While I was back in town for a not-so-good reason, I’m glad I was able to hook up with my brothers and go fishing for a little bit. Grandpa, after all, would have wanted it that way. We didn’t catch anything, but I still thought it was fun. Holmes Lake looks nice these days.
What have I been doing? Well, I haven’t been doing a good job of taking photos this last week. I did a very short portrait session with someone at worked (their college needed a photo for a promotional thing), but for some reason, he didn’t want his photo posted everywhere. Short of that, I’ve been watering our (new!) lawn. I have a pair of shoes dedicated to this task because it gets a little wet.
Nila and I went to First Fridays yesterday at the Crossroads district here in KC. There are all kinds of entertaining street performers but a group called the Sonic Sidhe Tribe is particularly fun to watch. I’m still processing the rest of my ~150 pictures from the evening – I’ll post a link to the SmugMug gallery once they’re up.
Update: I've posted several of the pictures here.
Canon Rebel XT w/ 70-200mm f/2.8L IS
Taken at 70mm, f/2.8, 1/60s, ISO 400
We put together wedding invites this weekend… and by ‘we’ I really mean ‘Nila and her mom’. Meanwhile, I was busy taking pictures like this one :)
Canon Rebel XT w/ 50mm f/1.8
Taken at 50mm, f/2.2, 1/200s, ISO 400
This week we had our annual all-campus All-Hands meeting where we talked about stuff that I won’t bore you with here. After that, we had a “wine & cheese” celebration back at work where there was food, drinks, and yard games. Despite the name (and anyone familiar with these events already knows this), there’s an absence of wine and only a little cheese at these events. I had fun anyway, as it was a nice day out and I got to take a few pictures. My favorite is below, which I think is best viewed large on black.
Nila and I drove into a pretty nasty storm on our way up to Lincoln yesterday. This was what it looked like about 5 miles before we hit the rain.
Canon Rebel XT w/ 28-135 f/3.5-5.6 IS
Taken at 28mm, f/14, 1/50s, ISO 1600
This week was the annual Microsoft Night at the Zoo, where, strangely enough, we go to the zoo. It was a pretty good time; a little cold and breezy, but the kids there seemed to be having fun. My boss told me that these red pandas never did anything except sleep, but they were awake and…eating lots of grass. Jeremy shook his keys to get this one to look up.
