the one parking lot:

etc.

that time we went to kelly point park...

so, it's been a while. I think wang was also there? and I wanna say... somebody else? maybe not, but I thought there was five of us? anyway, miguel, emily, wang, somebody maybe, and I went on a ride, on a nice day. it was really pretty. and we went to kelly point park. yup.

continuing with my favorite parking lot to take pictures from:

I started this here: http://wizardactivephotographyclub.blogspot.com/2011/03/work-parking-lot-exhibit.html basically, I think the view from this parking lot is top notch. I sit here, reading doctor who, and occasionally decide that it's pretty enough to put down the book, get out of my cab, and take a picture. this is actually one of my favorites so far.

hawaii

this is what hawaii (oahu) looks like. honolulu, then the north shore. it's really damn pretty. I don't think I'll be going back any time soon, but I'm really glad I went.

meanwhile, back in hawaii...

it apparently took me a long time to finish up one of these rolls of film. I blame it on the fact that it was with my voigtlander, which is a hell of a nice camera, but as it doesn't have a fine manual focus, I didn't shoot nearly as much with it. at any rate, amy, one of my fine and wonderful hosts in honolulu, at the beginning of the roll, all washed out.

mal and zach go thrifting in mcminnville

some highlights from a successful thrifty thursday:

the work parking lot: exhibit a

there's this parking lot that I sit in when it's slow at work. I read doctor who books, and listen to the radio, eat lunch sometimes, call my parents. you know, the things you do when sitting in a parking lot. I love the view, so I've decided to document it. here's what the voigtlander had to say about it. I didn't keep track of the dates the pictures were taken, but some time about early february.

brodeo

the man, the myth. there's little I could say about mike that this picture doesn't say. real good dude, real good stash.

kendra

kendra came to visit, from buffalo. I think this might be the only picture I have of her, which is weird, but whatever. anyway. kendra is amazing. she's mostly a whirlwind, and this time she was really muted, and it was a good visit, where we just talked for hours. I wish she lived on the west coast so I could see her more than once every five years.

robin

robin was probably the only person properly dressed for shooting guns on a snow covered mountain. luckily, she balanced the scales by showing up WAY hungover.

norther emily

my good friend norther just moved back to portland after being gone for a couple of years. I really wanted to take her out, bro-down, catch up on everything we've missed in each others lives, and have a really fun time doing it. so we jumped in my truck, headed to the wilderness, played in the snow, and shot a bunch of guns. if handing a girl with frostbitten hands a tec-9 isn't a great welcome back then I don't know what is.

eli

I was showing someone my blog last night, and some of those early pictures of eli blow my mind. I'm having a "they grow up so fast moment" and he's not even my kid. anyway, this dude's finally talking about comic books non-stop, which is what I've been waiting for since I met him. he's really rad, and next time I go over, hopefully his parents will let me watch cartoons with him.

natalia czajkiewicz

why so serious, girl? ha. hanging out with talia, always awesome. I think I got a salad? beats me.

brendan

I went up to seattle a couple weeks back to see brendan and arianna barrans. not just them, but a mostly them. these kids are the nicest hosts ever, have a really cute house, and are a lot of fun. this was what I can call the before picture, the day that followed involved a really awesome moped ride, an underpopulated show, getting shit housed and baffled by kids in the hall, and having every video game that I wanted to play break. ha. it was amazing. I have some other pictures from this trip from another roll, but here's brendan as we played spinja's in the morning.