happiness is watching your family dance, in the kitchen, to the pogues fairytale of new york. may your (and our) 2013 be only slightly less exciting than 2012.
for christmas, my brother gave me a old-style, fixed 50mm lens — basically an updated version of what i used to used when i shot black and white film on my old Canon AE-1 twenty years back.
See Slideshow of the Photos on Flickr: black & white
on christmas night, with 10 people and 2 dogs in the house, our washing machine flooded the basement and our main floor toilet stopped flushing. but when we woke up the next morning, there was a plumber parked out front of our house to service one of our neighbors. it’s a christmas miracle…