Sully at the Park

A soft portrait of my baby boy from last week when it was so chilly. He's got such wonderfully chubby cheeks!

Moving Out

A macro I still love. Every picture tells a story and I like what this one was saying and still do.

Honeybee on Passion Flower

Pumpkin Patch Color Accent

Taken on Sunday's trip to the local pumpkin patch to pick out our victims for this year's carve-fest. I set the camera for color accent, selected the orange of the pumpkins and shot a few snaps. This one ended up being the best of the bunch and I really like how the orange "pops" in the photo.

I will have to play around with the color accent and color swap settings some more to see what kind of neat trick images I can generate.

Happy Halloween!

Check that last post, this is my best pumpkin I've ever carved. It came out beautifully and is really pretty scary looking in the dark with the orange glow behind it.

It looks alot less mean in the daylight though.

My Best Pumpkin Ever

Halloween is coming which means more pumpkin carving and I'm excited. I also get to play with my smoke machine and will get the stereo thumping out creepy music to freak out the kids (but not too much!).

I didn't used to like Halloween so much but I'm warming up to it as I get older and my children start to grok what its about and how much fun they have dressing up.

Meditation from a Tomato Cage

This was more of the fun from Saturday when Grady found the tomato cages and thought they were a great toy. He looks like he's praying and stayed like this for about a minute. The video of him standing up in this and turning around and around is pretty funny too.

That kid is just an incredibly funny and inquisitive little guy, It was great fun to watch him work through how to get in and out of the cage. Great and amazing really. He's growing up so quickly that sometimes I just want to hold him and keep him just the way he is right now.

Cage Baby

This was totally of his own doing, I happened to have my camera and snapped a few dozen photos and a couple of short videos. He thought the tomato cage was a great toy.

He's such a sweet and wonderful and funny little boy. Sometimes I wish we could keep him like this forever (not in the cage, the inquisitive and funny little guy part).

When we went to Ikea and he got out of the stroller, he was barrelling through the store like a bull in a china shop. And his run is a bouncing gait that just makes me smile thinking about it. He's a great kid!

MiniCards from Moo

I got my free pack of MiniCards from Moo.com via their promotion for Flickr Pro members. today and they really are pretty neat and pretty and cool and all.

In retrospect I wish I'd chosen some different images but overall I really like how they look and really like the info on the back.

Now I just need to figure out what to do with them.

Nasty from Above

This big ol' spider nearly dropped on to my head last night when I took the veggie waste out to the composter. And then it sat and let me snap a bunch of pics of it.

It is just under two inches from tip to tip and really looked mean and nasty.

I did not squish him though. He's far too valuable in helping to keep the fly population under something resembling control around the composter.

You Got a Problem?

Almost a year ago now, Grady hasn't changed too much in the last year. He's grown up and added many new words but he's still the same wonderful and cute little kid.

Art Concept Photography

Blind Camera Lets You Take Other People's Pictures

This art project by Sascha Pohflepp combines a Sony Ericsson k750i with a black case to let you take other people's pictures. The design works by recording what time you click the button to "take" a picture, then later on connects to the internet to scope out shots other people took with that same timestamp.

It takes a few hours/days for people to upload their pictures, so you won't be seeing anything instantly. But it's kind of neat, in a voyeuristic way, to what other people were up to when you were out being a dork using a camera that doesn't really work.

Now This is Hot Photography

A good photograph is both expressive and imaginative. This is both, in spades and with a big extra measure of SPROING tossed in for good measure.

Its sexy without being trashy (or overly trashy) and damned if I don't just love it.

Luminescent

Not much to add here, I just think this is a pretty nice picture of a flower.

Nande Air Flop

Because it needs to be posted again from time to time, just to remind myself why I so thoroughly love my dog. She's gotten alot bigger since this was taken but her playfulness and fun hasn't diminished in the least.

She's a wonderful companion and friend and I wish I could more easily spend my days playing with her and my two boys.

Someday.

Beating the Heat

Down the way from our hotel was this impromptu waterpark and this little boy was having tons of fun playing in the water. I wish we could have joined him since Reno is so hot and dry. It was nice to get home our evening fog and chill! And Grady really wanted to join him but was such a good listener when I told him that we couldn't!

Another Coolio Widget from Flagrant Disregard

My friend I found this on thinks she's out of the loop because its been out for a bit now. But I'm so far out of the loop, I couldn't even tell you which direction the loop is in. Oh well, that's what kids, a commute and a lot of work will do for your in-looped-ness.

Better later than never though!

My Cute Goes to 11!

And some days his cute even goes to 12. My little boy is just too darned wonderful for words sometimes.

Of Course Its All About Him

From today's shopping/fun trip south to Monterey and CostCo. We went to Dennis the Menace Park in Monterey and had a blast there. Its a great park with all kinds of neat stuff for kids to play on, climb up, slide down and explore. They even have a little maze for the kids to explore in!

The moment I saw this metal tunnel with the slide off of it, I knew it would be a cool spot to snap some pics of my little boy. And I was right.

We had a great day, the last before I start back to work tomorrow morning. I will miss all of the extra time I've had with my family in this time off. But I will really enjoy having a paycheck coming in again!

Pressure

Pressure and time can break anything. An important thing to keep in mind when shit is getting you down, its just a question of how long you can hold out. Long enough to stand back up or not long enough and you get pancaked.

Learning How to Laugh

Sullivan at eleven weeks and learning how to laugh. He's a sweet little boy with a great smile. And his older brother loves him every night, he gives him kisses on his forehead and smiles from ear to ear.

I know it'll be some time before he starts rolling over and then sitting up and then standing up and walking. But I also know that the time between now and then will pass in the blink of an eye.

So I will make sure to capture as many of these moments as I can with my camera's eye.

Read Between the Lines

This is a shot from Grady's birthday party over the weekend. We rented a bounce house with obstacles inside for the kids to bash around on.

This obstacle was too tall for Grady to climb over but he went under plenty and then started to go through the middle. In this photo, he was trying to get his hand over the top so he could toss his toy car over. He was successful and it resulted in this subtle and funny shot.

We had so much fun it was just amazing. His smile and joy has been seared into my mind and it makes me happy just to think about how much fun he had.

They Do Not Come In Peace

This nasty looking fella nearly got me on my walk at the dog park the other day but he (or she) is only about an inch and a half across so I wasn't in real danger. But this little thistle looks mean enough to take on anyone or anything.

Thistle Flower

A close up of a new thistle flower from my walk with Nande at the dog park the other day. I love the burst of color they give an otherwise very green landscape.

Brand New Baby Boy

Sullivan Day Zero - Too bright and too dry.

Legacy

Splashing

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