Have I mentioned that I live in Berkeley?
I’ve been meaning to do something with this ratty filter guide that came with some filters I bought a long time ago.
The filters are long gone, but I’ve hung onto this guide since, passing it from camera bag to camera bag. It’s damn near illegible now, so I figured it was time to get it into electronic format, the way the kids like it these days.
Took a trip down to Ano Nuevo State Reserve to see one of three places in the world (all in California) where these seals come to mate.
[Chicago Public Radio’s homepage](http://chicagopublicradio.org/) is featuring one of my photos this weekend…
Look close, and you can almost make out some people coming down the hill.
I’m selling a scanner and computer, if anyone’s interested. Sorry, no shipping to Guam, no birthday presents for your lawyer in Zaire, and no trades for goats.
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Epson 4870 Photo Scanner + Silverfast Ai + Doug’s Medium Format Holder: $375SOLDApple PowerMac G4 Dual 1GHz + 1.5gb ram + 256mb video + SCSI card/HD: $1300SOLD
I’m a little late getting my photos back from xmas-time, so it’s Christmas in January.
Since my memory is fading fast and hard, I think it’d be good for me to recap what happened last year…
- Had a small show at Landmark Arts Gallery in Chicago
- Started Treemeat.com, reinvigorating my love of photography
- Picked up a Hasselblad 500cm and started shooting medium format film, reinvigorating my love of good photography
- My parents merged their companies, Riverbend Timber Framing (site by me) and Insulspan, with some of our [neighors to the north](http://www.pfbcorp.com/), after 26 years of working their asses off. This brings them closer to actually being able to retire, and makes sure that I won’t be able to get my sawdust cleaning job back.
- Left my job at the company I helped start three years earlier
- Moved to San Francisco, finally catching back up with Michelle after she ditched me and Chicago for warmer climes the summer before.
- Started Elevated Works a small (as you can get) web design company
- Partnered up with some old friends, in order to take over the design world
- Michelle’s dad went in and came out of the hospital, Big scare, big relief.
- Moved to Berkeley, CA. Was forced to grow my beard longer.
Wow, nothing like putting what seemed like a significant year into a list like that to make it seem like nothing much happened.
Finally made it home, no thanks to BART (who would ever need a ride home from the airport after midnight?). I went back to the home/heartland of Michigan for Xmas and spent a good portion of the time there falling on my ass trying to snowboard, then headed out to the middle of yon nowhere to party with our great friends Stephen & Kathy and puke in an outhouse.
I managed to take some pics in between, but since no one else thought today was a workday, I won’t be getting them back for a few more days. I also don’t have any of the kick ass presents I got from people, as I couldn’t be bothered to remember to bring them with me on the plane so they’re being shipping behind me, which is just as well, since I need a few naps.