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It seems over the past few years that I find myself in California, specifically Los Angeles quite a bit. The first time I went was in December 2008, with my friend Elizabeth for the very first ever Unique LA. Ever since I have been back 2-3 times a year, for Unique and Renegade, spring, summer and winter shows. I have never done all that well at shows in LA, but it is such a great excuse to visit all of our Portland friends that live there, as well as all of my art friends.

I took these shots last December while staying with my friend Amanda the week before the Renegade Craft Fair. Photos taken with the Lomo LCA, and cross processed slide film. December 2011 - Santa Monica, CA.

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The past two Octobers have brought me to Washington DC for a fun filled weekend of museums, monuments and art fairs (crafty bastards). Apparently my film from that time decided it wanted to develop all green, something I need to work on changing. These are my photos from that lovely weekend in 2011, taken with a Lomo LCA and cross processed slide film. I particularly love the ones that I was experimenting with the Splitter adapter.

Hopefully I will be in DC again this October, and if so, I really need to venture outside of the museums. Although I still have yet to make it to the Air and Space Museum, which I haven’t been to since i was about 7.

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Last year in September, I went to visit my family down south in Georgia. I stayed for a week before heading up to DC for the Crafty Bastards show. We went swimming, watched the kids soccer games and my brother in law took us out on the river for a sunny day boat ride.

These are the very few photos I took with my Lomo LCA while I was there.

Kingsland, GA, Sept 2011, Crossed Processed Slide.

Here are some random multiple exposures that I took with my Lomo LCA and the adapter called the Splitter. I dont use it very often, but I am still learning how best to use it.

This is happening, I am leaving Portland today for my 2012 road trip to Austin. First stop Los Angeles to sell some art at Unique LA. Then a fun week of camping and national parks, as we make our way across the south, back to Texas for some good times to be had in Austin, selling art at the Renegade Craft Fair, swimming at Barton Springs and listening to some local music (Dan Dyer) at the Continental Club.

I will be blogging about our trip on my travel blog, www.dotsandphotos.tumblr.com

These photos were taken on my 2011 trip to Austin, with a Lomo LCA, and cross processed slide film.

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Day 4 - New Mexico

After leaving the Grand Canyon the day before, we drove until we just couldnt bare it any longer and stopped somewhere in the middle of nowhere, just before the New Mexico border. When we woke on day 4, there was this fantastic painting on the cafe across the street and we knew we just had to have breakfast there before we hit the road. I wish I could remember the name of the town and breakfast place, because it was super yummy.

Around lunch time, we found ourselves driving through a little town in NM called Pie Town, how could we not stop and have a piece of pie. There are only two pie cafes in town and we stopped at the one on the side of the road in the direction we were headed. Other than the pie, the best part about this stop was that they had a guest book and I always sign guest books when I come across them on my travels. Well the next day I got a call from a friend back in Portland, to tell me that our friend who was hiking the continental divide, had happened across Pie Town the very next day and signed his name in the guest book, right under mine, small world.

We ended our day in Las Cruces, NM at my friends Stacey and Robert’s place. Love those two.

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Photos taken with a Lomo LCA, cross-processed slide film, May 2011.

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