New Year’s Day is my cousin Alex’s birthday. Can you imagine turning 21 right at midnight, as everyone is partying their brains out? Pretty rad if you ask me. After the partying and much-needed sleep, Alex had a birthday party at die BierStube, a German tavern in Seattle. I couldn’t have thought of a better place.
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So How'd We Do?
As we begin our 2012 adventures, I thought it would be worth looking over our first year, seeing how we’ve progressed and if anything needs to be reevaluated. We learned a lot for sure, and for sure there’s a lot more to learn.
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A Year in the Life of a Shreeve
While digging through thousands (okay, hundreds maybe) of my photos from this year, I came upon this conclusion: I need to either take way more photos or stop altogether. That being said, here is a compilation of not the greatest photos, but rather the greatest moments of 2011 that I happened to capture with my picture taking device. Continue reading
Fuzz's Christmas Vacation
Most of you remember Justin Shreeve’s canine companion from our interview a few months back. Well I got a chance to follow him around during his Christmas vacation. In this, I hope to give you a deeper look into the life of this curious soul, this stoic creature, this living question mark we know as Fuzz.
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Dinner with Paul and Donald
Paul and Donald are my mom’s friends. Paul is an out of work loan officer and Donald is a hairdresser. They invited us over to their house for dinner, which would be a crown roast, mashed potatoes, mushrooms, and asparagus, followed by blueberry rhubarb pie and coffee for dessert.
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Guest Blaster ● Bekka Björke <BR>Flash Lessons… The Hard Way
A few weeks ago Bekka Björke, a photographer friend of mine, invited me to do a shoot with her in San Jose. “I’ll find the model and set it all up, you don’t worry about a thing” she said.
The Olympic Peninsula
On the western slopes of the Olympic mountains in Washington is one of the few and largest temperate rain forests in the US. Populated primarily by moss-covered Sitka spruce and western hemlock, it’s one of the greenest places I’ve ever seen. While I was home in Washington for Christmas, my family and I went to check it out.
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From the Archives ● Haleakala
My mom gave me her old Canon Powershot to use as a walkaround camera, and it still had photos from my parents’ last trip to Maui on it. Most of the photos are typical snapshots, but this view of the crater on Haleakala is stunning. At 10,023 feet, the peak is higher than Tioga Pass in Yosemite, which is the highest pass in the Sierra. Not bad for rising out of the middle of the ocean.
There’s a sign nearby that reads “Through the ages people have been drawn to Haleakala to renew their spirit, gather resources, pasture cattle, study the ecosystems, study the heavens, understand the earth, bury their dead, view the wilderness, enjoy a journey.” I can’t say I blame them. I’d do all those things on Haleakala too.
.:Bohan
Christmas Downhill Sesh
Port Closure
A couple weeks ago, Geoff, Joe and I ventured over to west Oakland to march to the port with the Occupiers. It had been a while since they were kicked out of Frank Ogawa Plaza so we were anxious to see what was going to happen. Would the police block them from closing the port? Would the teamsters and longshoremen support or oppose the protest? We fell in line to find out.
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