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.

As part of our two year running tradition (with many years to come), Asha and I took the time to have some fun taking photos for our holiday card.  Thanks to my trusty tripod and MkII, we were able to capture a few fun and partially random moments (the cones on our heads was totally Asha’s idea!).  Our location was in Bothell, down by the amphitheater back in mid October.  Also, take a peek at the whit and wisdom of my good friend Horace Glump at his website, featuring photos from yours truly at the Glumpabilia Store which can also be found in the right sidebar.

Asha and I met up with our newly wed friends Angela and Evan to hit up the Puyallup Fair the last day it was running.  This was the first time Asha and I had been to a fair of this size, and we were quite surprised, as it was substantially larger than the Kootenai County Fair we grew up with in Coeur d’ Alene Idaho.  Below are a few details from our highly enjoyable far experience.

Angela sporting the one of the substantial burgers we enjoyed

"Lomo" style fair ride image

Asha modeling next to one of the many attractive signs

Evan giving a proffessional photographer worthy dirty camera stare

Skillfully posing for a final shot of the night

A few weeks back, my good friends Simon and Nancy paid us a visit.  Being the good “Seattlites” that my wife and I are, we did our best to give them both the most authentic experience possible.  This obviously included a trip to Pike Place Market, dinner at Bin on the Lake (formally the Beach Cafe in Kirkland), a visit to the Olympic Sculpture Park and rock climbing at the REI wall.