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I’m working on a new blog created using my own code. I want more control over my page. So i’m going to let this blog die for now. For current blog updates head over to http://c-barnard.livejournal.com

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For today’s walk i went down to a local school. It was a short walk compared to yesterday’s 9 miles and blisters. Tomorrow i’m planning a 10-11 mile walk so i deserved a bit of rest. Anyway i went to the school with the intention of getting a cool moving clouds at night shot. I did get one indeed. I like the shot, it’s not awesome, but i’m satisfied. Well until tomorrow that’s all.

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Yesterday I walked to school instead of my usual biking or driving. It took around 28 minutes which isn’t bad at all and it allows me to listen to the podcast that i follow. Right now i’m following TokyoCalling which isn’t updated too often, but i’m listening to the back episodes. I’m on 82 of 119, so i’m getting close to catching up. It’s not the type of podcast that i expected, but i really enjoy Scott’s voice and he usually talks about interesting things. So go give it a listen and see what you think. After classes my girlfriend came over to campus on her bike and we were going to walk around. I’d been wanting to head to Fairbanks hall and check out the art gallery so we headed that way. Unfortunately the exhibit i wanted to see had just been taken down and they were preparing for the next exhibit. As i sulked away i noticed these pine cones which I’ve never seen before. I liked them a lot and decided to snap a picture. So while one door was closed another was open. Do you like the pine cones?

-Curtis

Aren’t they just too cute? This is a photo from my walk two days ago. It wasn’t just a walk for walks sake like i planned to do, but my girlfriend and i walked to the theater to see the new Indiana Jones movie. The movie was good, but not awesome. Definitely doesn’t stick with the typical Indiana Jones style of plot. Anyway after the movie we began to walk home, but decided to walk over to a little pond/storm water runoff area where the ducks hang out. Well the babies were out and were a great photo subject. They remind me of my chickens that i got a year ago. Baby birds are just so cute. That’s the photo of the day, i hope you enjoyed it.

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A couple days ago i decided to go on a walk or bike ride once a day and take my camera. Then i would upload my favorite photo from the excursion to here and talk about it. Well I’ve done everything, but upload the photos for the past couple days so I’ll try to post a few pictures today.

I’ll give you guys more than one photo today though as an apology for not uploading a couple days ago. First my girlfriend and i went out to eat at Tommy’s 4th Street Bar & Grill. I wrote a review for them over at yelp. If you click their name above it’ll take you to their review page. Here’s a little excerpt from my review:

“Cajun fries where pretty good. I’ve never had fries like them before. Prices where about $2-3 more than what i think the food was worth.”

After that we walked around downtown a little bit. We went to the top of the Corvallis Towers, which are 6 stories tall! ha ha anyway it was a nice view so i think we might go to the restaurant sometime this summer. I’ll take my camera and get some nice night shots of the city.

We then started to head back home, but stopped by a Central park downtown. We had a good time with all the other little kid there. We slid down the slide, swung on the swings, and rocked on the spring rocker thingies. I’ve always loved going to parks, there’s just something about letting all inhibitions go and being a kid again. So while my girlfriend was swinging i took out the Sigma 10-20mm and snapped a photo of her. Looks like good fun doesn’t it? Man already this post is taking a while to type what with all the alignment of photos and such.

After the park we continued our journey onward. While walking we had been looking at plants in peoples yards and i was looking out for a good plant to photograph. We finally came across some stunning Iris’s. I decided to use the 50mm f/1.4 and tried to get the detail in focus and let everything else just fade out. What do you think? Does it work? I think it’s my favorite photo of the day. I really love the colors, even though it’s a sort of dark blueish/purplish and should give off a depressing feel it makes me happy!

