Posts Tagged ‘friends’

I have had SO much fun this week with my 365 challenge. I started off the week at the California Academy of Sciences, taking a photo of my very first stranger for the 100 Strangers challenge (something I will be keeping up with all year), and wrapped it up with good friends and delicious pizza. I've been enjoying the challenge of discovering new things to photograph and new ways to take pictures. I can already tell that this year is going to make me stretch myself as a photographer to learn new skills and techniques for getting the photos I want. I think a tripod is going to have to be acquired pretty soon too. This is photo 1/100 of my 100 Strangers project. Ian works at the Academy of Sciences in the Tidepool area, and was nice enough to be my first 100 Strangers subject. We got to talking because I was afraid to touch the starfish, but the little kid next to me was all about it. Ian told me that if the kid could do it, I could too. And thus I struck up a conversation with him about abalone. He told me that abalone get a new hole (which they stick their grabbers through to get food) in their shell each year, so you can tell roughly

Way back in October, Rigel, Spencer and I took Akasha to a Pumpkin Patch to pick out our Halloween pumpkins. Being a whole year older than our last visit, Akasha was much more involved in the choosing of pumpkins.

A few years ago I though babies were pretty funny looking. I guess that's changed because I had a blast last weekend at my friend Brook's birthday party for her 1 year old son Carter. Brook and David moved to Salt Lake City last year, and they're really good about blogging about their adventures so far away. Even though I feel like I know what's going on with them, it was great to see Carter in person and see how much he's grown since the last time I saw him.

This weekend my friend Rigel and I went out to Spring Hill Farms' Peter Pumpkin Patch in Petaluma (say that 5 times fast!) with Rigel's 1 year old daughter Akasha. Akasha loved the pumpkins and Rigel and I loved the homemade Pumpkin ice cream. We took the opportunity to take some pictures. I haven't seen his yet, but here are mine!