Dad's Car

1929 Ford Model A. He's had this car longer than he's been married with kids, and yet, it's almost done.

Ryans House, Park City

These aren't his Christmas lights. He leaves these up year 'round.

Salt Lake

This last one I saw up on the hill behind the capitol building. How does one lose their shoe in twenty degree weather and a foot of snow?

The Day After

The best part of coming home is visiting old haunts. This is the Bayou. Just us.

My brother makes fun of us because we like to go visit Kensington. He doesn't understand this was our first home.

So this is Christmas…

Goodnight

Family and snow

Two things rare to So Cal.

Pups

Joshua's Trees

Apparently I started a new Holiday tradition. It seems when we road trip home for Christmas I become too fascinated with the trees I see along the way.

Over the river and through the woods…

My mom and my grandmother and grandfather.

My grandfather's ceiling in his bedroom. When I was a kid this map scared me. I didn't understand how massive the country was or why I was able to see it while lying on his bed.

Ice Show

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Ice shows are kind of strange. It's not quite theater. Not quite figure skating. It exists somewhere in between. Still it has its moments.

Tree

I feel like this tree sometimes.

City of Angels

This is for Matt McLoone who has reminded me repeatedly that I don't shoot enough. Julie and I headed to Anaheim this weekend to see Dane Cook at the Pond. This is LA taken with her point and shoot.

Coast House

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I was going through my photos from Ireland the other day because the other teams from the doc trip were looking for more images to use and I came across this little house from my trip up through the Bloody Foreland in County Donegal.

Mmmm … Turkey Day!

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Turkey Day 2007. Just the two of us and Taos.

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Taaffes bar in Galway, Ireland in the wee hours of the morning after a heavy night of Guinness.

First Guinness

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Matt McLoone enjoys his first of many Guinness in Ireland at the Kings Head pub in Galway on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007.

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Jamie MacDonald performs on Shop Street in Galway, Ireland. This guy has an amazing voice.

VII Seminar in Pasadena

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Gary Knight discussing conflict photography at the VII photo agency seminar in Pasadena, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007.

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From foreground to background, Jaochim Ladefoged, Lauren Greenfield, Christopher Morris, Marcus Bleasdale, Eugene Richards, Antonin Kratochvil and Ron Haviv sign books at the conclusion of the VII seminar in Pasadena, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007.

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Jack Skellington and his dog Zero.

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A young student at the Gealscoil de Hide learns the cello, a traditional Irish instrument, as part of the curriculum of the all Irish speaking school in Oranmore, County Galway, Ireland on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007. Students also learn instruments such as the fiddle and the tin whistle.

Road Bowling

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A contestant in an international road bowling championship throws the "bullit," or 28 ounce iron ball, for County Cork outside of Ballincurrig, County Cork, Ireland on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2007. Road Bowling is an old traditional sport played mainly in County Cork in the Republic and County Armagh in the North (versions are also played in Germany and in West Virginia, U.S.). The sport is scored similarly to Golf and is competitively gambled on by bystanders.

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Two horses stand in a paddock on a private horse farm in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007. This horse farm is the private venture of one man and employs 80 staff members. Although they do not breed horses for selling these two young foals might sell between a hundred thousand euros and a million.

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Sheep stand precariously on the edge of the Bloody Foreland (a particularly rugged stretch of coastline) in County Donegal, Ireland on Sunday, Sept. 30 , 2007.

Ireland I miss you.

Kilkenny Castle

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Kilkenny Castle at night in Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland on Thursday evening, Oct. 11, 2007.

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A toilet stands guard over cut turf in a bog at the Bloody Foreland in County Donegal, Ireland on Sunday, Sept. 30, 2007.

More sheep dipping

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Seamus Boyle dips one of his sheep in a chemical bath in order to kill ticks and maggots which otherwise would destroy the sheep in Killybegs, County Donegal, Ireland on Friday, Sept. 28, 2007. (Photo by Nicholas Draney/Brooks Institute, © 2007)

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Semus Boyle, Paddy Boyle and his dog Jim move sheep across a stream on Seamus Boyle's farm in Carrickcar, County Donegal, Ireland on Friday, Sept. 28, 2007. (Photo by Nicholas Draney/Brooks Institute, © 2007)

St. Columcille Church

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St. Columcille, Church of Ireland in Drumcliffe, County Donegal, Ireland on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007. St. Columcille is the site where W.B. Yeats is buried. He penned his own epitaph in a poem ("Under Ben Bulben") which reads, "Cast a Cold Eye/On Life, on Death./Horseman pass by". (Photo by Nicholas Draney/Brooks Institute, © 2007)

Under Ben Bulben

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W.B. Yeats' grave sits under Ben Bulben (the mountain in the background), which is also the title of a poem ("Under Ben Bulben") which he penned for his own epitaph which reads, "Cast a cold Eye/On Life, on Death./Horseman pass by," in the graveyard at St. Columcille, Church of Ireland in Drumcliffe, County Donegal, Ireland on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007. (Photo by Nicholas Draney/Brooks Institute, © 2007)

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Local Galwegian, Martin O'Driscoll stops for a cappuccino and a cigarette in Galway, Ireland on Friday, Sept. 21, 2007.

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A traditional Irish music session at the Crane Bar in Galway, Ireland on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007.