New hair & a new glass

Over the last few days I successfully swapped two of my less than desirable lenses for a mint Sigma 30mm f/1.4 lens. While Nicole was getting a new hairdo at the swanky Hairplay salon; me and da boys went next door to Chow for some appies and beer/limonade. Between the calamari and steamed mussles I snapped few low light pictures and as you can see the lens does indeed work.

Nicole came back and I had to do a double take to recognize her with straight hair and a sixties go-go girl look. With the black polish she's a new woman. Where's the cat suit?

Winter by Sasha

What's going on?

As you may have seen from our holiday card we are in the midst of a reconstruction effort. The reason for the card design is that if we have no time and inspiration for an attractive, sentimental card we might as well produce the most annoying photo that captures some of our daily realities.

So that's us, dressed in jeans and gum boots standing inside a hole next to our house. Soon that whole will be filled with a concrete retaining wall and slab, expertly engineered to withstand 8.0 earthquake directly underneath. In which case the house will be a pile of rubble but the wall will stand as a testament to our desire to do any construction "the right way". As our engineer puts it: When in doubt, build it stout.

The small drawback is that both Nicole and I are great at swinging the sledge hammer, breaking slab and digging holes. Unfortunately we are less talented in filling those holes and constructing something new. So our backyard is covered with not so neat piles of rubble, soil and old lumber. But we will change that and slowly and steadily make positive improvements starting with the concrete wall mentioned above.

So stay tuned, some before and after pictures should start appearing soon.

New Year - New Resolution

As the new year starts and we look inward to better ourselves a number of sincere resolutions bubbles to the top of the imaginary list. Yet again I will floss every day, raise my voice less, and to you, dear reader, I promise weekly blog updates, sprinkled with delightful images of our daily existence.



Today, for instance, we ventured outside into the light drizzle to look at the newly filled creeks and revived waterfalls. Anticipating the sights I brought along the camera and tripod to capture few images of silky smooth water tumbling over glistening rocks.




One more thing - as you may have noticed - I have recently become a fan of the square. Square aspect ratio that is so you may see more of that in later posts.


In the mean time may the new year bring you love and joy.

Jakub