New Blog

I'm doing a little reorganizing and the address of my blog is changing. Coffee and Photos at blogspot will still remain around. There's no need to get rid of 2 years of archives. The new blog will be andydelisle.com/journal.

Please update your links.

Thanks for your patience,
andy

Naked Cowboy on New Years Eve

New Years Eve I went out to Glendale to cover the celebration at Westgate. The highlight of the night for me was the Naked Cowboy.

Fiesta Bowl Parade

My new apartment is just off the parade route here in Phoenix. So it was no surprise to wake up on a Saturday morning before New Year's to find marching bands marching and giant balloons floating within sight of our front door.

Arielle and I grabbed out cameras and headed out. We ended up on the roof of her office building.

dusting off the F3

During our move, I came across my Nikon F3. Turned out it still have half a roll of Ilford 100 in it. I quickly finished off this roll and started to get a taste for shooting film again. Turned out I need to get some film and shoot some photos of hte damage in our old apartment. That taken care of I still had a couple rolls left, so in stead of taking my digital camera out with me, I grabbed the extra rolls and the F3.

Arielle and I had some time to kill downtown so we wandered around and did some street shooting. On our way to towards the Chase Field, we found our own no flash corner.

Liz lives downstairs at the old place. She's one of the more awesome people we've met in Phoenix.

I won these sauces at Arielle's boss' ugly christmas sweater party. Yes, my sweater was the ugliest one of all the guys there. I had hit up two different Goodwill stores to find everything I needed for it. Arielle decided spelling hate was more interesting than heat, go figure.

The new apartment is very close to the parade route here. More on the in another post. The evening after the parade, we wandered to grab some dessert. The road was still closed while the city broke down the bleachers from the parade.

Dancing with the Stars

Friday I got a call from the AZ Republic. They had a last minute assignment for me. Four words I never expected to hear... Dancing with the Stars. I've never seen the tv show much less expected to cover the tour. Turned out it was more like shooting a concert than I expected. I got to shoot the 2nd, 3rd and 4th songs then I was done.

Christmas Day at Aunt Toni's

After getting home after midnight on Christmas Eve, we went to bed. Christmas day, I got up early and started editing photos from the night before. When Arielle got up she helped me put together a slideshow from the previous night, which the cousins loved.
Overall the day was more relaxed than Christmas Eve, but just as fun.

The Wedding Photo

Last week Ray posted a preview of our wedding album and let us know we would have it soon. Friday, Arielle and I received the album. It took a little longer than we expected, but it was worth it. Arielle and I were brought to tears several times.

We both wanted to thank everyone who was involved, Ray and Jared for putting it together. Tim, Lisa, Ray and Taylor for all the wonderful photos. Mom and Dad for all the support through the years. Tom for all the help getting things ready for the day. Jill, for opening up her home for our special day. Jill, you're an awesome neat lady, thank you. Mario and Darcy for the amazing food and making it legal. Laura and Vinny for all your help. Alyssa for being such an awesome little girl, who we were honored to have as our flower girl. Jak for your help with the music. Plus all our wonderful friends that that came from near and far to help make our day one of the best days of our lives.

After the wedding Ray and Tim dropped us off at the Sheraton in Downtown Raleigh. Arielle and I didn't get to eat much at the wedding but we enjoyed leftovers and a bottle of wine in the hotel room.

Jen and Merritt picked us up the next day and we hung out at Cup-A-Joe and relaxed.

Thanks again to Ray for confiscating all mine and Arielle's photos. Several of our photos we hadn't seen until we got the album. I actually forgot I took this one while we were hanging out drinking coffee.

Cousins Christmas Eve: part 2

At around 10 or 11pm the presents came out and the carnage began. It was a great time with a lot of love all around.

Cousins Christmas Eve: part 1

Arielle and I spent Christmas Eve with the cousins at Shane and April's house. It was much different than how I spent Christmas last year.
Several bottle of wine were cracked up and a good time was had all around.