so when i first started this blog i pretty much vowed to update it every day like a good photographer should. however, life comes along and you get distracted. jobs, family, and friends happen and the next thing you know is that you haven’t updated in several weeks. orrr it could also be that you’re way too busy watching all the episodes of LOST that you’ve got stockpiled in your netflix cue… enough to probably last you a good several months. either way.

anyway, i’ve taken tons of pictures since memorial day. (that’s right, i have pictures from memorial day that i’ve been meaning to post). i’ve been sorting through them and slowly editing, but now i can’t find a reason to write about things that happened several months ago. so here’s the deal – i am going to be updating every day and include at least one picture from past or present shoots. i might write about photography… i might write about something completely random. but it’ll be a post everyday! really! i mean it this time! :)

memorial day:

this memorial day we had fireworks in pittsburgh with our family back home.  it was a lot of fun (until the neighbors called the cops). geoff’s little cousins were there being cute:

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geoff was there, being ridiculous:

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and my dad was there… standing way too close to all of the explosives:

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not pictured: everyone else.

also – more on the actual dangers of fireworks later this week.

updating is fun!

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geoff went to blue flame tattoo in raleigh last week and got his first tattoo.  it’s a visual representation of the golden ratio and fibonacci sequence (read about it here.) matt mebane did his tattoo and also allowed me to be annoying by taking some photographs. he did a great job. geoff said it was pretty much painless… equating it to scraping yourself with the tip of a mechanical pencil. hmm.

proof:

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the space between the spiral and the triangles will be colored in this fall… he’s found it extremely difficult to not go swimming while it heals. :)

also… after buckles turned 1 year old, he matured instantly and grew a mustache:

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:) we went to the handmade festival at marbles museum last weekend and got several catnip mustaches for the boys. maisonwares made them and you can buy one here. buckles, who i’m pretty sure came close to overdosing on catnip before, loves it. dolfy is rather disinterested and still prefers clawing up the carpet and yelling at everyone.

on an off-photography topic, i just saw the trailer for spike jonze’s where the wild things are. this was one of my favorite childhood books and i was a little skepitcal when i heard they were making a movie. however, i just saw the trailer and it looks fantastic! better than anything i could’ve imaged. it looks beautiful and on a photography topic, the director of photography must be amazing. here’s the trailer:

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