Mirrors, and a Dog

Best. Song. EVER.

Seriously. Watch it, and your mind will be blown.



Major kudos to Ryan for passing it on!

McMinnville Experimentation

More experimental shots with the new camera....

Attack of the Trolls

I've been using the "Troll Face" on Val a lot lately... it involves scrunching your face up as much as possible, arching your eyebrows, and using an intimidating, gravelly troll growl. While we were all down at my parents' house for Thanksgiving, I managed to get everybody into it. Enjoy the Troll Family photo gallery....

Original Troll


Chipmunk Troll


Cranky Troll


In-your-FACE Troll


Crazy Troll


Scary Troll


The Trolls-in-law


Pouty Troll


Sour Troll


Squinty Troll

PS - for those who may not be familiar with all of the Trolls, I've included a handy reference guide for your convenience:

Original Troll - Me!
Chipmunk Troll - My lovely wife, Eva-Lynn (aka, "Val")
Cranky Troll - My dad, Eric
In-your-FACE Troll - My mom, Patty
Crazy Troll - Val's dad, Tom
Scary Troll - Val's mom, Sara
Pouty/Sour Troll - My grandma, "Mimi"
Squinty Troll - Our close family friend, Matt

Troll on!

Givethanksing!

I don't have quite as many pictures of people as I do of random inanimate objects, because as I was taking pictures of everyone I started getting looks like these next four:














The Gopher Hunter. It should be an Animal Planet show.









A gripping book!


Ten minutes later....

Thanksgiving... and an early Christmas

We got to go home over Thanksgiving break... Eva-Lynn and I had hoped to surprise both sets of parents by just showing up at their front door unexpectedly, but we ended up telling them all we were coming. Surprising people in that way is a lot harder than you'd think.... people have a nasty habit of making plans for their holidays. ;)

I also splurged while I was gone.... by buying myself a new digital SLR for Christmas/my birthday/my fun allowance for the next six months. :) It's so AWESOME!!! (A Canon EOS Rebel XSi, with 18-55mm and 55-250mm lenses.) Of course, I spent most of Thanksgiving break taking hundreds of photos. A random assortment if my first experimental shots can be found below. (Even more in Picasa.) I'll have some more Thanksgiving-y ones up soon. :)

Father-son bonding.... Dad also bought himself a nice DSLR camera body for Christmas/birthday/Fathers Day....





A visit to the grocery store...















(As you can see, my favorite new ability is cranking down the f-stop for a smaller depth of field.)




















This is the "Why on earth are you taking so many pictures???" face.



My dad is crazy.... in a totally awesome way. And, believe it or not, quite sober.



If dogs could drive.



BIG dogs



We went mushroom-hunting on the golf course by the Johnsons' house...
That, however, is a golf ball.