other, photography

Practicing on a (newly acquired rental) violin in my room as the sun gets close to setting:

Sunshine and music

Shot with a D200, Zeiss 50/1.4

photography

Ilford XP2 Super. I like this film a lot, but it just doesn’t have the nice grain and tone of the HP5+.

All except for the beer-and-chips shot are from a day a few weeks ago when we spent the summer day helping Alicia get started painting her and Jon’s house (while Jon was on a business trip in Alaska–surprise Jon!). Don’t get me wrong, we did stay well nourished and hydrated while painting. A watermelon fight also took place, but I didn’t get any pictures of it; turns out it’s difficult to get good action portraits while dodging flying pieces of watermelon.

Brandin on the roof, but is he aloof?
paint scrapers sunbathing while the paint-scrapers were chilling
Trixie wondering why I'm holding that funny thing and telling her to sit instead of playing with her
Mailbox shot #1
Mailbox shot #2
Rainier and Tim's Cascade, yes the Northwest is in my blood (and was even more so after this great post-workout snack, I might add)