Week 41: Mmm Tasty

Fall is pumpkin season, so my photo club went out to Jubilee Farms in Carnation for some seasonal shooting. Saw a catapult throw a pumpkin, fell down a hill and took some photos. My favorite though was this sign. I found it funny that pigs think fingers are food because I think pigs are food. BACON! More photos from this day are on my Flickr phot stream

Camera: Canon 7D

Location: Seattle, WA

Week 40: I Ate Where?

I agreed to go to Kansas City even though I had knocked Missouri off my list of states in June for 2 reasons. 1) I was promised a trip to Kansas so I could cross that off the list and 2) While in Kansas I would indulge in some of the best BBQ in the states. Imagine my surprise when I was taken to a gas station in Kansas for lunch!

To be honest I was told ahead of time that Oklahoma Joe's is in a gas station. And the BBQ was very good. We got there shortly after the place opens at 11. By 11:30 the line was out the door. If ever in Kansas City I highly recommend stopping at this gas station for lunch.

Camera: Canon 7D
Location: Kansas City, KS

Week 38-39: Lo-Fi Weekend

Last weekend I went non-digital. Took out my polaroid and fisheye and enjoyed a beautiful fall day with friends.





Week 38: UFOs at Discovery Park


Saturday I got together with the Flickr Peeps for a lo-fi stroll in Discovery Park. The sun was shining so it was a good day to take the polaroid out. I do love the impossible project the film always produces some interesting artifacts. This one there appears to be a UFO floating over Puget Sound.

Location: Seattle, WA

Camera: Polaroid

Week 39: Deception Pass

Sunday I drove up to deception pass to take an hour boat ride with a friend. Saw some wildlife and got to view the bridge from underneath. Very cool






Location: Deception Pass, WA
Camera: Lomography Fisheye

Weeks 35-37 Happy Birthday to Me

I'm a little behind on my blog posts. That's because I've been busy celebrating my birthday this month. I decided instead of only having a single day or a birthday week I was going to celebrate all month. If I was going to celebrate all month it couldn't just be in Seattle there had to be multiple cities and not just cities but countries.


Week 35: A Room With a View

I kicked off the birthday celebrations with a weekend trip to Puerto Vallarta with my friend Helen. A few days at the beach, a few drinks (ok maybe more than a few), and some sleep. This is a view from the balcony at our resort.


Camera: Canon 7D
Location: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Week 36: Soaring

We spent a day sailing in Puerto Vallarta saw dolphins, birds and I swam with the fishies.

Camera: Canon 7D

Location: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Week 37: Lobstah Roll

After Mexico the next logical stop for me was Boston. It has been years since I celebrated in Boston. When I first moved to Boston my first birthday dinner was at Legal Seafoods it seemed only fitting to have my Boston birthday celebration at the new Legal's Harborside. It was great to catch up with friends from both Boston and London and of course enjoy a lobster roll.

Camera: Android

Location: Boston, MA

Week 34: Musical Sunset

Wednesday evening I went to the Brandi Carlile concert at the zoo. It was a great show and an amazing sunset occurred during the encore which made it even better. As the sun was going down Brandi Carlile was singing Johnny Cash, maybe I should have shot video instead of a photo so you could hear the soundtrack to this beautiful sunset.

Camera: Android

Location: Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle

Week 33: Triday

I just love getting up at 5 AM on a Sunday followed by strenuous exercise. Today was the triathlon I've been training for. This year I decided to do a longer distance tri but still a sprint the total distances were 1/2 mile swim, 12 mile bike and a 5K run. That's a lot of exercise for early in the morning. The weather was perfect today about 60 degrees the water was about the same temperature so it wasn't all that cold. I always find the biggest challenge of the swim dealing with all the other swimmers. I've gotten much better at getting around people and getting my own space. Overall I was very pleased with my times, I actually did much better than I thought I would. I was expecting to be a little over 2 hours I had assumed 20-25 minutes for the swim, 55-60 minutes for the bike and 45 minutes for the run plus time for transition. I was quite surprised when I ended in under 2 hours. Here are all the pertinent stats:

Clock time: 1:53:28
Overall place: 976/2036
Division place: 120/207
Swim: 19:00
Swim rank: 444
Transition 1: 6:59
Bike: 45:53
Bike rank: 799
MPH: 15.6
Transition 2: 2:22
Run rank: 1455
Run: 39:12
Pace 12:38


And now onto the picture. This is what I treated myself to after the race. My body was so sore and was in need of grease and sugar. Dork burger (duck and pork), banana cream ice cream sundae and sweet potato fries.






That concludes all of the photos that I took today. But I'm sure some of you are interested in seeing pictures of the race so now onto some of the photos that Dave took of me.



Wondering if I still have time to change my mind here.

I'm somewhere in the water can you spot me. I'm not sure where I am so if you can spot me you're better than I am.





Returning from a nice ride across I-90

The end is in sight.

Thankfully I didn't actually need the first aid tent.

Week 32: Gasworks

One of my goals of this 52 week project was to get over to gasworks park to take some photos. I've been there a couple of times but never have taken my camera. This week provided me just the opportunity I needed, a friend from the UK office was over and wanted to go on a photo stroll. Luckily the weather co-operated for us.

I really wanted to make this my photo of the week as I do love signs but I resisted.

Oh wait no I didn't I just posted it.

For additional photos from gasworks see my photostream

Location: Seattle
Camera: Canon 7D