This blog is not dead. Just so you know.
He very nicely stood still and let me put this silly hat on him. AND let me take the picture!A night of partying in Oslo. Phil's big head and a disco ball...like a planet with a moon.
I met this girl in 2006 in Cambodia, when I was wandering around the ruins of Angkor. This was in Ta Prohm temple. She was so pretty and curious. I showed her the picture I took with my camera screen and she pranced around like a supermodel after she saw it. Too funny.
Today is twofer day, as I haven't uploaded a pic in a while. This is a coworker of mine from a trip to Svalbard in the Arctic we took last August. Hmm, I should find the one he took of me, shouldn't I?
He very patiently lets me jump around and take these pictures. He's not quite as gracious when he finds them on this blog, but I like this one. Those signs are pointing right at his head!
That's me and my friend Keith. It was his "hmm hmm" birthday party. I don't remember why I was making that face, but I am posting this shot because it's very unusual that I allow myself to be photographed without a pose....I think Gilly (Keith's wife) got this shot on the sly.
When I was 9 or 10 I was obsessed with the family copy of Strange Stories Amazing Facts , this book put out by Reader's Digest. I read it forward and backwards, it was my Bible, I got it all manky and ruffled from so much poring over it. It was all about world history and the oddments of civilization, perfect for a history geek like me. From it I developed a yearning to travel and see places like Hay-on-Wye in Wales, Versailles, Venice, Stonehenge, Loch Ness, Karnak, Abu Simbel, Angkor Wat, Ephesus and Petra. So far I only have Petra left on the list. This picture of me and Grant is an example of abject failure as applied to bighead photography. The general idea is to get the heads INTO the picture.
OK, yes, we were drunk.
I was lucky enough to get to join in on a geological study trip to Svalbard, in the Norwegian Arctic. It was the trip of a lifetime, and I will never forget it. (Plus i celebrated my 40th b day there!) The thing that made this experience beyond special was the people, my coworkers.
My big head in front of the Semsvannet in Norway. The lake is really quite large, quite gorgeous and one of my favorite places in the world. I walk around it frequently. See the tiny cow in the background? The cows there all wear cow bells. It feels so damned European, you know?
