Where was I?? and what is that

ok so i went to go out photographing this afternoon and the lighting sucked big time. i was already headed to my parents house to go watch top chef so i started poking around. These photographs were taken on their property. (no it is not their house)

out and about

on monday night i went out photographing with a old friends of mina danielle and we meandered around the old yakima mall. I do so wish that i could get in and photograph the empty stores and such. The first is a door handle, the second shot is a painted door in an ally and the third is the ramp into the underground mall entrance.

its been a while but I'm back

So time has flown by and it has been almost 3 months since I last posted. However i am still here and still out photographing. There have been many life changing events in the last few months but i will not get into to those at this time. below are some shots of Camp Fife for my scout camp out of season project. ( it may be a Camp Fife project for it is very heavily shot at one camp)

Curtis Gilbert-Camp fife june
Scout tent 2009

Kitchen GRill camp Fife may 2009

Rifle range camp fife may 2009

Camp Parsons and sunny weather

Sorry i have not blogged in a while but i have been extremely busy with work and such. Luckily I had to go to camp parsons for work the other day and took advantage of the nice weather to shoot a little. We had a streak of 3 days of sunshine here and all took advantage and hung out outside. Irish came with me to photograph and kept on asking "why are you taking a picture of that dad?" or "lets take my picture."

Survey on our Dad.

My sister in-law Trin did this survey on her blog, and I thought it would be fun to do it also. By the way this is Robyn, not Ben.
These answers are exactly how our kids said them.
First, Cole age 3
1. What is something dad always says to you? Cole.
2. What makes dad happy? I don't know, when I kiss him.
3. What makes dad sad? The floor.
4. How does your dad make you laugh? Laugh on the ball.
5. What was your dad like as a child? He had medicine.
6. How old is your dad? A number.
7. How tall is your dad? Bigger.
8. What is his favorite thing to do? Daddy give me a present.
9. What does your dad do when you're not around? Grows bigger.
10. If your dad becomes famous, what will it be for? For cars being presents.
11. What is your dad really good at? Opening presents.
12. What is your dad not very good at? Watching T.V.
13. What does your dad do for his job? In the car and house.
14. What's your dad's favorite food? Eating pepsi.
15. What makes you proud of your dad? Daddy give me a present for free.
16. If your dad were a cartoon character, who would he be? Chip and Dale.
17. What do you and your dad do together? Play around.
18. How are you and your dad the same? Me and daddy like cars, two McQueens.
19. How are you and your dad different? Noses.
20. How do you know your dad loves you? He loves me in the house.
21. Where is your dad's favorite place to go? To right here.

Next, Irish age 6
1. What is something dad always says to you? I don't know, he always says Roo.
2. What makes dad happy? I don't know.Because of Me and Cole.
3. What makes dad sad? When I gone to Maaka's.
4. How does your dad make you laugh? By jokes.
5. What was your dad like as a child? Me and Cole.
6. How old is your dad? 16.
7. How tall is your dad? 16.
8. What is his favorite thing to do? Help you and go to Boy Scouts.
9. What does your dad do when you're not around? He watches T.V.
10. If your dad becomes famous, what will it be for? For working for Boy Scouts.
11. What is your dad really good at? He is good at Boy Scouts.
12. What is your dad not very good at? Of Girls Scouts.
13. What does your dad do for his job? Work for Boy Scouts.
14. What's your dad's favorite food? Everything that we make.
15. What makes you proud of your dad? Because he loves me.
16. If your dad were a cartoon character, who would he be? He would be a Jesus or something.
17. What do you and your dad do together? We do one of my puzzles.
18. How are you and your dad the same? Because we walk our feet on the same step.
19. How are you and your dad different? Because my dad is a boy, and I am a girl.
20. How do you know your dad loves you? Because he likes me.
21. Where is your dad's favorite place to go? To Forks resturaunts.

