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espen: photos of the year!!!

Joel — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:19:04 +0000

That’s right! Our stellar friends Bryan & Leah have posted some amazing photos of our boy on their blog that you HAVE to check out! Follow this LINK to see what I’m talking about…thanks so much Bryan & Leah!!!

espen of the week: photo riot!!!

Joel — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:26:14 +0000

Coming up later today, shots from the Photo Riot! at Twin Rocks the other weekend from which this photo was taken…this one was courtesy of the amazing Cherice Bock! My how kids grow…and don’t forget you can “like” these blog posts now. Just click it at the end of the post!

out & about: laurelhurst park.

Joel — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:53:43 +0000

We had some fun as a family today, hanging out at one of my childhood parks in Portland: Laurelhurst Park. Although the huge stainless steel slide has been replaced by a newer, “safer” play structure, I was bummed to not be able to take a photo of my own son on it, just like my dad did with my brother and I were young. We still had fun watching the ducks, eating our picnic, and hitting the sea saw. Hope everyone else was able to enjoy the brilliant weather. And for the gear-geeks out there (you know who you are!), these images were taken on a new-to-me Canon 135 f/2 L series lens – thank you Craigslist!

signs of spring: winter thaw.

Joel — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:04:33 +0000

I had way too much fun with Espen, playing in the late afternoon sun yesterday. The best part about it was when we both took our cameras out (he got a little digital camera for his birthday) and were photographing the flowers together. At one point he got fed up with his little camera and told me he wanted to take a photo with my camera (the Canon 1Ds Mark II), and so the last photo on this page was taken by Espen. I held the camera off the ground, he gripped it, looked through the view finder, framed the shot, and pushed the shutter button. Way to go EP! Hope you were all able to enjoy the sun while it lasted.

espen: turning three.

Joel — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:27:44 +0000

That’s right, the boy is now three! Crazy to believe we’ve already come this far. So, in celebration he and I mad a photo booth the other night and proceeded to take photos of one another. He decided on all the hats, and other random props. He also did an amazing job of taking photos, for which I gladly posed. The image of the two of us together was taking by EP using a remote shutter release. Very cool! Leave some birthday love for the little man if you have a moment.

And this one (below) I just had to include as it captures his amazing eyes, and would be great for a got milk ad.

first run: family snow day on hood.

Joel — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:05:28 +0000

We had a day of chillin’ at the mountain not long ago in which EP had his first tubing experience. As the picture reveals he was enjoying the snow quite a bit!

espen of the month!

Joel — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:33:49 +0000

I was cruising through holiday photos and forgot about this one. It’s hard to believe he’s almost 3 now! Recently he’s been enjoying this large map, and after this shot of him playing by it I couldn’t resist a quick post. Hope you’re all enjoying the holidays, and the end of the first decade of the new century!

and then joel’s world began to tilt and shift…

Joel — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:06:55 +0000

I’ve been watching various photographers using tilt-shift for portraiture (traditionally it is used for architectural shots), and today I just began my journey through a swiftly tilting plane-of-focus. Too cool!

road trip. berkeley part II. fresno. yosemite.

Joel — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:48:20 +0000

Second night we chilled with our good friends the Chapmans in Fresno. We had fun at a local park, eating some amazing Ethiopian food, accidentally taking their frisbee when we left (sorry! we’ll, mail it =), and drinking tea and coffee over a great game of Squint. We started the next day with some famous Chapman coffee cake (famous because it’s supposed to be eaten with milk!), then headed out for the bay area only to change our mind and make a detour to Yosemite on the way. We’d never been, so it was a lot of fun and amazing to see what John Muir and many others advocated for, and Ansel Adams visually captured forever.

Espen got to picking up leaves and pretending they were a camera, then would take our picture. Very creative! (below left)

Half dome (below left) and Yosemite Falls (below right) were both amazing to see. It really is hard to convey the sheer size of these rock faces. They literally shot up out of the valley. It was like Smith Rock on crack!

Although a short trip, it was definitely worth it! We’re looking forward to returning in the future for a longer duration as there was so much potential hiking and photo taking. If you’d like to see some more our good friends the Macys took some photos on their trip last year, you can view them here. More photos on our road trip tomorrow!!!

road trip. berkeley part I.

Joel — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:35:32 +0000

Here’s a few photos from our first day traveling down to the Bay area!

Just outside of Ashland, OR (above). The crew (below).

EP’s good friends (and ours) from the east coast, now living in the west (below). Don’t be deceived by the fire, though! It was really sunny and warm.