friday night fun (zoe!)

sleepin' girl
Lots of pictures. Well, a lot of Lita. Notsomuch a lot of Ayleen 'n Zoe. Oh well. All of 'em here.

the end of mama ricottas

Reid
Today was my last day at Mama Ricotta's Restaurant. It went well. I took tons of pictures of everyone after my shifts. That felt good. Closure. Goodbye and good lucks back and forth to everyone. Some very cool interactions. All the Mama R pictures here.

negra baby shower

preggo
Ang & [mostly] Lita threw Aya an awesome baby shower today (at Lita's house). Too too cool. I had to leave early to go to work, but I still took tons of pictures. Here they are.

new kittehs!


Danielle got her two 12-week old kittens yesterday. They're brothers. Got to hang out with 'em for a few hours last night. They're awesome. Possibly, hopefully, their names will be firefox and winky. But Danielle hasn't decided yet. Took tons of pictures with the 10mm and the 85mm. I processed them all quite quickly, entirely using ACR (point being, I usually tend to send everything to PS for more editing after the raw step). It felt good.. getting faster. :) Good fun.

baxter & kings construction

well hello
Headed out to a couple of Rio's jobs to try to get pictures but no dice. Will need a ladder for both. After that, I headed home but ended up stopping and walking around taking pictures of the construction at Baxter St & S Kings Dr. Purty crazy. So here's today.

tuesnight breakfast

what a cute couple
We had breakfast for our Tuesday night get-together. Oh yeah. Pics.

looking through photo archives (forgotten treasures)

big smile
At Ang's request, was preparing a cd of photos for Halyna today. At first I only had a few but then I started to look harder and kept adding more stuff. Theeeen I started to come across some things that I'd totally forgotten about--pictures from Jordon's first and second birthdays, for example. Purty cool. Also, had a look at the few impromptu prego Ayleen pics I took a few weeks ago too (need to see her with my new lens soon). Anyway. Sadly these pics are mostly private to friends and family per request, but here's the link.

uptown walking + equinox drumming

sidewalk closed
Okay. Here's a question that I don't really care about the answer to. What's the difference between "uptown" and "downtown"? Is there really a proper way to refer to different parts of MYTOWN? ppffft. Whatever. I always call it downtown, and that's fine with me. Right, which brings me to the point. Got off work early tonight and heading downtown for the Trade & Tryon equinox drumming circle madness WITH my camera (and the 10mm). Decided to park a bit far away in order to get some quality time with the streets and buildings. And. I must say. It was. Pretty. Damn. Awesome. I was quite surprised at what I could do with iso1600. Verrrry very cool.

Meh. Getting tired, so here's the short version: I eventually arrived at T&T for the craziness. Danielle showed up a few minutes later. Took lots of pictures. Kelly, a new friend of Danielle's (from Sangati/Asana) showed up a few minutes after that with a friend (Katie). We drummed some. Four youngish, laughing/silly, probably-intoxicated guys showed up and proceeded to dance in and out of and all around the circle. It was pretty awesome. Afterwards, Kelly and Katie did a bit of yoga while some dude took pictures with a point and shoot from really far away (haha) and I did teeny bit of cartwheelin. Good times. Here them pics.

festival in the park

beautiful day
Went to the festival at Freedom Park. Oh-so-thankfully, many of the photos I took are throw-aways -- I was snapping with the camera hanging at my waist while walking around the park. Got to take a look at quite a good number of photographers' booths. Some great photos. Some great prices. Lots of not-so-great or impressive photos. And lots of ridiculous (my opinion) prices. It was certainly interesting... So yeah, here be zeh pics!