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Auburn State Rec Area, 2008

In early April 2008 we went out hiking in the Auburn State Recreation Area for Ken’s birthday. It was mostly fun, until we got lost. We met a rattlesnake and a lizard and quite a few butterflies. I also played with RAW files for the first time.

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New Drawing (Strapped)

I just seem to like drawing John Simm in bondage gear. Here he is as the Master in Doctor Who. Check out that confident smile; the balance of power has already shifted and nobody else has even noticed.

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Brunch at K St, 2008

This looks like it was when Laura had the idea to have a girls-only brunch. I don’t have much technically to say about this set except I agonized over white balance for some reason. I can’t help thinking of Pan’s Labyrinth. I’m sorry, Laura. Jack, plain and tall (and proud). Casey kind of looks like […]

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Arizona Twilight, 2005

Hey, what’s this, Ansate? Why, it’s a re-scan of an old negative with my new Epson Perfection v500. Lovely as it is, the Epson decided that it needed to help me a little too much with color correction so this one took a while to approximate the original. Which, by the way, looked like this: […]

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Davis Greenbelt, Spring 2008

Ken and I took a bike ride and I brought the camera. Read on for blossoms, geese, Trike Dog, and a flock of robins.

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Train Walk / K Street (2008)

Some time in February or March I decided I was going to take a walk by myself and just photograph things as I happened across them. Partially this was more testing and practicing with the Rebel XT… but this is also when I first made the decision to quit grad school and go into art […]

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Ducks, ducks, geese (UC Davis Arboretum February 2008)

Checking out my new camera in 2008, using the arboretum at UC Davis as my testing ground.

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Sacramento Zoo, 2008

Our first and probably only visit to the Sacramento Zoo with Sara in 2008. I had my zoom lens, which was handy, but all the fences were not 😛

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2008 camera testing

Here’s some of the initial pics I took with my Canon Rebel XT just after I got it, early 2008. None of them are tremendous works of art, but I like them:

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Explorit 2007

I found this set I never uploaded from my old camera! Here’s pretty much the only time we went to Explorit, I think, back in 2007. Explorit is sort of like a small-scale Museum of Science, right in Davis.

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