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 About a million years ago, or maybe a dozen or so, I was eating in a Mexican restaurant in Bellingham and I noticed a print on the wall. I found it fascinating. 

I took a picture of it. Charles M. Russell (1864-1926) was the artist. After some searching I found a print of the same painting, err, print. I'm pretty sure the Mexican restaurant in Bellingham didn't have an original. So I found the same print in a poster form and ordered it some three years ago and it's been in a tube behind my dresser ever since. 

Until today. I finally got around to buying a frame for it. It took some time to find a frame this big. It's just over 2' by 3'. Big. And now it's on my wall. 

It took twelve years. Still figuring things out. But I've learned good lessons along the way. 

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 There's a story here. I have no idea what it is. 

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 Clean your cell phone camera lens. I need to get better at it. Also craving a Ricoh GR IV with the 27mm prime focal length. I was stuck in 35mm for a long time but have recently been splitting my time between a 24mm and the 35mm. 

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 Old friends. 

26-7-1

 Canada Day. 

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Sometimes you get three pictures. Not very often. But sometimes.

 

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 I built these stairs about 16 years ago. They are due a rebuild. I didn't know what I was doing then. I know better now. Still, 16 years isn't a bad run. 

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 $130k Foundation Series Cybertruck wrapped in blue with a camper insert made of plywood and painted with trim paint. The panel gaps on both are atrocious. 

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 Some tech goes unheralded. Brilliant stuff that just works for decades. 

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 Lou Barlow played a solo show at the Rickshaw. And it was really good. 

I've been listening to some form of Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh, and Folk Implosion for 30+ years. 

On a random trip to Toronto a bunch of years ago I walked into the Horseshoe Tavern and bought a cheap ticket to see Sebadoh. 

And tonight Lou played an accoustic set at the Rickshaw. 

He writes beautiful, sad, soulful songs. And I feel lucky to have seen him play live twice. 

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 The world's worst avocado tree. Charlie Brown is jealous.

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Two generations of a family ran a shop out of this space which opened in 1920. Over 100 years of selling imported Italian staples. Angelo Tosi died in the early spring at the age of 93. 
 

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 Colour photographs that look like black and white photographs. Photographs that look like paintings. 

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Bonus picture day. I can't remember the last time I missed a day. It's been a while. 
 

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 FIFA is coming to Vancouver. We're wrapping the dome. 

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 When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. 

I'm digging the 14mm lens but it's been a long time since I've shot with something so wide. It's going to take a bit to remember how to use it. 

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