raven portrait

raven portrait
Originally uploaded by flappingwings.

Someone else on flickr took this excellent picture. I love ravens and crows...

Waiting for the Half Blood Prince

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Originally uploaded by funkyj.

Harry Potter

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Originally uploaded by funkyj.

and the Half Blood Prince went on sale today. This picture is of the release party at Bookshop Santa Cruz.

The Court of Mysteries

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Originally uploaded by funkyj.

When I win the lottery I will buy the Court of Mysteries.

Until then I'll have to content myself with a few pictures. I have more pictures of this eccentric decaying homage to the brick layer's art. I'll be adding pictures taken in a morning light sometime later.

Farewell Mike

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Originally uploaded by funkyj.

Mike Berg, a good friend of mine, died last year. Recently I uploaded some pictures to flickr that I took at a party celebrating Mike's life. The two pictures shown here are pictures of Mike before we met.

you can see larger versions of this picture by clicking the picture (this takes you to flickr) and then clicking the all sizes button above the picture.

You may recognise Mike's name as the one you see if you follow the blog sensei link on the left side of my blog page.

Cafe Brazil

Cafe Brazil
Originally uploaded by funkyj.

My mother in law is visiting this weekend so we went to Cafe Brazil for brunch. Normally we wouldn't bother going out to brunch at such a late hour (10h30) on a holiday weekend but with company visiting you have to do crazy things. The food was good (as usual), after the interminable wait.

There are more of my photos of Cafe Brazil on flickr.

Loulou au frais

Loulou au frais
Originally uploaded by pascale une autre.

cruzing other folks photos on flickr is fun! This is a recent favorite of mine.

Le Boeuf Quintet

Le Boeuf Quintet
Originally uploaded by funkyj.

There was a swinging groove goin on last night at the Kuumbwa as the Le Boeuf Quintet played their first show to a enthusiastic home town crowd.

Check out the Le Boeuf brother's official website and buy a CD!

menage a trois

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Originally uploaded by funkyj.

More Santa Cruz tide pool stuff.

On the movie front I recently watched The Motorcycle Diaries (about Che Guevara) and 'The Last Metro' (oooh, Catherine Deneuve). Both were very good. I really liked the acting and directing in Metro.

sea grass

sea grass
Originally uploaded by funkyj.

this hasn't been mowed in a long time.

I love this color green.

Relaxing by the ocean

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Originally uploaded by funkyj.

tilted horizon, oh well.

tree, cliff

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Originally uploaded by funkyj.

Amy and I did some reading.

contemplative

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Originally uploaded by funkyj.

I went to the beach today.

Word association football and peen hammer smith & wesson pure canola oil addiction.

Astronomers have directly confirmed the existence of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker (pictured), previously believed to be extinct since 1944 when the English explorer James Knight died on an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage.

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Originally uploaded by funkyj.

Isn't London romantic? It isn't easy photographing a kiss when you are the kisser and photographer.

BTW, the nice folks over at Flickr.com gave me 2 free Flickr Pro accounts to give out as gifts.

If you are a friend of mine and want a Flickr Pro account drop me a line. If I don't here from anyone I'll give 'em away to strangers.

Portland

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Originally uploaded by funkyj.

Catching ticks

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Originally uploaded by funkyj.

Lots of wildflowers (and the ubiquitous ticks)

I signed up for a Flickr Pro account and have been posting photos there. In addition to hosting photos Flicker, conveniently enough, has a very simple interface for posting flicker photos to various blog sites (including this one). Flickr rocks, I only wish they'd hurry up and provide a picture printing service.

Flickr has a variety of ways to browse photos:

• by photo sets (i.e. albums)
• by tags
• by calendar
  

you can browse an individuals photos by tag or you can see all public photos on flickr with a particular tag (e.g. montmartre , fish or elbow).

Flickr also has groups for likeminded photographers to share and discuss photography and flickr related topics. I haven't had time to delve into flickr groups much.

I gotta bounce now dawg. Peace out,
--jfc

Greenbelt

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Originally uploaded by funkyj.

I took the dog out for a walk and took some pictures too.

Two hungry crows, one biscuit

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Originally uploaded by funkyj.

Movie: Amelia and I watched Ray last night to prepare for the Oscars. The movie was really good. Jamie Foxx definitely earned his best actor award. I give this one 4 stars. The acting is top notch but some of the cinematic devices used to move the plot along detract from the experience.