i forgot how cute she used to before she became the little terror she is today (although she has become very sweet again...) (and this one doesn't count, since it is an old picture)
YOUNG BABY DEE
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
358. LJ and LILY
LJ and LILY
so the best thing about working on Christmas In Washington (which shall henceforth be known as CIW) is catching up with old friends and making really great new ones.
LJ is this cuh-RAAAAZY girl who just so happens to ROCK. she lives in Alaska and is BFF's with Sarah Palin. no, not really. but she totally shoots moose from a copter. ok, well, she doesn't do that either. she actually works with disadvantaged youth out in the wilderness (they don't come from the wilderness, she takes them out into the wilderness so that they can learn life skills and how to step up their game, basically).
She and i totally snuck in to get our picture taken with Laura Bush (George was in Iraq that day), who was a very nice lady. we were introduced ("This is JT and LJ") to which she said "JT and LJ? I am LW" which totally struck me as wicked funny. anyway, nice lady.
After the show, LJ horrified the crap out of me (it involved this hot a cappella singing dude and the words "JT" and "you bend over", but i won't go into it) but the thing is, it was absolutely something i would have done had she not beaten me to the punch.
anyway, yeah, the chick rocks.
also in the picture is Lily, who is now 14 years old, which is crazy because i have known her since she was like 6 or something crazy like that. she also rocks. also, i am now officially old.
355. The BUILDING MUSEUM
The BUILDING MUSEUM
The National Building Museum is probably, structurally, one of my favorite museums in the city. every year i work on an event there called Christmas In Washington.
just look at those pillars!
Friday, December 12, 2008
More Tomorrow!
I have a bunch more pics, but i am wicked tired, so i will post more tomorrow. also, i am trying to figure out exactly how to do this whole photoblog thing next year, and i am going to try and make it more of a weekly picture thing (with at least 7 a week) interspersed with some writing and thoughts and stuff. but we shall see.
rock on!
354. BIRD TRIPTYCH
In case you didn't know, you can click on these and see a larger version...
The BIRDS
Thursday, December 4, 2008
getting back into it!
sorry, took a little turkey day break. new stuff coming shortly! and now i have a little site visitor thingie down at the bottom, and i can see how many people check out the photos, so it kind of helps me get my ass in gear!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
351. SWEET BABY DEE
SWEET BABY DEE
i feel like i take more pics of dex, so i am trying to compensate.
Monday, November 17, 2008
341. MARCH FOR EQUAL RIGHTS
so let me just state, off the bat, i am not a protest kind of person. i think a lot of them are pretty counter productive, pretty unorganized, and (i swear, i used to be less cynical) i honestly think most people are there for the wrong reasons. almost like they want to protest so they can say they protested, instead of actually having strong feelings behind what they are protesting. i think that a lot of people, after they protest, go home and stop thinking about what it was they just did. and i think this is a fairly recent phenomenon, because i actually think at one point people were really passionate about issues, and when they protested, it didn't stop when they went home. they fully believed in making a change. i just don't think people today have that same passion. i think they feel that if they want something, they can get it just by being loud. and if the change is slow in coming, or doesn't quite fit what they wanted, they pout about it. but that is it.
so, with that said, i went to the "national" protest against proposition 8 (and against it's passing in CA, along with the other ballot measures in other states that passed prohibiting a group of people from getting married or adopting children, which frankly, is the bigger injustice to me). as my friend keeps pointing out, the protest wasn't (or shouldn't have been) about not being able to get married, it was about equal rights, which i can get behind. to be honest, i would be happy if domestic partnerships or civil unions carried the same weight a marriage, in terms of rights and laws. i don't want to get caught up in the words, i think that is a mess that can be solved after the larger issue has been taken care of.
so i dragged myself to the reflecting pool and stood with thousands of people (reports vary between 5000 and 6000, but i can't find solid numbers) and marched with them for miles (seriously, miles) through rain and wind. i will say, it wasn't the worst thing in the world. and as someone who has decided to become a student of humanity, someone who studies people and the things around us by using my lens, it was pretty cool to see the passion in some of the faces.
i would be lying if i said that i still think some people were there to socialize. and when the rain started, there were a lot of people that took off and went home (no real judgement, just observation and confirmation), but the majority of people stayed. the most impactful thing to me was the support of people in their cars, driving around the city, trying to get places. they weren't honking to get people out of their way, they were honking to show support and to give a thumbs up in solidarity. which is a change that i don't think people would have seen in the old days of protesting. so it isn't all bad. people actually do care about things, even if the like to do it from the dry interiors of their cars.
MARCH FOR EQUAL RIGHTS
339. BRY POINTS
BRY POINTS
bryan's favorite thing in the world is the beach, so i think this is why this is one of my favorite pictures. (although i think bryan secretly wants to be a photogeek like me and marti, and he is probably telling us what we need to be taking a picture of...)
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
329. ABANDONED HOUSE
this is the first of a bunch of pics i took at an abandoned house at the outer banks. i am sure i have mentioned this before, but i am FASCINATED with abandoned places. they are very creepy/cool. anyway, so we found one on our beach trip and i dragged my friend marti over the fence and into the house. she was TOTALLY FREAKED OUT, even though when we had talked about trying to find cool places to take pics, she was all balls out about going into abandoned houses. her true colors totally came through.
ABANDONED HOUSE
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
324. DEER
DEER in the WOODS
DEER RUNNING AWAY
so i was about five feet away from this deer, after jumping out of the car and tiptoeing up to it, and another car came by and spooked it right as i started to shoot the close up pic...which still came out pretty cool!
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