It's been tough to find the time to get out with the camera for a while. As it has been finding time to ride my bike (I finished the season about 1,000 miles down from my 'normal' miles) or even finding time to keep up with books and magazines I want to read!

Well, here I find myself with a week of vacation to use up, so have decided that the least I can do is get out every day and try to take a few pictures, then come home to see if I have anything worth printing. Here are two I got today, plus one from last week. If I stay on plan, I'll have more to post later in the week. If I can find the time...

	I've been driving past this scene all Summer and finally got a chance to stop for a photo. I found this guy in a fenced in area at an open air flea market selling cement lawn ornaments (along with a lot of.... well... junk). It will eventually be part of my 'through the fence' series that I'm putting together.
	A candid snapshot of this Obama supporter just as she was finishing hanging her sign. She was posing for a pic by a friend, but I grabbed this shot from a few hundred feet away with my 400mm lense.
	I'm kind of surprised this one came out. I saw the scene but didn't have my tripod (or the 60mm lense I prefer to use on shots like this) so did the best I could in low light hand held. I guess the 'VR' really came through on this one, since I got a good sharp image. I went back the next night with the tripod and better lense, but the light just wasn't the same.

Well maybe not all that, but we are going out to Seattle and the surrounding area for a few days and I though I'd post some pics from the road. Go to this page to see an album. Initially it is just empty folders, but if I have time (and an Internet connection) each night in the hotel I'll update things.

I'm not promising 'art'... just some snapshots of what we've been up to so check back often! Click the 'read more' link for more information

This took my by surprise today, I hadn't realized until I stumbled upon this Wikipedia article that not only has Kodachrome been 'dead' with no new stock produced in years, but that there is now only one lab in the world that processes it!

I never realy shot much Kodachrome myself, I liked the Fujichrome or velvia (both for color, and the faster turnaound of the E6 processing).

Wikipedia Article

There is some Photoshop trickery going on in this image. Click on it to see a larger view, then see the 'read more' link to find out what it is.

I remember this old tree, on the side of the trail up Putney Mountain, from when I was a kid. Back then, we would climb all over it without a thought about how long it has been there or how many other kids had done the same over the years.

Back then, it looked timeless. Now it is looking a bit worse for wear. A few of the branches coming off it are dead, quite a bit of bark is missing from the trunk, and there is an open crack where the large horizontal branch comes off the main trunk where water can pour in and rot the inside.

I used to think that this tree would outlive me... not so much anymore. Now I am happy every time I hike up to visit it that it is still standing. Some day it won't be, and I'll just have to be happy with the photos I've taken of it over the years. I want to go back again with my macro lense (and maybe a ladder) to get some more fine detail photos of the bard and old scars on this wonderful beast.

Tonight I opened up my first bottle of what I'll call 'Beer #2', the 2nd batch of beer that Jamie and I made and bottled just under three weeks ago.

Not bad! Nice golden brown color, good carbonation, already better than the flat underfermented 'Peoples Pint' ESB I had at Mesa Verde last night. I think it would benefit from another few weeks of 'conditioning', but certainly not a bad beer. :)

As I write this, I can feel the beginning of a good 'buzz' (I've downed about 1/3 of the bottle), so I think the alcholol content is OK...