I went to the premiere screening of the new "Aliens of the Deep" IMAX film. It's a documentary about studying deep sea life in order to understand the possibilities of what life might be like else where in the universe. It was a unique experience to be in a room filled with filmmakers and scientists who worked on the film. Everytime one of the deep sea crew appeared on screen there were cheers. It was all introduced by the directors, James Cameron and Steven Quale. You could hear Quale choke up a bit as he thanked everyone in the room for their parts in the film.

To see your own work on screen is really something. Its one of those things that... once its happened you just want it to happen more. I worked on a sequence which was called the "jovian flyby" during production where we move around the moons of Jupiter. Blur's crew on it was great. It was a very calm and relaxed job.

Its funny... there is a lot of press out right now about the stuff I have done over the past year. It seems like it hit all at once. Its all kind of strange, really. Its like reliving the past year over again.

If you're curious as to what I worked on.. there is Blur's short called "In the Rough" about a caveman who finds life "rough" on his own.

This is another shot from when we went to Sea World on my birthday. The dolphins were practicing for their show, rather enthusiastically I might add.

This picture felt appropriate after not posting for so long. Get it?... I am sticking my head above water again... heh heh.. ok.. it seemed funny at the time.

My computer has been broke for the past month. I just got it back last week and it still is causing problems. : ( But hopefully I can get back to posting pics. I have missed doing it. Its hard to feel like I am getting anywhere if I am not building on this little collection of mine. You might find it funny, but when I get those sudden thoughts of how fast the years are now going by and that I feel like I haven't gotten anywhere or accomplished anything... I think of all the photos I have put up here over the past few years and sigh content. It makes the artist in me feel good.

I thought that the star fish and the rocks in the tide pool display that they were on all had an interesting texture to them.

This was an interesting display of baby sharks in little incubation sacks. They were all quietly squirming their way to adulthood.

Its only three more weeks until freedom. There is always this part of me... it reminds me of owning a dog.. I have to take it for a walk once in a while. : )

Not that it has anything to do with this fish. For some reason it just seemed like the next picture to post after the smoke stacks. I guess it kind of resembles the picture I took of fish in the ditch where I grew up which was in sight of the smoke stack of the power plant.

Its funny, but turning 30 seems a lot younger to me than turning 27 did. I guess it is because it is about the beginning of a decade rather than the end of one. I find myself setting goals of what I want to accomplish in the next ten years and they seem a lot less far-fetched then what I set about to try and did when I was in my twenties.

Yesterday was my 30th birthday. It didn't come as too much of a shock. I have been "almost 30" for three years now. I took the day off from work and Ocala and I made an impromptu trip to Sea World. It was a lot of fun. Just wandered around and looked at animals all day. It was super nice and relaxing, as I have been working crazy hours these days.

I was looking for a photo I took a couple years ago the other day and while I was browsing through them I found a lot of others I took long before forgottengrain ever existed that I thought deserved a little screen time.

A fish with a slow shutter speed at the Minnesota Zoo.