Happy New Year.

Happy New Year!
It is my sincere wish that you have a safe and happy new year.
Here is to another year.


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Hypertextually Speaking.

Stephen Sleeping next to the tree.

Dreaming of a white Christmas.

SNOW!

MY God.

It started snowing here just long enough for Emma to get what she wished for Christmas. Snow.

Merry Christmas Every One.
To those of you that I have touched in the last year, may I continue to touch you-- Wait. Hold on. It just sounds wrong.

Just, Merry Christmas.

Help Me.

Elegant Emma.

Emma is so lovely.

By request.

Someone asked me to post more pictures of myself. This one goes out to you. It's called 'My life BEHIND the camera' for a reason.

Soar.

I want to soar.
But my heart, weighed down by a lie, will not allow it.
I remain sore.
Not by choice, but by design.
A design, not my own, but of my own making.

Life is filled with inconceivable chance.

This is a game of apples to apples that was played at the Costello's house a week or two ago. It included the card that I wrote 'Jim Costello' on almost a year ago. My card was freckles... God I love the redheads, although Pyros are pretty dangerous too.

Hotels are the best place to relax.

Flying in formation.

Full committal.

Hotels are the best place to relax.

I AM the best dad ever. Mainly because my parents are so awesome. Seriously, I have so much fun with the kids. It really keeps me going.

As for the above picture: Hotel, two queens, eight pillows 2 comforters, and kids that like to jump. Notice the full extension.

I flew to Colorado to visit my dear friend Mr. Fanning, and his family. I got some great pictures. Over two thousand seperate images.
Beautiful panorammas. More to come. The above is the town of Estees Park.

The Fly II

So this fly was moving on in the world, molting from pupa to an adult, so it couldn't get away as I approached with the camera. Check out it's wings.

Mad props to my assistant for holding the mirror so still. Thanks K.

The basic fly life cycle is egg, larvae (maggots — see below), pupa and adult (winged stage), called holometabolism. There is often a difference in food sources for larvae versus adult dipterans of the same species. For example, mosquito larvae live in standing water and feed on detritus while the adults feed on nectar as their energy source while females utilize blood as their energy source for egg production.
Flies rely heavily on sight for survival. The compound eyes of flies are composed of thousands of individual lenses and are very sensitive to movement. Some flies have very accurate 3D vision. A few, like Ormia ochracea, have very advanced hearing organs.

Fly.

I wish I was a fly on the wall sometimes.

The kids and I went to OMSI to see Body Worlds 3, it is a traveling exhibit that has plasticised humans. It was very interesting and I was amazed how many internal organs Emma could identify. I could tell Stephen got a little creeped out but he was fascinated and I explained that all the people that donated their bodies to the exhibit had their own reasons for doing it. I also explained how the various poses correlated with what was happening to his muscles under his skin. They had a fun time, and we learned a lot.

Geko.

The cool geko at OMSI.

She actually loved it!

I couldn't believe she loves the sashimi.

Just Leaves.

Haven't Posted anything in a while.

Decaying Dock photo edit...

Original... I didn't like all the dogwood fluff floating in the water. So...

I took it all out. All of it. I think it looks better now. You really have to view the full resolution to appreciate all the work done on this one. I bend reality to suit me, but then again don't we all.

Get that plant a razor.

Up close plants look strange. Seriously. I think these where dandelion stalks.

In case you didnt know...

You can click to view a bigger image. And see things like the tiny spider web on the right-hand side of the flower.

Cats used to bring out the sneeze in me.

I like cats, I always have mainly cause I could never have one. I like the fact that they kill for fun. What other animal will kill something and play with it for a while and then leave it on your doorstep; as a gift. This much understood act of love from cat to human is such a kind one.

So if a hobo shows up on your front porch, and you don't think he's breathing, just know that I love you!

I would buy my pictures.

Your new desktop image served up on a platter of love.

Now it I could only get some sleep. I wish I could place the blame squarely on one thing. But I cant. It's hard to be a human.

It's human to be hard? Oh, oh. It's bad if your brain melts... right?

Good people really do happen to bad things.

So Steve lost his first tooth on the fourth. I really have nothing else to say, except I would have been there for you buddy. I love you and let me know what the tooth fairy brings ya.

Now for the American team...

This might just be one of the best timed series of three images that I have ever taken. Thanks for the oportuity to take all the fun pictures at the barbecue Scott. Thanks also to Dawn who almost puts up with me and I love her for it. ;) You guys are great. Was a nice surprise to see Brian and company too.

The Sellwood: Photoedit.

This is the original: Taken at the Willamette of the Sellwood Bridge. I wasn't very happy with the muted tones of the bridge and sky or the trees in the background not looking like... well... trees.

This is my photoedit... The water looks a little funny to me in the thumbnails, might have to fix that.


The Sellwood Bridge was Portland's first fixed span bridge and, being the only river crossing for miles in each direction, is the busiest two-lane bridge in Oregon. It links the Sellwood and Westmoreland neighborhoods of Portland on the east side with Oregon Highway 43/Macadam Avenue on the west side.

Designed by Gustav Lindenthal, the bridge opened on December 15, 1925 at a final cost of $541,000. It is 1,971 ft. long with 75 ft. of vertical waterway clearance. There are four continuous spans, the two center spans are 300 ft. long and the two outside spans are 246 ft. each. The girders from the old Burnside Bridge (built in 1894) were reused at each end.

BeeZZZ!

So if you look in the eye of the bee, you will see some grains of pollen.

I wonder if that's uncomfortable? I guess when you have a compound eye its no big deal.

Taken out side of my work yesterday, its going to be 101° today. That's too hot to be a bee.

Daisies

If you look at the full version of this image you will notice a single grain of pollen on the single strand of spiders silk.

Also of note the middle of the daisy looks like it is made up of hundreds of daffodils.