Photography

Earlier this summer, I got a new lens and camera I have long saved for. What better way to test them out than to set the dogs of summer free?

Photos from the boating trip on Bass Lake with Garbe. Both of these photos are credited to Michelle.

I'm trying to get through more photos before the fall season saps my time and energy.

The first two are from early 2007 when Michelle and I visited her parents. There are two others at end of this gallery. Pokey is cute.

I also have a couple of Buster and Bitzi.

Last photos from our vacation to Portland and Seattle this summer - the good climbing photos.

I have posted the first (and worst) rock climbing photos from our pacific northwest vacation. The photos from Leavenworth (which I'm working on) are better. I blogged about the trip here.

The photo of Michelle was taken by Ildiko, I think - I was belaying at the time.

Another photo gallery from the July 2008 vacation that Michelle and I took to the Pacific Northwest.

Sadly, our photos from Mt. St. Helens mostly do not have Mt. St. Helens in it, because it was hiding. So if you really want to see it, I recommend going back to my gallery from 2 years ago.

Some details about our hike are available here.

I've been racing through the photos from last months' vacation and I have posted two galleries - photos from Tiger Mountain hike with Orf and some shots from grilling in Portland with Adam, Ildiko, Russ and Lisa.

Below, Omar and Jackson play with their tug of war rings.

Just had a pretty good weekend. Need proof? Michelle captured some

Kicked off Friday with some rock climbing with Michelle and Garbe. Then down to ma and pa to sleep in air conditioning and get up quite early to start landscaping work before it got too hot. Didn't take too long to get hot. Real hot. I drank as much as I could stand and still become mildly dehydrated. But we made some progress at turning weed gardens into nicely mulched areas with matting to prevent future weeds.

Quite a day - wore me down. But we had a dinner and watched 5th Element on Blu-Ray. Blu-Ray is a high definition DVD format that shows incredible detail, you really notice the difference in facial features in particular. Quite a pleasing display.

Michelle and I then returned home and turned in early.

Woke up the next morning and joined James and Autumn on a trip with Captain Garbe to a corn n chicken feed and an afternoon on Bass Lake in Wisconsin. Wow. After 3/8 of a chicken (oh yeah, fractions are cool again) and 3 incredibly tasty ears of corn later (fresh picked), I am less convinced of the natural superiority of Minnesotans to cheeseheads. Guess it just took some righteously good food for me to question my pro-Minnesota brainwashing.

But from there, we went on to a heavily overcast (and therefore, mostly deserted) Bass Lake. After a short rain shower, James and I did some tubing and Garbe carved some serious wakes on his wakeboard. Swimming in the middle of the lake in between. It was a good day. More photos to follow, I took the brand new camera and we got some excellent photos.

Wow. That was a good weekend. Now my shoulders are wasted. Incredibly sore, but I'm okay with that.

Photo of Miss Kimmi biking with TnT and a few other folks training for their triathlons. The whole gallery is available here.

Chanda notified me that a bunch of the photos were missing. I fixed it - The best photos are now available - check that last photo on page 5 and pages 6 and 7.