Photographing with my assisstant

This week I went out photographing and took Irish with me for a little daddy daughter time.  Irish has a little old digital camera of her own and so we ventured out to one of my favorite spots to start out at, the old Yakima Mall.  Then we snaked around the downtown area and checked out the Larson building wnet down to first street and eventually made it back to the car on Naches Ave.  Irish has quite the eye and enjoyed going with me. 

At one point she said "dad, some of the pictures you take I find boring.  So I'm going to take my own instead."

Her are some of mine and some of her shots.  Enjoy

My Assisstant

Naches Ave

Empty store front

Yakima

Larson Building

These are Irish's

this on is on the Car ride home.  Self portrait.

Hops

Its time for the weekly post.  These shots were taken in Toppenish Washington by Heritage University.  I Started school last week to go back and get my teaching certification for washington state.  This week (if i get time) i am thinking on trying some panorama 180 shots.  I think it might be interesting to do some mondane type of places like a basement, or something.  Thoughts?

Night Photography

I normally don't do resolutions but i thought i'd try something this year.  I plan on going out and photographing at least once a week this year and posting the results here.  Thats right a post a week (at least) for the entire year.  So since i have one in from last week here is this weeks post

Night Photography in Yakima

All of these photographs were taken at night in the almost dark.  I would have taken more but i started hearing gunshots so i decided to call it a night after this.

The Super Bingo is what it says it is.  the coolest part of it is A. the signage and B. The fact that it used to be a grocery store with the same signage.

Road runner deli mart  nothing more to say.

A house on 3rd and mead just right next to the Super bingo.

winter weather and photography

this december is the first time in 5 years that we have had to worry about winter weather and shoveling snow and such.  in port angeles if it snowed the town shut down and it was gone the next day.  so here are som pictures of the kids in the snow.  irish and cole are "sledding" in the dent part of our yard and Cole was helping shovel the driveway.

These are shots of winter in yakima.  our fence new years day, and a shot looking down towards a train yard in yakima.

Hanging christmas lights

My Brother in law Brian is Hanging christmas lights this year for people.  We did a Dentists house yesterday and my main job was to listen for him Screaming in case he fell off the 2 story roof.  Luckily that didn't happen.  last night we went back and took some photographs of his handywork.

Then since I had my camera and well those of you who look at my blog know what type of pictures i take i shot this.

Burger Ranch

One of the Local Burger places in Eastern Washington, (well the Yakima area al least) is Burger Ranch.  The inside and outsides of their building have not been updated since the late 70's by the looks of things but their food is tasty and has that local feel that youdont get at Mcdonalds.  Their old commercials are great especially since they replay the same ones every year.  i cannot seem to find them on the internet though.  too bad.

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