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A few months ago I bought a new Canon Rebel XS, the first time I've owned a digital SLR since I had $2k of gear stolen back in 2005. I've been surprised how much I've had to relearn about photography, after several years away - in particular, my eye for both lighting and framing is just not quite what it used to be. With all the travel I have coming up, I'm really excited to have good gear again, though, and to be getting back in the photography groove.

I assembled the following photos for a book that I gave Emily as a going away present in July 2009. The book was 40 pages, and included about a dozen full page pieces like these, blank pages for writing on, and a bunch of snapshots from our years together. Sorry, folks-in-the-know, but the soft-core shot isn't going online.

Marx Cafe is where Emily and I went on our first date. Whether she was wearing cowboy boots or just slutty non-cowboy boots is a subject of much debate, but I commemorated it nonetheless with these hippie-cowgirl shots of Sonia. She's drinking Makers Mark, Emily's preferred bourbon, and chewing on some grass that I found outside while I waited for her to arrive.

Now that my graduate days are behind me, and I've found a job that I plan to stay at for quite awhile, and my academic & political blogging is housed elsewhere, I've begun rethinking (again) what to do with this space, and plan to shift it towards crafts, gardening, photos, and the other things I love about my life in DC.