this mini ice age has affected the Oregonian landscape.
Sorry for the pause in posting too, especially after all the new sign ups. I didn’t want to broadcast to the world that the house would be empty so I just slipped away… I’ll be answering emails and getting your pictures printed and sent very soon. Thank you for your patience, and happy 2009, yo. 😀
Who knew that you can press your face into fresh powder snow on a car and you get an insanely detailed imprint. I couldn’t bring myself to do this to the dog so I tried it myself.
If we weren’t heading off out so soon I’d try for a fuller recreation of Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite…
Flash publishes a traditional meme at the end of each year. She posts the first sentence from the first post of each month from the preceding year. Here goes mine, and I’m going to make a comment after each one…
J: England was great, lovely to see all me nearest and dearest in person and share a pint or three. I shan’t leave it so long next time.
Can’t believe a year’s gone by without getting back 🙁
F: Well, what with having bought another car and signed a 12 month lease on our apartment, we’re here for the long haul.
So young, so naive
M: Yep the 3:17 vowel-consonant ratio means it´s Saint David’s Day again.
And it was lovely to catch up with Ian and Yuri and their kids
A: This blog’s been a bit abandoned of late more due to an overload of work and little time to update it but in brief, saw Carrie Fisher’s show Wishful Drinking last Thursday.
And blimey, it was bad
M: The problem with not posting for a while is that it builds a certain level of expectation that the next post will be somehow life-affirming and brilliant.
Then I went on to announce Sita handing in her dissertation. I really ought to consider newspaper style writing, most important bits first, details later…
J: I just passed the 10,000 photos mark on Flickr.
And I’m at: 11,290 items / 65,673 views, but who’s counting?
J: We interrupt this prolonged silence to recommend this course to you in the Fall Autumn… Check out the last professor on the Faculty link too… Sign up now!.
And who knew that 6 months later I’d have admin privileges to edit that very page…
A: Greetings from our latest ZIP code!
I’ve forgotten what Alameda’s zip was now… seems like a long time ago
S: According to Peter Trigg’s Calendar – “My kind of Somerset”, it’s the first of September, meaning we can look at a grainy picture of All Saints’ Church, Aisholt for 30 odd days
I shouldn’t criticise his calendar. I’m just jealous.
O: Posting direct from Flickr… Here’s Nostromoo’s 2nd batch of Welsh Cakes… and evidence of probably the first time anyone has printed my blog out on paper.
7 months after St. Dai’s Day, we were all getting our Welsh on…
N: I’m off to watch ‘democracy’ in action with DrSita in a mo…
And lo and behold, Obama was elected that very evening. Oregon had an impressive 86% voter turnout.
D: Word Magazine just published an advent calendar with links to videos and suchlike, I thought, I could do that:
Presenting Countdown to Xmas with ‘Cus
And a calendar was born. Hope you enjoy Day 24
When I get a chance I’ll do a first photo from every month type post too…
Not much in the way of technique here except try to keep the camera dry, try to stay warm, and try to keep moving… We’re at well over 2 feet of snow today, it’s still snowing… I made an igloo. Details, pics and details on where to find the video of it over at me blog…
Yeah, cheesy title I know. They don’t have it easy the squirrels round here, if they’re not being chased by Atticus, they’re under nigh on two foot of snow. I forget where, but I recently read that “squirrels are just rats with good PR”.
Also, thanks to Sunday’s publicity drive, I would like to welcome Amy to our small, but vital, community of people-who-get-a-picture-emailed-to-them-daily. Much appreciated 🙂 and if any other subscribees would like a signed photo postcard sent to them (by proper post) just email me which one you’d like and your address. Ta.
Did I say in my last post it wasn’t going to snow any more? I was wrong. Very wrong. We’re presently at about half a foot of quality powder. The footprints on the pond are from a dog, who had another go and ended up falling in and being dragged out by his owners.
Vignetting here comes from a mixture of condensation between the polariser filter and the lens and mystery settings that I couldn’t use my frozen fingers to control… I’m quite fond of it.
