A strangely entertaining comedy act

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Kill Bill in one minute

Hilarious:

Also check out Forest Gump in One Minute.

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A wild safari

We hung out for a total of about four hours. I clicked 220 exposures, and kept a whopping 22! Chain link fencing made picture taking a bit of a chore, and I quickly found the limits of my 200mm lens, but we soldiered on. The wind blasted us with dirt and sand the whole time. I did however get to kiss a giraffe, so it wasn’t all hardships. :)

Here are my favorite pics from our weekend trip to the wildlife park.

A game of catch:

Discontent:

A little cat nap:

Nice kitty:

Accomplice (notice wind-blown hair):

See all of the photos in the Flickr Set

A rhino rescue story

DaNece and I took a trip to a wildlife park this weekend. While there, the tour guide gave us a little background of some of the animals that we passed. As we turned a corner he informed us that we would be getting to see one of the park’s prized inhabitants: Boom Boom.

Boom Boom is a rhinoceros who was saved from a purchaser that intended to use him for a canned hunt. He was saved by none other than Marc Ecko (ecko unltd.). For the full story check out this website, as they cover it way better than I could.

 

And for anybody in the area, I would very much recommend checking out the Out of Africa wildlife park. I’ll be posting more pictures soon.

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DaNece, during lunch at El Gato Azul, not looking so happy about life:

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Meow, a sticker put up underneath Gurley St:

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A cairn along the Granite Creek trail:

Breaking that funk

Decided to read through old journal entries to help get out of the rut. The memories were fresh enough that I could still recall the moment of the writings, the feelings and thoughts running through my mind.

 

Walking in the snow:

… So instead I dance through a white curtain, I smile at the sky and try to catch pieces of this moment on my tongue. I try to savor all that is here around me in the present. I choose to ignore the future cold that might take me over, just as I choose to ignore the bites left by snow storms gone by.

A site for the movie addicts

For the movie fiends out there, check out ClerkDogs. You put in a movie title you like, it gives you recommendations based on that, like a movie store clerk. It even tells you how the recommendations compare to your favorite title.

 

And based on my very amateur tests, it matches my likes better than netflix. Hooray!

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Dreams are so easy to hold onto when you keep them inside:

Dinner gone by

A meal from a few weeks ago:

Quinoa cooked with caramelized onion, garlic, carrot, cranberries and parmesan cheese. Served with an acorn squash cooked with brown sugar and butter.

Pic of the day and a big thanks

So first off, thanks to everybody who commented on my last post. I appreciate all the kind words. :)

 

And the pic of the day? A Saleen modified mustang. The S281 3V with some heavy lightroom editing:

Stuck in that rut

Nothing original going on in my brain. Nothing to write about. Nothing to photograph. Nothing to cook. I look back and wonder where all the hours disappeared to. I sit and question where the creativity has gone, and when it will return.

 

For now I am subsisting on mediocrity.

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Another shot of sunrise at Watson lake.

Sunrise in the weeds:

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I’ve got no canz

just this marker in

my hand, but I’ll still

take every chance I get to

kill Uncle Sam!

 

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A random Dodge Charger in the fire dpt. parking lot. Yeah, it’s got a hemi:

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A silly over processed image of a homeless man’s shoes sitting on a hillside in the weeds:

Stuck in Karsh

Marveling at the portraits by Yousuf Karsh

Camping pics

Hooray, got the camping pics up last night! Here they be:

 

Happy dogs after a good hike:

 

There were little spring flowers everywhere:

 

I even got an accidental shot of a butterfly while taking flower shots!:

 

I ran through my first trials with my infrared filter. LOTS to learn on this front. Here is the best of the bunch, a very blurry affair:

 

And of course, I bugged the girls to no end. Eventually DaNece decided to hide:

 

Sadira couldn’t find a place to hide fast enough:

 

As the sun set we were all a little taken with the color of the sky:

 

Nothing quite like sunset in the desert:

 

Other than that there was real fire, over which marshmallows were roasted:

 

And there were ants (randumb?):

 

So that was camping in a nutshell.

See all the photos in the flickr set.

I survived

Well I survived the camping trip to Wickenburg this weekend. We three had a great time and some unbelievable scenery. I’m still downloading pics and editing, but rest assured they will make it here within the week. Somehow Sadira got a post and pics up the very same day we got back. Talk about industrious!

 

The weather there was mild. Cool in the evening (it dipped just below freezing Saturday night), and warm during the days (probably low 70s), which made for great hiking.

 

I do have to say… it is different camping with girls. Lots of inside jokes which I was very much on the outside of. And at times it seemed like they were speaking in tongues. Very high-pitched tongues.

 

They brought products which boys would never be caught camping with (lotion? pajamas?). But regardless of all the femininity in the air we had a blast.

 

I was introduced to cottage cheese with salsa ala Sadira, which ROCKED! We cooked up some burgers with onions and mushrooms which kicked a small amount of ass. And we had some so-so chicken with (not-quite)baked potatoes. We had lunch at Anita’s in wickenburg which was some rockin’ good mexican food, then rolled ourselves home.