niles after xmas

Just a couple photos, from going to Niles to meet up with Ben and Jenn. I think we also went wine tasting with them? There's no evidence, at least not good enough for this blog.

OK photos

These are somewhat out of order, but I wanted the two verticals together. I was in Oklahoma for 13 days in December, then we came back here to have a chill xmas an new year. It was good to see everyone, including the folks I didn't get photos of. Sorry! I was really frustrated with the old camera at this point, and had just about given up. With this post, we're now approaching this year! SO. FAR. BEHIND.

acrobat on silks at the company party

This was just days before we went to Oklahoma. My company's xmas party, which was pretty rad. There wasn't much going on, visually, apart from this. I mean, I have some portraits, but they're not great. Monochromatic stage lighting is hard as hell to work with. That difficulty is the reason that these are all in black and white. The dominant channel (whatever color the light is) will blow out, and the rest will be ok. You can save this with black and white conversion, with the added benefit that it more closely matches what I see when I'm shooting a scene like this. Something the event organizers did wonderfully with this event: they had at least one really visual element in the evening. It may be because we're a very media-centric company, or it may just be a stroke of luck that we didn't have some rock band instead. I was stoked, in any case, that someting cool was going down. Later in the evening, there was much drinking and dancing, even by me, but all those photos are blurry. These make a nice set, though.

ronan's birthday breakfast

Early December, and I'm skipping a few pictures only to maybe come back to them later. This was when Mary was in town, too, although I didn't get a decent photo of her (a failure on my part). Anyway, this was the day I learned about Buckfast. This is a tonic wine for winos, I guess. In the words of Ronan, "If you drink the whole bottle, you're going to do some crime." I tried it, but didn't get enough to even cause jaywalking.