Boo!

Sorry for the delay between posts. As I mentioned in an earlier blog, taking care of a new baby takes most of my time; I actually work all day while at work, then when I get home, Kyra hands over Andrew so that she can finally take a break and do the things she wants to do. Andrew is still young (just turn two months today) so he doesn't really go to bed too much earlier than we do (if at all). When he does go to bed, Kyra and I are exhausted and barely have the energy to lie on the couch before going to bed ourselves.

But I digress. There was a huge full moon a few weeks ago, but I didn't really notice until I went to take out the trash on evening.  I walked outside and though "ohhh, that's cool".  I went back upstairs grabbed the camera and stood in the middle of my street taking shots of the moon. The idea was to bracket the moon inside a hole in some trees. However, I was trying to do this handheld while standing directly under a streetlight. . .it didn't work out, but it gave me an idea. Fortunately, Kyra was kind enough to let me go out for a little while, so I grabbed my camera and tripod and headed out to Woodland Park (which is just down the street).

Unfortunately, by some clouds moved in and I wasn't able to get a crisp picture of the moon.  Fortunately, the clouds created an eerie atmosphere.  I set up the camera in the parking lot, framed the moon between the split trunks of a tree, and fired away. I took a variety of shots and really liked the one below.

I finally got around to posting this around Halloween and thought it would be a fun idea to shop in a "scary face".  After searching for "evil round face" I found the perfect one, and wouldn't you know it, I didn't even have to re-size the face to make it fit.  So, enjoy. . .I'll try to post more as I have some from the Chihully Glass Museum and a few more from Carkeek Park.