Posts tagged Mike Ambs
7 x 7 Week of December 25- 31, 2011
1) A sweet little funny seal playing with the kids at Aquarium of the Pacific.
2) Mike trying to do a pull up with Xander attached :P
3) Xander playing after I took his portrait with my 4x5s
4) Xander reading Captain Underpants under the bed
5) Xander picking up Maeby during a visit to Griffith Park
6) Xander likes to write gibberish and then have Mike and I read it. He giggles and giggles!
7) New Years confetti!
7 x 7 Week of NOvember 6-12, 2011
1) Mike harassing Maeby because, you know, he hates her :P
2) Mike complaining about no jets in the hotel tub. There were jets in the other bathroom :P
3) Wolf playing with a guy at the San Diego Zoo.
4) giraffes!
5) snoring bear
6) Mike running in a field somewhere between San Diego and Julien.
7) model train museum in San Diego
7 x7 for the week of September 18-25, 2011
1) Maeby and Vu are reunited after being apart…for hours!
2) Lan slices and dices a water bottle.
3) Mike working on stuff, listening to the Drive soundtrack.
4) Driving around…
5) Driving around listening to the Drive soundtrack.
6) Angeline showing us the fire escape at National Headquarters.
7) Maeby is exhausted from sleeping all day.
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
~ Anais Nin
Mike took this photo of Maeby and myself on my birthday. Yes, we have matching scarves. Judge me and you’ll get a raspberry.
My birthdays are generally uneventful. I’ve never really liked my birthday. My 18th was pretty alright, but other than that I don’t get too excited. I do enjoy seeing my brother, sister and step-dad for dinner. I missed doing that this year. Xander is in Michigan, but he drew me a picture with unicorns and told me I should paint the house like my favorite imaginary place. I thought that was the best idea ever and have plans to do just that - I just need some paint brushes. And paint.
Mike hand made my 3rd addition to my birthday book series. It’s pretty amazing, having a story written about you, for you, every year for your birthday. I am most certainly spoiled.
I also was given my lost locket on my birthday. Several days before I had lost my very sentimental locket with Xander’s photo inside. It’s indescribable, not seeing him everyday. The locket is symbolic of my love for Xander and reminds me of why I’m here and I lost it. I was a little depressed. Apparently Mike found it the same day but decided to keep it and give it to me later, because he’s a punk.
In the end it was a quiet day spent being quiet with my boom-anime-maebs (Maeby) and Mike.
If you wished me a happy birthday, thank you bunches *hug*
Maeby and I - 33rd Birthday (by ericarhiannon)
The other evening I had a D7000 and a set of Elinchrom rangers at my disposal. The Elinchrom’s are so nice, compact and brilliant! I wanted to shoot with the D7000 so I could do a 4 word review. Mike reluctantly agreed to model, in my Dad’s vintage 70’s shirt no less.
Thanks for posting this Jon! You beat me to it :) Here’s the description, just updated, I wrote on Vimeo:
I’m over a week late writing a description for this video. In all honesty I never expected it to get so much attention! This was my first time at SXSW and my first time shooting video with my 60D. I’ve never shot video other than clips on my iPhone so it was a good learning experience.
Mike and I took 3 days to drive to Austin and 2 days driving back (thanks to Vu for being our driver on the way back!) Road trips are the devil, but I could possibly be talked into another one if I was promised the same awesomeness that is SXSW.
I feel special (and thankful) to be a part of the Vimeo/CNN project and to tag along and hold the boom while Mike and Zadi filmed for I Heart the Web. I wish we could have stayed for all the music, next time that has to happen.
Thanks for all the lovely and kind comments. I’m happy you all have enjoyed the video!
That is all…
#sxsw Wrap up video by @funshine. Great music, great presentation. ;)
Portrait by Mike Ambs, taken on our photo adventure at the Old Los Angeles Zoo.
Yesterday was saturday and like so many saturdays my neighborhood was filled with yard sales. I snagged a giant jade plant and a old Minolta x-700 with a bag full of lenses, batteries, filters and adapters! I used my Dad’s old Minolta in college so this is a really exciting find for me. I have a brownie and a holga, they’re fun but I really missed having a 35mm manual slr.
Today Maeby and I woke Mike up with kisses and an offer to head out to the old Los Angeles Zoo at Griffith Park. I wanted to test out my new camera! I had some Kodak 400 film laying around so I loaded that up. We spent most of the afternoon climbing around and taking photos with the Minolta, video with our new Canon 60D as well as our iPhones :P I was feeling really good, super excited about the shots I got. Then, on our way out, I wanted to snap one more pic but needed to change the role of film. I thought I had rewound it, but upon opening the back of the camera I found I had not. Well, about 1/8 had rewound but the film ripped and left most of the roll exposed.
Yeah, it’s been that long….as I was turning the little film rewinder thingy there was a bit of resistance and an odd noise for a turn but then it stopped so I kept on winding. I should have known better but I opened the back anyway and ruined all but two photos.
Hungry and frustrated we retraced our steps to try and re-take a few shots. The light was totally different and some shots we couldn’t even begin to recreate, the majority of the roll I had developed is just us in the Target parking lot.
Despite the loss I’m happy with how the camera works and what shots we did get. I had fun crawling around in abandoned zoo enclosures taking photos and video with Mike. Film is fun.
This shot is probably my favorite. We took Hipstamatic shots of this location too. Mike and I both had a hard time focusing the camera and I think Mike did a good job on this one. Plus all the wet slimy, rusty overgrown awesomeness is awesome.