I hope you enjoy our quirky kids answers.

mountian trip

Over presidents day weekend the family and went to yakima over presidents day weekend. We had alot of fun playing wii, hanging with the fam, and such. On monday I made a Pilgrimage to Camp Fife so i could add to my project. I was there for about an hour and took over 100 pictures and there were about 18-20 were good enough to add to the project and another 14 were turned into a panorama. (which won't load for some reason)

walk on the water

The other day we took a walk on the waterfront trail here in port angeles. It was a sunny day wich is very rare here in the fall/winter/spring time. while the kids were playing on a statue of a seal i went to inspect the waters edge. i found some rocks with etches and hole in them, my guess is man made. anywho I took some shots and then a few out along the strait of Juan de Fuca.

Guitar heros

after christmas visit

After christmas the kids and i went to eastern washington for to visit the family. and in the tru spirit of eastern washington we all got to go sledding...behind a tractor...thru my parents yard. Yes we had alot of fun using a tow strape and a sled. I was even able to drive the tractor for a while. Below is a shot of my father trying to "wakeboard" behind the tractor. he broke his watch when he fell.

waling in a winter wonderland

As most should know we have had a cold snap here in the pac north west. The highs are in the teens ans twentys across the area and eastern washington is in the single to negitive temperatures. Here in port angeles we had about 5 inches of snow come down saturday night then it hasn't gotten warm enough to melt since. we are supposed to get more snow tonight 3 to six inches. This is unheard of for port angeles. on the plus side we have had sunshine, and to me it feels like growing up cold and sunny so i'm not really bummed about it.

here are some shots i have taken the last few days.

The Tree is up!

Our family decided that we have to wait until after irish's birthday to decorate fot christmas. We traveled to our favorite local store swains and they had trees for $20. These wern't charlie Brown trees but full nice looking trees.

The Woman has gone crazy

Tomorrow "we" are hosting a birthday party for Irish. Robyn has decided that she is going to make a special cake for the event. This cake takes an hour or more to back upside down and 8 hours to cool then another 4 hours to decorate. That is 13 plus hours on a cake! On top of that Robyn has to be at work tomorrow at 6:30 am and get off in enough time to have people "small chatty girls" arrive. I will be standing guard upstairs keeping the television entertained during the party.

If this cake works out i know that Irish will love it, and expect it every year.

polaroid fun

On wednesday i found a poloroid kit at a thrift shop. it had a camera, some trays a book on poloriod emultion transfers, and a Daylab 35 (this takes slides and make poloroids out of them) I have no idea how old the film is in the camera or in the day lab but i am having fun learning a new method in photography and no two prints are the same. hopefully i can still find some film to work the bugs out. here are some test shots.

35mm film strip

So i found a bag of film for sale at a thrift store the other day and in it was a bunch of slides of japanese people in the 1950's and their tour of america. along with it was a story on slides and some 8mm film. in the bag as well was a 35mm film strip on the 1957 cadillac. in the following pictures you will see there were slides about animals and pictures of the car. on frame even showed how big the car was compared to the compeditors. Enjoy.

Todays picture came from an event that i attended with an american theme. at the end of the event everybody cleane dup and i saw this and took a shot. it is funny in a sad sort of way with the american flags in the trash can.
Anyway I have decided to do this one time blog tagging thing and respond.

six quirks about me
1. I cannot stand wind chimes. they bug me.
2. If i am standing in an isle at the store/anywhere and somebody walk behind me and just stands where i can't see them but i know they are there i will leave the isle.
3. I search the internet/antique sores/thrift stores looking for information and memorbilia about the scout camp i grew up at.
4. I have the gag reflex of a little girl. dentists and cold medicine hate me for it. Robyn doesn't like cleaning up after it as well.
5. I buy shirts at thrift stores or on clearance. if i think they are cool or funny i will buy it, even if i know it may not fit me. i have probably 75 shirts or more.
6. I cannot sleep with socks on. they attack my feet while i sleep.

ok now that i feel like a freak for doing this i hope you enjoy it. you are a freak too if you think about it.

pumpkin

We carved pumpkins.