Entries Tagged as 'Friends'

Tea in Kensington, Mud in Wimbledon

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My intent is to accelerate the process of documenting my trip to Europe by providing vignettes accompanied by photographs. Here is my first attempt.
I stayed in London with a Hook teammate from Paganello 2007. My gracious host was Alexander Dunnett, more commonly known as Stylish. This peerless fellow studies Energy Systems Engineering at Imperial [...]


March Is Nearly Gone

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But, Drew, you say, today is only March 7th!
I leave in two hours to fly to San Francisco, along with RV and a few other Seattle Ultimate ladies, to hang out with Whit and Claire and play a beach hat tournament.
On Thursday, March 13th, I fly to London. I'll be playing a grass tournament that [...]


Photo Processing

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I loved loved loved David Hunt's photograph of a winding Utah road and I wanted to see what else I could get out of the image. I processed first with Lightroom for exposure, white balance and sharpening.

I then took this image into Photoshop and played a bit more. I added more contrast, standard and [...]


Dunking Usher!

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Sam, Matty and I headed to the Supersonics game last night. The Supes finished off the Grizzlies 108 - 101, despite the absence of Kevin Durant and a recurring comedy of errors masquerading as Seattle's offense. Seriously, who doesn't score in a 3 on 2? And, Durant, you missed your own bobble-head night because of [...]


Whirling Dervish

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Emlyn sent me this beautiful and fanciful display of longboarding prowess:

This video inspires me to dig out my Original Hybrid but then I remember that one of the trucks is totally broken and that Seattle hills are not so friendly.


A Musical Week

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My concert attendance has been picking up in 2008. AC and I saw the Decemberists perform on January 31st and this week is even better.
On Sunday, Brooke, Birch and I headed to the Showbox for scratchy goodness. I arrived five minutes into Kid Koala's opening set to find the crowd hooting and hopping, obviously pleased [...]


Why I Care About Photography, Again

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I care about photography because it lets me prove that people like me enough to sit still on the other side of a lens for a brief moment. Friends! That's what those people are called. And friends are keen, and also, often, really ridiculously good looking.