It’s Prairie’s dad’s birthday today — happy birthday to him from Prairie and me!
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Happy Birthday Royce!
Today marks the 34th birthday of Royce, whom I’ve known since 4th grade. He’s the one on the right, holding the robot that actually looks reasonably robot-ish, as does Cindy’s over there on the left. I’d be the one in the middle, doing my best ‘Kilroy Was Here’ over the (gargantuan) head of a robot that appears to be heavily inspired by ET.
Happy birthday, Royce!
Norwescon 30: Saturday
Finally. After nearly one month and almost six hundred photos uploaded, I’m done with this year’s Norwescon! As fun as it is, as much as I enjoy being there and playing photographer, and as great as it is to get comments from people as they find themselves in the photos…man, this took a while! Ah, well — good-natured grousing aside, it’s well worth it, and I’m looking forward to next year’s.
I’d already mentioned finishing up Friday’s photos a couple weeks ago. Last night, I finally uploaded the last of my photos from Saturday, the only other day I was there.
Saturday’s shots are pretty obviously divided into three sections:
- Random costumes as I wandered around the lobby and hallways of the hotel,
- the Hoedown in Space Saturday night dance at the end,
- and, of course, the post-Masquerade costume gallery takes up the majority of the set. There were lots of great costumes this year. A few personal favorites, in no particular order other than where they appeared in the lineup:
- The Rocketeer,
- the women of Starfleet (complete with Command Panties),
- the Faun family (cutest family ever!),
- the Satyr Handlers (especially the snow leopard and wiccabeast, evidently something of a central character for the group concept),
- the Vorlon,
artvixn‘s geisha kitsune,
- Final Fantasy IX’s Freya in ‘trance’ mode (shiny!),
- and, of course, the jaw-dropping Dar’Rushk the manticore (who battled a mercenary and Xena and Gabrielle, but befriended a unicorn).
Of course, that’s just a small (well, okay, not that small) selection of what was at Con. I did my best to get the best shots I could of everyone I could, and had a lot of fun doing it.
Also (and especially important for those people I got photos of): because I release my shots under a Creative Commons by-nc-sa license (attribution/non-commercial/sharealike), you may share (copy, re-post, distribute, or transmit) the photos, provided that you give me credit as photographer (preferably by linking back to the photo’s page on Flickr, or at least to my Flickr, LiveJournal, or personal pages, but simply by name — Michael Hanscom or djwudi — will work in a pinch). Thanks very much for respecting this — since I’m not trying to make money off this photography thing*, what little recognition I can get is very appreciated!
Thanks much, everyone — enjoy the photos, and I’ll run into you again next year (if not sooner)!
- Though, if anyone would like to purchase high-quality prints of their shots, I wouldn’t be averse to discussing it… ;)
Happy Birthday, Bro!
Today’s Kevin’s birthday — my ‘little’ brother’s turning 31 today. Happy birthday, Kev!
This isn’t an incredibly recent photo of the two of us, but it’s one of my favorites. Taken in the summer of 2001, I was just a few months into living in Seattle, and had a tiny little apartment just a few blocks away from the Pike/Broadway intersection. Kev was driving on one of his cross-country trips (either from Alaska to Emily’s family near Memphis, or vice versa), and stopped over in Seattle for a couple days to hang out with me and his friends Rob and Steve. Steve took this shot while we were wandering around the Pike Place Market on a gorgeous summer day. Later on, Kev tossed a few dollars my way (since I was pretty broke at that time) so that I could check out Bumbershoot for the first time.
Happy Birthday to me!
Happy birthday to me! I turn 34 today (older and older, every year…). Prairie created another of her cute table settings (she kept the black placemats and napkins out from Halloween, but since it’s springtime, some of the pink stays), and I’ve got a little pile o’ presents sitting in the middle. I wonder what’s in them…?
Norwescon 30: Friday
Finally — all my shots from Friday of this year’s Norwescon are processed and uploaded (some shots are mildly NSFW — no outright nudity, some panties-and-pasties). There’s a few random hall costumes to start off with, and shots from the Stardance towards the end. However, the majority of Friday’s shots are from the Fannish Fetish Fashion Show: fashion sets from Notorious Curves and Fetishwear.net; burlesque performances by The Von Foxies‘ Heidi Von Haught and Pidgeon Von Tramp, Miz Ginger Snapz, and Estella E’Strange; plus Project Fetishway and Fannish Idol; all hosted by the lovely Betty Rage.
I’ll be the first to admit that, try as I might, my shots likely aren’t going to be winning any photography awards. ;) Still, I do the best I can, I don’t think they came out too horribly, and every time I do something like this I figure out a few more things to make things better the next time. Many thanks to spitkitten for giving me the opportunity to shoot the show!
Meanwhile, work continues on Saturday’s shots — and since Saturday has the post-Masquerade costume photoshoot, there’s many more photos yet to come!
Me and Prairie, Benson Beach

Me and Prairie, Benson Beach, Cape Disappointment, Long Beach Peninsula, WA, originally uploaded by djwudi.
During our Spring Break trip to Long Beach. Photo by Prairie’s dad, Lon.