What are the chances?

A few months back, I was in a random furniture store and noticed these pillows. They were nothing special, except for the address on them! It is not only in Sofia, but it is the same street as where my grandmother lived (and Dad grew up). Weird!! I had to buy them. I just got rid of the whippet pillows - damaged by the whippets - so these now grace our family room.

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Lensbaby!

I'm super excited - I just received 2 lensbabies, a birthday gift from Tatko! I've wanted to try these out for a while and I'm glad to finally have these new fun toys to play around with. The creative possibilities are truly limitless. I just had 5 minutes to try them out, so here are the very initial results.

**Fisheye**

**Composer**

And I took this before the lensbabies arrived today. The razboinitzi were lounging around under the watchful eye of Napoleon.

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Tonight at the Brachay house

Another evening at home...

Earth Through a Lens

I just submitted 3 images for another photo competition called Earth Through a Lens. Quoting: The purpose of the show is to underscore the need to improve stewardship of the earth in order to create a sustainable environment. This goal will be realized by exhibiting as many as 50 photographs that focus on (a) the natural beauty of the earth (b) degradation of the environment by human activity and (c) attempts at restoration of the environment.

We'll see what happens. Here are the images I submitted. They focus on c), b) and a) respectively and were taken in 2009/2010. Amanda should recognize the first two :-)

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Oaxaca Pictures!

I finally got around to uploading some of the Oaxaca pictures. I posted them on flickr here: click.

1.11.11 @ 11:11

It's snowing in Seattle again...and I've got the proof: