Kris, Jessamyn, and Abigail Milo

Playing around with our new ultra wide angle lens

into the tunnel

too close

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First, Jessamyn and I went in halvies on a new lens. It’s an ultra wide angle lens … very cool. Here’s a shot of Abi playing with her balloon (with a lollipop in her mouth):

big reach

Today, we decided to go to the Schenectady Museum. It’s a little pricey ($7.50 per adult) and a bit run down, but there’s a lot for kids to do, which is cool:

she loves computers

not much hydrogen in her

static electricity machine

manually powered electric motor

Abi at Spencer's birthday party

I don’t get to see Abi interact with other kids too much. Jessamyn takes her on play dates during the day when I’m working, and she goes to children’s church during church, but I don’t get to see her … see if she gets scared, or if she understands everything that happening … or if she gets involved. The other day we took her to a friends 2 year old birthday. It was at a day care center type of place and there were many children of all ages, so I got to watch her. It’s interesting to see her having fun, but not really interacting too much with other kids … yet she likes to have them around.

I was going to post something last month, but noticed that in December of 2008 I only posted once, so I wanted to stay true to form for December of 2009.

• The Odd Days Project is over. I have one more photo to post and that’s done. I’m not sure what photo project to start next.
• I may start competing over at dpchallenge again this year.
• I’m in a biggest loser contest with some family. I currently have ballooned back up to 160. My goal is 145 by March 31st … that’s only 5 pounds per month, how hard could it be?
• I’ve slowly started getting back to the gym (very slowly).
• I plan to run a 1/2 marathon this year, even though at the moment I can barely squeak out a 5k on a treadmill (which is much easier)

Only 16 more images left to add to my Odd Days Project and I’m wondering what I should do next. I don’t think I want to keep going with it … I need a break. Usually in the winter time, I don’t take many pictures, but I feel like I’ve gone too long without really trying to make a decent image … though, I am happy with these:

I’ve been thinking hard about changing the website, but I like the way it looks at the moment and don’t want to mess that up. Maybe I’ll start another website … I don’t know. Obviously, I need to give it some more thought.

I haven’t posted in a while, but we actually have a lot going on lately. We bought a new TV (our Christmas gift to each other) and changed the living room around … it looks way different, but much better.

I’ve been buying a lot of photography gear, but haven’t really been able to use it yet … too busy with other stuff. Hopefully this weekend I can make some portraits. I’m eager to test things out.

1800 images mashed together and set to music

[video http://www.miloandpro.com/abichess.wmv click to download]

bought myself one of these (not very exciting for anyone but me, i know):