alaska: juneau

Juneau is another place I’d like to spend more time, because our time there was mostly (enjoyably!) consumed by our excursion. It’s the fifth smallest state capital in the US (which four are smaller? Keep reading!) and the only one that is not accessible by road at all – boat or plane only, and if…

alaska: ketchikan

Ketchikan, our first stop, is and has always been primarily a salmon town. But it’s a salmon town with a lot of nature. Our excursion here took us to the Alaska Rainforest Gardens (did you know Alaska has a rainforest? Second largest in the world, after the Amazon – the Tongass National Forest touched all…

atlanta backyard, fall

It was a beautiful weekend, so I mucked around in Trav’s folks’ backyard playing with the macro function on my Sigma 70-300mm. Getting my chops back.

the sun don’t rise and set on louisiana

I was down in the ATL this past weekend seeing Trav, the fourth time I’ve been down since we got back together in February. Long distance, of course, sometimes means that you often just want to sit on the couch and be within arms’ reach of each other, and the first three trips down, Trav…

farmer’s market, may

While my car was having her brakes tuned up, and before the rumbling grey skies rolled in, I puttered about the farmer’s market with my camera.

the new kacey musgraves record is great

you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t so you might as well just do whatever you want so make lots of noise, kiss lots of boys or kiss lots of girls if that’s something you’re into

worth getting up for, summer edition

Worth getting up for this summer: the Menzingers and Lucero at the Cradle, Langhorne Slim and Ha Ha Tonka at the Casbah; long conversations with musicians I like and respect; field trips with the tiny dinosaurs; Gaslight Anthem and Dave Hause together at the Cradle, Girl in a Coma at the 506; the new light…

make me think

Inspiring me today: PrismYard: a user-curated gallery of vintage cameras. Yum. Prague Daily Photo: a long-time resident of my RSS reader, I’ve been craving a trip to Eastern Europe lately thanks to them. These amazing photos from Dixie Pixel owner Tara Kneiser. Esquire’s photo shoot with Jon Hamm. (More diner photoshoots pls. Fewer bathrooms shoots…