Chris

about the people who did something to win these trophies which were now so easily discarded. i first thought they could be recycled but ... i'm sure at least some people, now, probably, having moved on, were very excited to have won.

there were a of couple old couches as well but they were not ... pictorially interesting.

nor were the new air conditioning units.


m was ready to race but ... i don't know how much the organizer would appreciate a spaniel in the water.


i know i'm going to hell ... but ... they didn't have the doritos-relay this day. ;)

i'm sure there would have been plenty of punters to be sure.

i know.

going.

to.

hell.

at least i'll have friends there already.


yep. that's b. she won all four of her events.

by a long-ass margin.


checking out her seed time against her ... whatever-time.

the only sports i like are polo, golf, tennis, european soccer and bull riding.

the pussies in mexico and spain kill the fucker; they don't try and ride 'em. and the french ... they jump over them.

yeah, ride those bitches ... see how ya' feel afterwards. ;)

not that i've ever ... wait ... i may have gone to a rodeo and seen bulls being ridden.


this older guy read this story like three or four times.

i blame mortgage brokers (especially the ones in orange county and calabasas) for the current meltdown. if they could have just bought one fucking hummer and only one set of fake tits (for their wife and not their girlfriend) ... we'd all be better off.

which now brings me to finland, although i'm sure it's part of sweden, as much as i like suzi i was on dA checking out V6. very well done, actually. anyway ... the message centre looks totally different. so ... i'm reading a few of the journals posted by some of the 100 or so people i watch when i saw a recent entry from jenni aka suzi9mm. then i read more and saw another journal... where she said:

"Cuba. unlike any other, really, im sure u know how. while you feel like youre in a movie, when everything you see is from the 40's or 50's, the people are well educated and have free, high level healthcare. i bet most americans dont know that the embargoed Cuban gets better healthcare than they do, unless the american has lots of money. but being from a socialist-democratic country myself, i appreciate that everyone is taken care of, and was amazed at how well it worked in there. but Fidel is a romantic and that showed too. so its not perfect. but how would they do without the embargo, better or worse than neighbors? i would love to know, really, and so would they. i think Obama has said that if chosen as a president, he would open a dialogue with Cuban lead. might be about time. its not like Cuba is in any way a threat to the US, or anyone else. the people were really friendly and in general i enjoyed my time. its not s shopping paradise as the shops are empty, more like if your interested in culture and people, or even the beach, they have those. but the food is bad, i have to say, just like the travel book threatened...the food...oh dear. well, they are lacking many basic supplies. if you are heading to Cuba though, book your room from CasaVera, its a homestay near the center, and it really made up at least 50% of my trip being so good. the host couple is great and you feel welcomed. they speak english, russian, italian and some finnish and whatnot. good people. AND, they do make the best cuban food there is."

um, love, do you realize that your social democratic country as like 5.2M people? that's almost half of what we have just in los angeles county. um ... i don't think your model of one of the highest tax rates on the planet would really work in a much much much larger population.

not only, but ... cuba having better health care? are you kidding me? please cite your specific examples of how cuban medical schools are better than those at san francisco university medical school or perhaps harvard or johns hopkins.

yes, cuba is, in fact, the place i'd love to have a brain tumor removed.

for sure.

seriously, when i hear people talk shit about a place they really don't know -- or have even been queered in their thinking by canadians -- it pisses me off.

it's funny how many europeans have totally glomed on to that "change" mantra propogated by obama. the truth is ... no one really knows what will happen when obama gets elected.

the only good candidate was ron paul. fyi.

anyway ... i'm sorry ... when people compare their own systems of democracy given the fact they have a smaller gdp than a single county in america ... it just pisses me off.

sorry, jenni. ;)

i'm sure your legions of emo-kids will leave shitty comments. ;)

we saw this bumper sticker on a cash register the other night "cheer up emo kid."

amazing new pizza place in our 'hood. garage pizza!


dunno why. but i thought it was funny how that woman was holding her nikon.


dunno why but i've been shooting a lot of surveillance cameras.

they creep me the fuck out.

i just think of some underpaid jack-off ... sitting there and ... not really seeing what he "should be seeing."

i honestly think that people shit on the u.s., especially in relatively socialist countries, because they're jealous of the opportunities afforded here to both the truly talented and those with an amazing skillset of bullshit. ;)

oh, yeah, these photos ... all with the beast. some 50/1.4 with a 1 stop b+w ND. the 70-200/2.8L and the 45/2.8 TS. edited and exported with aperture, of course.

just got a proper nd for the 45/2.8 TS! :) i only had a 3 and 6 stop in the 72mm flavour. pain in the ass.

looks cool ... the results ... but ... pain in the ass for sure.

one stop should do it.


stopped for a coffee and there were crows all over the friggin' place.

not sure i'm a fan.


the bain of the suburban-american's existence at present.

wait until the monsters of the current administration invade iran! just wait.

think even obama could pull out if that happened?

i'll bet not.

greed must be an amazing thing to think about all day.

world domination.

ya' know.


they so look "caught."

had a couple 580ex's bouncing around triggered with the IR thing.


he's getting big. :(

not bad for iso 1000. i know ... i know ... nikon's d3 goes to like iso 25000+.

whatever.

i know what works for me.

even in the shittiest concert lighting iso 800 and iso 1000 have always worked for me. then again, i use fast glass.

dunno why everyone is so excited about shit cameras can do that they'll almost never use.

makes me laugh.

then again, what makes me laugh harder is being popular at the behest of a bunch of emo-fucks. ;)


ridiculously cute. :)

one more, 'kay?


was looking for the 600 but ... alas ... it's in the equipment locker at the bureau.

sorry ... i know ... what was i thinking doing a pet portrait with anything less than a four or six hunksi? dunno.

lets see ... what else ... oh yeah ... i'm launching my own personal blog again with the help of jark. why? i loved the autonomy of having my blog. not only, this one will be tied to my professional site.

no, i am not leaving uber. i will continue to post photos and blogs and whatever on uber.com ... on here i can be different than something tied to my professional profile.

the blogs on my personal professional site will be a bit different, though.

and ... i have some contributors as well. :) think ... theonlinephotographer.com but with talent. ;) perhaps there will be more "political correctness" as well. ;)

nhat tells me the promo for the contest is coming along and should be finished by the end of the week! i cannot wait for someone to win a new zeiss ikon rangefinder and a nice semi-fast lens.

never understood why zeiss never did any one-four glass ... but ... two-oh is almost as nice.

yep.

i'm gonna have some nice pasta.

hope you're all off to a nice week. this is a busy one for me!