Chilean Flamingos

Chilean Flamingos
Originally uploaded by jonketo

I made a panorama of the new flamingoes at the Woodland Park Zoo. Turned out kind of interesting.

Chilean Flamingos

Flamingo Bath
Originally uploaded by jonketo

I went to the zoo today and saw the new flamingo exhibit. This trip was better than my last trip because I got more photos that I thought were good and I ended up seeing more animals.

You know you own an Impreza when ....

I came across this great thread today. You know you own an Impreza when ....

Sadly, I could relate to most of them.

Diabolica

Diabolica
Originally uploaded by jonketo

I took a trip to Squamish this weekend. It is number three this season. I am pretty amped at how often we are going up there. This time my brother came up with a list of new problems to look at. Surprisingly we ended finding four pretty decent problems. The best find was a 3 star v5 called Diabolica. It is right near Black Slabbath. I think it is probably the best v5 in Squamish.

Qwest Field - Brazil v Canada

Qwest Field - Brazil v Canada
Originally uploaded by jonketo

I created a new panorama today. The pictures were taken at Qwest field during the Brazil v Canada friendly soccer match. Because of policies I could only take my wide angle lens into the stadium, so a panorama was about the best I could do. Enjoy!

Qwest Field During Sunset

Qwest Field During Sunset
Originally uploaded by jonketo

I went to the Brazil v Canada soccer game this past weekend. It was a great game even though it was a friendly. Neither team got blown out and it was a close game to 3-2, Brazil.

The game got me excited about Seattle's recent move to get an MLS team.

Cutting Edge

Cutting Edge
Originally uploaded by jonketo

Had another good trip up to Squamish this weekend. The weather held out and we got two good days of bouldering in. It was pretty chill and we ended up running into lots of people from Stone Gardens, so it felt like a day at the gym.

Epic Fail

Epic Fail
Originally uploaded by jonketo

The last couple weekends I have done some bouldering in Leavenworth and Squamish. The trips weren't failures, but some of the problems were.

179u.net

Some of my photos of the Three Rivers Gorge Dam got picked up on a Chinese site 179u.net. It looks like an auto-generated page that searches blogs and photo sites for materials.

Thats probably the same way Vu on Choir Boys Life got on taggy.jp.

Random Conversation in a Shuttle

Took a shuttle back to my building after lunch today. I had to tell my friend about it. Here is how it went:

‎‎Jon Keto (Avanade)‎‎ [1:00 PM]:
Shuttle driver had some crazy stories.
‎‎Jesse Robbins (MAQ Software)‎‎ [1:00 PM]:
like what?
‎‎Jon Keto (Avanade)‎‎ [1:00 PM]:
Stories about building missles for cold war
‎‎Jesse Robbins (MAQ Software)‎‎ [1:00 PM]:
wtf?
kind of a random story, who initiated that"
‎‎Jon Keto (Avanade)‎‎ [1:01 PM]:
Here is the conversation:
as we are pulling around the back of building
driver says, wish they would chop down the old firs, they are dead
me, it's hard to chop down trees around here
driver, yeah, you would write an evironmental impact statement
driver continues, i had to do that when i was down in the southwest
we were designing missle trucks that had to withstand collisions with cactuses
we spent 3 months writing environmental impact statements
he continued to talk about the hundreds of missles they had on all the trucks, the nuclear subs and the underground trains with missles.
‎‎Jesse Robbins (MAQ Software)‎‎ [1:03 PM]:
wait...missle trucks that could withstand collisions with cacti?
‎‎Jon Keto (Avanade)‎‎ [1:03 PM]:
yeah
I am guessing, so if they needed to shoot missles at Russia these things could make a bee-line to the firing location as fast as possible
‎‎Jesse Robbins (MAQ Software)‎‎ [1:04 PM]:
ah...but from where?
‎‎Jon Keto (Avanade)‎‎ [1:04 PM]:
the southwest, los alamos
‎‎Jesse Robbins (MAQ Software)‎‎ [1:04 PM]:
because places with Cacti and Russia are kinda far
that's one long ass range missle
‎‎Jon Keto (Avanade)‎‎ [1:05 PM]:
yeah, I wanted to make a smart ass comment about the army being ready for the war in russia that would take place in the desert.
During the ride, the driver picked up one of the little microsoft notebooks and said, I got it all right here in my autobiography.
‎‎Jesse Robbins (MAQ Software)‎‎ [1:06 PM]:
huh?
he's off his rocker
or the next best seller
‎‎Jon Keto (Avanade)‎‎ [1:06 PM]:
He is writing about the time before the second world war when everyone was united in support of the war
kids would take aluminum from gum wrappers and cigarette packages and recycle with their moms pots and pans.
Left over fat would be taken to the grocery store and turned into nitoglycerin
He said a store in west seattle had some many coming with fat they had to put up a sign to turn them away
it said "Women, don't bring your fat cans in here"

Schmapped!

One of the photos I took on my trip to New York was put into a new online Travel Guide. See my pictures at the Cloisters in the guide. Click on the museum icon on the map at the left, the click through the pictures and you should see mine stained glass picture. Woohoo!

IronmanTraverse Sequence

IronmanTraverse Sequence
Originally uploaded by jonketo

I played with photoshop some more tonight. I had a sequence of shots of Roger on Ironman Traverse, so I put them together. I did not do a good job of shooting for the sequence. Next time I will have to pay more attention to making the photos food for a sequence. I still think it was fun to try with these photos because of the shadows and I wanted to remove the three other people in the shot. I also posted the originals in the photoshop collection.

... time for bed.

Panoramas Recreated

Empire State Building
Originally uploaded by jonketo

I recreated my panoramas this weekend and put them in their own gallery. I want to try and make it a point to shoot more panoramas when I am out with my camera.

Daily Dick Dose

Daily Dick Dose
Originally uploaded by jonketo

I got bored and played with Photoshop tonight. When we went to Hueco Haychoi took a good sequence of shots of me climbing Daily Dick Dose, so I decided to put them all together. There are actually two more photos, but I thought I three were good.

Bouldering in Bishop

Owens River Valley
Originally uploaded by jonketo

I took a short trip to Bishop this past weekend to do some bouldering. It was a last minute decision to go, but I had a great time. I never fully got used to how high problems were, but I tried a few of them anyways. Even thought the trip was shorter and there were fewer people Bishop certainly gave Hueco a run for it's money as a climbing destination.

Hope you enjoy the pictures.