Thank you.

Most of you might know that my brother is down in Peru as a Student Missionary. Since he is on a different continent, acquiring me a gift for my birthday is quite challenging. Nevertheless, knowing how I'm a Jeep enthusiast... he went ahead and took pictures of various Jeeps down in Peru. That's really awesome! I was so excited that I went ahead and wore my Jeep shirt for my Birthday.

Here is the link to his flickr account:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87213767@N00/

Walking on Water

This past weekend Traci and I made a trip to Wallowa Lake. We had reserved a Yurt at the Wallowa Lake State Park and since no one travels in the winter, we pretty much had the whole park to ourselves. Surprisingly, the lake ended up taking most of our time since it was completely frozen. At first we were skeptical of how thick the ice was but seeing one guy ice fishing out in the lake motivated us to venture out further. It was quite exciting to reach one the buoys in the lake and take several pictures beside it. Before leaving on Sunday morning I had enough of a will to drive my Jeep on the lake, the pictures of my car are all from that moment. My mom, sister and Sarah (Traci's co-worker) joined us in this small weekend adventure.

A Sabbath Afternoon Walk

The more I use my Canon 50mm 1.4, the more I am convinced that carrying multiple lenses is simply ridiculous. Fortunately I only have one lens, nevertheless the more I use this lens, the more I find out how great of a lens it is. Except for taking off a speck of dust that my lens had, I didn't mess around with these pictures. I honestly think that the vignetting looks much more genuine when it comes from the lens. What do you think?

Anyway, on Saturday a group of us (Jimmy, Kevin, Drew, Darcia, Seth, Petra and her dog) went on a walk from Rooks Park to Bennington Lake. These sunny winter days are my favorite, the sun hangs over the horizon for most of the day, the sky is filled with a rich blue and it's warm enough that I can go outside yet it's cold enough that women cover themselves. It was a great day.

A Week from Today

On March of 2008, Polaroid announced the end of those iconic instant pictures. Sadly, the end of this era has passed almost unnoticed as many are unaware that those white-frame instant pictures are a thing of the past. I personally don't have any vivid childhood memories with Polaroid cameras, as a matter of fact I was able to acquire my first and only camera last summer. Nevertheless, it has always fascinated me seeing the film pop out of the camera and have the image magically appear within minutes. Last summer I had the opportunity to take my Polaroid camera to a goodbye party for a co-worker from Traci's work. When we all decided to take group pictures, everyone brought out their small digital camera's to capture the moment. The routine was the same, 1,2,3 and snap, however I was amazed that after taking a Polaroid picture, the camera received an applause. Imagine that, the oldest camera there and it received the most attention.

But anyway, why am I saying this? Well, I'm not one to proclaim the soon arrival of my birthday, nevertheless, with only a few packages of Polaroid film left, I can't think of a greater gift than a package of Polaroid 600 film for my birthday.

The picture above is of a few a cars I saw during my honeymoon, the date on it is not my birthday.
BHphotovideo.com still has a few left.