Day 359 - Food Bonanza

Today after work I hung out with Carey, Jeff, Nicole, and Brendan at Nicole's house. I had them divvy up my remaining food items (there were more than I expected) and in return I got some spontaneous and fun shots of them posing ridiculously. We also tried mulling some mead, which was… not nearly as tasty as I'd hoped. I am going to miss these bastards!

Day 358 - Joey, One Last Time!

I have less than a week left before the big move, so I decided to focus on taking photos that document important places and friends (and their pets!) rather than trying to find artistic or technically challenging shots. Today I hung out with Carey, Jeff, and Joey while I did my laundry. They made me a delicious vegetarian pizza with three types of cheese, mushrooms, olives, garlic, and artichoke hearts. (Well, Joey didn't help with the pizza, but he was awfully adorable.) This shot didn’t come out very well, but I sort of like the muted colors.

day 357 - A Day at Avila Beach

Today I went up to Avila Beach with my awesome friend Ash. We rented a hot tub at Sycamore Springs (which was the perfect thing after all of yesterday's hard work—it helped relax my ankle and the sulfur is so good for your skin) and then had lunch at Woodstone Marketplace (which was amazing—I had a delicious wrap with a sun-dried tomato tortilla, greens, chicken, slivered almonds, avocado, mango chutney, and a balsamic vinaigrette). I took the shot of the ocean as we were driving past on the way back home. Little did I know that there's apparently been a pod of humpback whales right off the coast for awhile now. If I'd only known, we would have stopped and done some whale watching.

Day 356 - Trimmer

Today was an exhausting day. My fantastic parents came down and helped clean up my apartment and I packed like it was going out of style (it is). Although I had an opportunity to take a good shot before or after they left, I didn't think about it until right before I collapsed into bed. So I quickly searched for something and ended up with this (pretty shitty) shot of the blue trimming attachment on an electric shaver. I'm pretty disappointed in myself for "wasting" one of my last shots on something so dumb, but what can you do?

Day 355 - My Street

Since I'm nearing the end of my stay here in Goleta, I want to take a few photos of all the familiar places. And, since I've lived on Davenport (at various addresses) for the last almost 6 years, a shot of the street sign seemed appropriate (and low-stress). I did it in black and white to give it a somewhat stronger impact (and because the sky was really overcast and boring that day).

Day 354 - Cat in a Box

Today was kind of a meh day. Not only did I miss the bus and end up actually walking the two miles to work (not a great idea on my still-fucked-up ankle), but I was not feeling the photography at all tonight. Since I spent a lot of the evening packing, I decided to just take this quick shot of Elim in one of the boxes. The composition is kind of messy, but I guess I could say that that messiness is just a reflection of the overall state of disarray in my house. Or something.

Day 353 - Baxter

Tonight I spent some time with Nicole at Jeff and Carey's house (getting in as much friend time as possible before the big move). Their new roommate has a big goofy dog named Baxter who is completely ball obsessed. For this shot, I just held the ball near the camera in order to get him to stay still and look at me. I wish I'd tried harder to get an action shot of him jumping for the ball.