WOW! i need to be a little more descriptive because it’s fairly hard to write enough so the photos line up well. This would be far easier with one photo, i guess this can be my motivation to make a post a day with one photo. Back to the story at hand. After wandering through peoples front yard looking around for good photo opportunities we went to Borders to have a nice read. I don’t know what you guys are like, but i love going to book stores and just browsing around. I’m a HUGE book guy and i own a fair amount of books, but i can always have more. I always want more information and books are a great source. Another reason book stores are fun is to watch people. You can look at people and guess what books they will read and they might surprise you by reading something totally random. Well this guy was reading what i would expect him to read. Manga. I’m not a huge mange fan, i do own a couple, but they are real Japanese versions for my own study i guess. I don’t know manga has never really captured me the way anime has. I think this guy would beg to differ though. Plenty of other kids and adults roam about borders reading manga too. It’s surprising to see how popular it is now.

Finally i’m on the home stretch! I can see the finish. Let’s see i guess i should tell ya’ll I’m a big drug advocate. I believe all drugs should be legal. I’m not just some young punk that wants to get wasted all the time. I just think drugs should be legal to use in the privacy of your own home on your own body. Drugs do not hurt anyone, but the user and in the “land of the free” citizens ought to have the right to use drugs. One of the sections i regularly visit when at a book store is the drug section. This visit i was reading Cannabible 3 By Jason King, which by the way was very interesting. While i was reading the book though i realized i was one isle from the kids section. I couldn’t believe they would put the sections so close together. I mean i don’t really think it’s a bad thing, but i would assume a company like borders would realize their book placement. At least some complainer would come along and yell at Borders for doing such an irresponsible thing, alas the books still remain though. I snapped the photo of the Cannabible one top of some kids books, but i used too much bokeh. Oh well i could have done better on the photo, but i still like it. Well folks that’s were this story ends. I hope you enjoyed the journey and please watch your step when exiting this blog.

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I’ve released the 4th vLog, check it out and let me know what you think:

Peace,

Curtis

The third in my series of vLog’s is up. Please let me know what you like and dislike!

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My girlfriend and i went down to the Corvallis Farmers Market once again this past Saturday and took some pictures. This time i also took a 50mm f/1.4 and a D300 along with me. I’m pretty happy with the results. I’ll post some of my favorites below and if you want to see more click on the pictures to head over to my flickr stream.

Thanks for looking,

Curtis

The second vLog is out:

Any questions or comments?

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Well today me and the girlfriend went to the farmer’s market. I’ll get to that in a minute. First i want to point you to one of my local news sites for some cool videos. Head over to:

http://www.katu.com/features/familymatters/go_green

There’s about 25 videos, and they are on being green or Eco-friendly or whatever. I’m kind of getting tired of all the “green washing”, but these videos are quality. They are pretty short maybe a minute or two long, go ahead and watch them ya might learn something!

Ok onto the main topic. Well i was surfing the net today and i was reminded that today was the first day if the Corvallis farmer’s market and it was closing down in an hour or so. I got my camera stuff together and told my girlfriend to get ready and we were off.

We got there and it was far more crowded than i expected and i was thrilled as i could use my new lens(Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6)! If you’ve watch my first vLog then you know why i’m excited. Any here’s a few pictures that i liked:

This first photo is a gentleman from the OSU organic growers club and a kid learning how to make pots out of newspaper and plant a seed. The pot maker is really cool, it’s just a simple 2-piece wood thing. If anyone wants pictures i have pictures from the box.

Pottery classes are taught at LBCC and OSU by this gentleman. My girlfriend was talking to him about pottery as i snapped this picture.

The above two were two of the more interesting things that passed by in the impromptu parade. Maybe it wasn’t impromptu, but it sure felt that way and i loved it.

Here some kids gather around a girls pet goat, i wish i had a pet goat.

After the farmers market we headed over to American Dream pizza and got a couple slices:

Hmmm. What to start with?

The view on the inside.

I’m almost done coloring my plate!

My girlfriends finished product.

This lady was riding a interesting bicycle No….. rather bipump? She pumped up and down to move, very interesting indeed.

If the pictures end up cut off by the page then just click on them and it will take you to my flickr page with the picture. It was a fun day and you’ll probably see more entries with pictures throughout the year of the farmers market as i love to go there. That’s it for now.

Peace-Curtis