>Cole Blows

>Cole had his Cub Scout meeting tonight. They played a game where they moved a cone down a string by blowing on it. Not bad for kid who supposedly has asthma. He also got his Pinewood Derby car tonight. He was pretty pumped. I told him I soup his up with bottle rockets and he'd win for sure.

>Turkey Day

>This is what my Thanksgiving Day looked like at my sister's house. That's her in the green and Jason is on the left.

>NEW INFORMATION ON THIS PHOTO BELOW

>INFORMATION UPDATE: My mother gave me this ferrotype (tintype) photo. It's about the size of a business card. It shows two men in their mid to late thirties and they are twins. They are Henry, left, and Chris Schwenn. Henry is my great-great grandfather. Which, makes them my grandmother's grandfather to be more clear. I guess Henry was a drinker and sent his daughter (my great-grandmother), Frida, on errands to bring back a bucket of beer for him. He shipped her off to live with family most of the time. She didn't did learn english until she was 12-years-old. The photo was probably taken in Cincinatti. In any event, I cleaned it up a little in photoshop and posted it here for all to see. Click the above link to see a photo on this blog that shows my grandmother and her sisters as children.

>For Sale: 1983 Honda XR500

>I've decided to sell my bike. I just don't have time to ride it. I really hate to get rid of it, but that's the way it goes. Click on the link above to see the craigslist ad.

>Greta Steal's Another Ball

>This was Greta's first game at the jamboree where they play a bunch of teams in a short amount of time. I thought it was kind of cool that some action happened in small beam of light coming through the door window.

>Cole Establishes Himself As A Gunner

>This isn't a great photo or anything, but it's a pretty funny if you know what's going on. Cole had stolen the ball at half court. He dribbled once. By that I mean the ball bounced exactly one time. He then ran with the ball about ten feet to the free throw line where he's standing when this photo was taken. From there, he took a shot and it swooshed in as he fell to the floor. At the same time, Carrie was videotaping as you can see in the background. It would have been great video but the referee walked right in front of her as he shot the basket as you can see in the photo.

>Tristen Walks The Dog

>I photographed my neighbor's child yesterday for their Christmas card. He put on a good show for me.

>Oregon beats Cal 27-20

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>Greta's Birthday Present

>This is a photo from Greta and Cole's birthday party this August. I just ran across it and thought it was cute.

>Greta and Nanny

>Since the kids were just a few months old, we've taken them to my great aunt Helen's house to visit Nanny and get a treats Halloween. This is their seventh visit in as many years.

>Trick or Treat?

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Here's a few snaps from Halloween.

>Cole Makes the Statesman Journal

>Carrie took Cole and Greta to her Aunt Ginger's halloween wedding. A friend of mine, Thomas Patterson who works at the Salem Statesman Journal was there to cover it for the paper. He ended up running a photo he shot of Cole taking photos with his own digital camera. I think he did a good job with it.

>Happy Halloween

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Here's a photo from our annual trip to Lone Pine Farms to pick out a pumpkin.

>Oregon beats Arizona 28-21

>Here's another football gallery from registerguard.com. Click on the link above to see the photos.

>The Glamorous Job of Sports Photography

>As broke camp after sending photos from the bowels of Sun Devil Stadium, I looked out and saw a platoon of leaf blowers leaving the stadium. I was by far the last photographer to leave. I was encamped under the south bleachers sending off a pirated phone line owned the Arizona paper. I was there so late they were locking gates all around me to the point I was wondering if I would be able to escape.

>Seagull Attack

>If it's not dodging goose bombs in the park it's ducking maurading seagulls.

>Cole and Greta Swing and Shoot

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Cole and Greta needed a photo of themselves for a project at school. So, tonight I took them out in the backyard and shot Greta on the swing and Cole with his digital camera. I love over-acheiving as a parent. I can't wait to see their poster on the wall next to all the other crappy posters their classmates parent's slapped together. Is that so wrong?

>Oregon beats Washington 45-21

>Click the link above to see the The Register-Guard image gallery from the Oregon vs. Washington game Saturday, Oct. 15, 2005.

>Oregon beats Arizona State

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I travelled to Tempe, Arizona and shot Oregon beating Arizona State. Click the link above to see the image gallery on the The Register-Guard website.

>Wet Streets

>I shot this from my car while illegally parked in the closed section of 13th Ave. Campus security had already called a tow truck. They let me slide, and I shot this photo.