In October, I spent time with some family friends at the park. Carter and Julia, the kids pictured below, are two individuals with more unique personality, energy and love than most kids I have encountered! These photos only reflect a small part of them. These images were taken at Juanita Bay Park, a great place to go just about any time of year.

Here it is, the second and final part of my series of images from our travels (mostly) in Italy. Venice was one of the last major cities we visited, and it was here while riding a gondola that Simon proposed to Nancy! I can think of very few more romantic settings to ask for someones hand in marriage than while on a gondola in Venice with the bells ringing across the city! Please enjoy these final 11 images.

15:15:12 - Venice, Italy

18:13:01 - Milan, Italy

18:13:52 - Verona, Italy

18:32:24 - Venice, Italy

18:34:02 - Milan, Italy

18:36:20 - Milan, Italy

18:43:32 - Milan, Italy

18:47:25 - Venice, Italy

18:59:51 - Verona, Italy

19:36:42 - Milan, Italy

19:58:27 - Venice, Italy

Yet again, an embarrassing amount of time has elapsed since my last blog post. This past summer was a busy one with weddings, family, travel and more. The next couple of posts will be featuring images of travel, with Italy as the primary country of interest. Originally, I was simply going to do a series of posts for the various cities we visited but on second thought and a suggestion from my wife I decided to change things up. The images are displayed chronologically by hour, but not date. Although we drove from Germany to Switzerland then to Italy then through Austria back to Germany, most of our time was spent in Italy as the photos will reflect.

My wife and I shared our travels with our good friends, Simon and Nancy. Originally, the surprise(for me) trip was intended to simply be our first real vacation together, but turned into our Babymoon weeks before we flew out! Needless to say, it was quite an adventure, and there are hundreds of photos to go along with the many stories made in the whirlwind 10 day trip. Here are just 11 moments in time, part I of Time Travel.

Whenever friends come into town for a visit, we try take them to our favorite places in the area. A few of the locations that we visited this time were Daniel Smith, Richmond Beach and the Redhook Brewery. Below are a few photos from our trip to the beach with our dear cousins Krista and Daniel Fogt. For some reason, I felt like really tweaking with the photos, applying heavy vignettes, ramping up the detail, messing with the color saturation and the vibrancy. I like the results, which I think ended up somewhere between cross processing and lomography.

Although it has been nearly a YEAR since my posting with images from a day hike at Cougar Mountain, the video below was “shot” the very same trip (on my mkII).  The reason I have been procrastinating is that I have not had any video editing software until yesterday.  Although I own the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Suite, there are no apps for editing video with is in the package.  So currently I am running a thirty day trail of Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.  Yes, the music is cheesy.  Yes, the shots are shaky.  Yes, the transitions are lacking.  Yes, this is my first video edit.  But who cares!  You have to start someplace, and it seems that this is my starting line.