tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19959499210068954712011-04-21T15:42:57.864-07:00shaun mowreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413176577974112341noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1995949921006895471.post-35954098373450508872008-12-29T10:39:00.000-08:002008-12-29T10:47:09.765-08:00<div style="text-align: left;">on my Nikon EM<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lZ4BpT911fw/SVkaDBHUrjI/AAAAAAAAACQ/QjKllzairjw/s1600-h/No_Swimming_by_smowrey.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lZ4BpT911fw/SVkaDBHUrjI/AAAAAAAAACQ/QjKllzairjw/s320/No_Swimming_by_smowrey.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285284276837068338" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lZ4BpT911fw/SVka8bFaE4I/AAAAAAAAACg/vBeeFv1x-Bs/s1600-h/You_Lost_Me_by_smowrey.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lZ4BpT911fw/SVka8bFaE4I/AAAAAAAAACg/vBeeFv1x-Bs/s320/You_Lost_Me_by_smowrey.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285285263060898690" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lZ4BpT911fw/SVkZ78NZbmI/AAAAAAAAACI/_ZpaZVlvDRU/s1600-h/Boardwalk_perspective_by_smowrey.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 216px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lZ4BpT911fw/SVkZ78NZbmI/AAAAAAAAACI/_ZpaZVlvDRU/s320/Boardwalk_perspective_by_smowrey.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285284155261283938" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lZ4BpT911fw/SVkZyeg1-II/AAAAAAAAACA/Z6fJfCauGMw/s1600-h/Artists_in_the_background_by_smowrey.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lZ4BpT911fw/SVkZyeg1-II/AAAAAAAAACA/Z6fJfCauGMw/s320/Artists_in_the_background_by_smowrey.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285283992670959746" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1995949921006895471-3595409837345050887?l=hometownstranger.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>shaun mowreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413176577974112341noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1995949921006895471.post-29431164474042091402008-12-27T21:26:00.000-08:002008-12-27T21:39:18.262-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br />These were taken at the Washington State Capitol. I enjoy architecture...<br />looking at it, photographing it, drawing it.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lZ4BpT911fw/SVcOy36jRJI/AAAAAAAAABw/hTS9rfMwPX4/s1600-h/100_1726.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 348px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lZ4BpT911fw/SVcOy36jRJI/AAAAAAAAABw/hTS9rfMwPX4/s320/100_1726.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284708954908345490" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lZ4BpT911fw/SVcOrTp7H-I/AAAAAAAAABo/HWJwJmARgDM/s1600-h/100_1725.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 272px; height: 362px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lZ4BpT911fw/SVcOrTp7H-I/AAAAAAAAABo/HWJwJmARgDM/s320/100_1725.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284708824915845090" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lZ4BpT911fw/SVcOUHtcrtI/AAAAAAAAABg/7sNpHHaewYo/s1600-h/100_1682.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 371px; height: 278px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lZ4BpT911fw/SVcOUHtcrtI/AAAAAAAAABg/7sNpHHaewYo/s320/100_1682.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284708426572410578" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">And if you like Polaroids...google the poladroid. It's an app that makes<br />pseudo-polaroid pictures. You even get to 'shake' the picture while it develops! fun times.<br />Here's a sample with my niece...<br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lZ4BpT911fw/SVcPk5ZgmKI/AAAAAAAAAB4/H19eWgbN_Ys/s1600-h/100_1675-pola.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 326px; height: 392px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lZ4BpT911fw/SVcPk5ZgmKI/AAAAAAAAAB4/H19eWgbN_Ys/s320/100_1675-pola.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284709814300088482" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1995949921006895471-2943116447404209140?l=hometownstranger.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>shaun mowreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413176577974112341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1995949921006895471.post-89923070413572641102008-12-25T11:44:00.000-08:002008-12-25T12:59:07.600-08:00Christmas is my favourite time of year. I love everything about it: the music, the decorations, the sounds and smells, the food, the snow,the generosity, the love, memories, family, friends, the presents, the excitement!<br /><br />And I am fascinated by Charles Dickens right now. Charles Dickens is the bomb dot com [actually, .co.uk, but anyways]. One of his favorite pass times was to, through literature, light up the poor and marginalized, and gently throw the decadence of the 19th Century upper-class in their own faces; and he did it in such a gentlemanly way that most people don't realize, he was one of the greatest prophets of justice of these centuries.<br /><br />This is my favorite quote from "A Christmas Carol," and a picture of my church building [thanks Ji Lee...hope you don't mind! jileemusic.com]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"But you were always a good man of business, Jacob," </span> faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. <span style="font-style: italic;">"Business!" </span>cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again<span style="font-style: italic;">. "Mankind was my business. The common wellfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"</span><br /><br />Love your family and friends so much it hurts today.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lZ4BpT911fw/SVPp8TU3oeI/AAAAAAAAABY/VrKAq1hq2y4/s1600-h/img_0103.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lZ4BpT911fw/SVPp8TU3oeI/AAAAAAAAABY/VrKAq1hq2y4/s320/img_0103.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283824010024952290" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1995949921006895471-8992307041357264110?l=hometownstranger.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>shaun mowreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413176577974112341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1995949921006895471.post-15338510347582778332008-12-23T11:34:00.000-08:002008-12-23T12:03:16.547-08:00I've been reading some books recently. C.S. Lewis and Fyodor Dostoevsky are pretty much the men. Along with Robert Fergusson I'd have to say they're the kings of introductions.<br /><br />And I'm not!<br /><br />The 'start' is always said to be decisive in everything you do, but don't you always look back and wish you would have done it differently?<br />I've labored for several days over how to start this thing I wanted to start, and here are: the fruits of my labor. [dry humour, folks]<br /><br />I'm making this space to inspire myself, and hopefully you can be inspired as well.<br />I'm a thinker and very introspective, so this is a visual space for design, photography, and thoughts that you are welcome to interact with.<br /><br />In moments of creativity things come out of [seemingly] nowhere.<br />I don't know why I called this space what I did, but I think maybe it describes me.<br /><br />Wherever you go, there you are. And you're a stranger, friend.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1995949921006895471-1533851034758277833?l=hometownstranger.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>shaun mowreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413176577974112341noreply@blogger.com0