Oasis

Brooke and I went to this really cool little park north east of tucson. It was basically an oasis like you see in the movies. There were just these giant palm trees and swamp/pond in the middle of no where. Then if you followed a stream 50 yards up it just stops into a bubbling spring. Needless to say it was really cool. There was a huge pond with ducks and frogs, and we got to see great horned owls chicks. When we pulled up we could see a guy with a tripod pointing his camera at a palm tree. We got closer to ask him what he was looking at and he showed us. 3 great horned owl chicks. The mother was around he said earlier, but he didn't know what had happened to her. So we enjoyed our time by the pond for a little while. I could have gotten better pics of the owls if i had a longer lens, but alas that will have to weight for another day.

20 Dollar Camera Fun

So i bought pretty much one of the cheepest non disposable cameras out there. Its a holga. To give you a little course on what a holga is, i'll explane that to you right now. The holga was invented to bring the freedom of photography to china. Its a plastic camera, with a plastic lens. It has two shutter speeds. One is around 1/250 of a second (i think), the other is the bulb (how ever long you want the shutter to be). It also runs on 120 film so it shoots 6x6 square imagines. It only has one appature, and is made really cheeply. All these things make the holga so much fun. The holga is a delight to artists because of its weird image quality. It also takes all the control of a normal camera away from you. Therefore you need to focus more on the composition of the picture, rather then things like shutter speed and appature. It pretty much makes you think more about the picture and not so much about the technical crap. I shot some black and white and i must say. I'm a fan.

Easter

Just a few photos of the Easter events.

Let’s Make it 3!!!

  Will it be a ‘TREY’ or Daddy’s ‘TRES hijas’ in the making? We won’t know until some time after October 12 (Kerry has been late with both Abbi & Sadie), but one thing is for sure: a bun IS in the “oven.”

 

Heart Beats: 163 (Highest yet; Abbi & Sadie were about 150ish)

 

Kerry is 12 weeks along!

The Befuddling Bonetastic Illumination Device

Geology Major aka fieldtrip central

So my Petrology class went on a field trip, (Petrology not meaning the great search for oil, but the study of Metamorphic, Igneous rocks). We headed over to Charlottesville Virginia, the great town of Thomas Jefferson. From there we drove to various places. On the first day we went to a cave that was not well known and not crowded. This was an awesome cave, there were places where we had to army crawl to get through tight places and shuffle sideways the get through narrow passageways. It was one of the cooler things I have done. The second day we went on the blue ridge highway, which goes up into the appalacians and weaves around in there. We looked at some outcrops and some cool scenery. So here are a few pictures of my journey, I have many more cool pics that I may post later but for now, I will keep you waiting on the edge of you seat.

Poppy Street Fog

On a tip from Bryce DeYoung me and brooke made our way down to newport beach. We drove down the PCH and made a right onto Poppy street. There was a hidden beach with tide pools. It was really cool and foggy. We explored the coast and found lots a crabs, shells, birds, and one seal. Check out the pics.