Archive for July, 2009

Photos October-December 2008

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Alexander's second birthday:

For his birthday treat, he went to the Seattle Aquarium:

Welcombe, Christmas 2008:

My nieces, Grace and Ella:

This table has an interesting topology - unusually for a table, it is not simply connected. My nephew Ethan sat in the hole in the middle, and kept having to help pass things across the table (he didn't mind too much):

Photos September-October 2008

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

This blog will be returning to regular posting on Wednesday. But first I thought I should catch up on my photo posts. Many of these have already been seen on Gennie's flickr account but I like to have them here too. As it's been (almost exactly) a year since my last photo post, there are lots of photos so I've split them up into three groups. The second and third of these will be posted tomorrow and Tuesday.

I finally developed the last film from my old analogue camera, which has been languishing in a drawer for most of the past 8 years or so. Surprisingly, the pictures still came out reasonably well despite the age of the film:

I'm not quite sure where this one was taken - probably either Welcombe (shortly before I moved here) or Redmond (shortly after, in the backwoods of the Microsoft campus).

I believe this was taken at Wenatchee, when I went white-water rafting with some Microsoft colleagues.

Here are the photos from our trip around the Olympic penisula in September.

Seabrook:

The Quinault rainforest:

Unfortunately at this point in the trip we lost the camera so some pictures are unfortunately missing. We bought a disposable analogue camera to document the rest of the trip.

Hurricane Ridge:

Lake Crescent:

After returning from the trip, I bought a Canon Rebel XS. I've wanted to get into digital SLR photography for a while (having learnt about the basic principles at school, and seeing the excellent photos that friends of ours have had taken with theirs).

Trip to the apple orchard in October 2008: