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Casey's Picnic at Shakespeare Garden

Doing the end of the year catch up again, only this time I’m catching up for two years. This was October 2024, so I didn’t really manage to get caught up last year… at least this is still a going concern.

These are from my friend Casey’s birthday celebration in 2024; I missed her party this year due to having two broken arms at the wrong time (there is no right time). Casey is an amazing human, throws wonderful whimsical parties that, through bad luck and bad timing, I miss about two thirds of. So it goes.

I think it might’ve been Fleet Week? Traffic getting into the city, tons of boats on the bay, planes doing aerobatics, it fits. I think we brought a couple bottles of champagne? And since it was a birthday party, a gift. Real nice day in the park.

Posted by matt on 2025-12-02T07:54:58Z GMT

city at night

Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. This is just a ‘proof of life’ post, if a bunch of photos from January 2024 can be called that. I have to go to bed, but there’s been a reason for the longer-than-usual hiatus, and we’re not out of the woods yet. I’ll try to write more later.

Posted by matt on 2025-11-27T10:24:09Z GMT

Cynthia and Marilyn

I took these… almost two years ago now? They were supposed to be for a photo project, https://www.1in6by2030.com/, but I didn’t really have enough to submit for the prompt, which was something about retiring versus continuing to work. It was winter, in Santa Fe, and mostly I worked my normal job while house sitting for my friend Ben (sorry about your pepper plant, man). But the pictures aren’t bad, and deserve a moment in the spotlight.

Anyway. Blog is migrated to the new setup, old setup is done and dusted. Few bugs still outstanding, haven’t gotten RSS working quite right yet, not sure why. Need to do real deployment and logging, currently it’s pretty duct-tape-and-string type of setup. Ah well. None of that really matters.

Posted by matt on 2025-09-30T06:33:46Z GMT

LoveLab Reunion Dinner

I’m gonna be honest, I thought I worked these up and posted them months ago. I definitely looked at them, but that whole edit somehow didn’t make it to lightroom. Anyway.

Working at warp speed to get ready for Yerevan in 12 days. The reason I went back and found these in the first place is I’m trying to put together a little book of my Driftwood work from the last year. I’d really like to have something with people in it to show folks there, so they can get a sense of what I do. Also I’d like to have something everyone who’s been to one of these can also get.

So yeah, this was the Reunion dinner, which usually happens in the fall after Driftwood. This was the second or third time doing it, and it was really great to hang with everyone. We went to Sausage Factory, had a great meal, took MUNI back to the hotel, and then we went to afters where cameras weren’t allowed. Or maybe I didn’t feel like carrying mine any more. Not sure. I mean, it was just a fairly normal oontz oontz party, but the light is always terrible in clubs. The ROI of risking the $$$ camera just isn’t there.

Posted by matt on 2025-05-24T05:17:11Z GMT

santa fe xmas 2023

These have been awaiting final edits and posting for (counts)… 16 months, more or less. Taken two calendar years ago, when we went to visit Sophie’s family in Santa Fe. Good trip. I remember running around the neighborhood to get the photos of the mountains at sunset two days in a row.

I’m working on getting prepared for the trip to Armenia. Made a gear list that I’ll probably cut down (one system? two? gear doubt is self-doubt projected on objects). Really I need two or three lenses; a wide, normal, and a short tele. On the moto trip I used mostly the 24-70. But since I’m doing portraits I really want the 105/1.4, and I don’t want to not bring the Leica. The 21 and the 35 for environmental portraits, and maybe the noctilux? I don’t know. I mean, I know what I use and I know what works well, I should just take that (meaning the summilux 50). The ‘what ifs?’ will drive me nuts otherwise. So probably the Summilux.

There’s a bunch of other stuff I don’t usually think about when packing that I probably also won’t worry too much about this time. I’ve written about this before. Anyway.