CLIX: Resolution

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Lani Kai: time for the weekly update!
Lani Kai: sigh...
Lani Kai: I resolve to take more pictures this week
Lani Kai: I will, I promise...
Lani Kai: as for my co-blogger, I'm not sure what happened to him
Lani Kai: I see an evil face in this picture

CLVIII: Weekly

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CLVII: Eek

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CLVI: Tattered Dreams

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Lani Kai: Wanted: Dead or Alive
Trypto: is that what it says?
Lani Kai: I dunno

CLV: Uninteresting

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Trypto: that kinda sucks too
Trypto: haha, just kidding
Lani Kai: yeah... it's nothing remarkable
Trypto: but the show must go on

CLIV: Labyrinth (Wait, I already used that title before...)

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Trypto: have you ever seen the movie Labyrinth?
Lani Kai: no
Trypto: observe
Lani Kai: so what's this movie about
Trypto: a little girl gets stuck in an evil dreamworld called the labyrinth, ruled by David Bowie
Trypto: and her older sister has to go in and rescue her
Trypto: it was made in 1986--that explains his hair
Trypto: actually, it's a boy who gets trapped
Trypto: but he looks like a girl
Trypto: anyhoo, your picture reminded me of the movie

CLIII: Children At Play

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Lani Kai: boucing someone's head around
Lani Kai: or chasing after it after it fell off the levitation device on the shoulders
Trypto: yeah, seriously, I saw this on a streetsign
Trypto: and was like, wtf
Lani Kai: was it near a playground or something?
Trypto: no, just in a residential street

CLII: Going Nuts

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Trypto: it's my nut
Lani Kai: there's a strand of hair or dust growing out of the top
Trypto: yeah, I like hairy nuts
Lani Kai: that's hardly hairy...

CLI: Focal Point

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Trypto: cool
Trypto: personally, I would have preferred if the nearest bird was the one in focus
Trypto: the photo's a little bit disconcerting as it is
Lani Kai: like so?
Trypto: hm, whatever you think is best
Lani Kai: I don't really like the bird's look in the one where the first one is in focus
Trypto: okie

CL: Favorite

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Trypto: mmm, breadsticks make me hungry
Lani Kai: I think this is my favorite picture from all of this month
Lani Kai: I'm not sure why
Trypto: heh, me neither
Lani Kai: I guess I kind of like the atmosphere

CXLIX: White Balance

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Lani Kai: playing around with custom white balance here...
Lani Kai: for this shot I purposely threw off the white balance by calibrating using something red
Lani Kai: apparently an ExpoDisc is supposed to free me from having to use grey cards, but I don't see how it helps if I have to carry an extra filter around
Lani Kai: and they're rather expensive too...
Lani Kai: I have an innovative solution called a white shirt
Lani Kai: just point the camera at your waist and calibrate the white balance

CXLVIII: Festive Lights

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Lani Kai: I haven't seen my co-blogger online in a while
Lani Kai: I think he's avoiding me

CXLVII: 'Tis the Season

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Lani Kai: this is a dolphin, not a cactus
Lani Kai: my co-blogger is currently getting wasted at a party...

CXLVI: Nitro

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Lani Kai: what are you taking apart?
Trypto: not me
Trypto: my roommate's building a robot
Trypto: he named it Nitro

CXLV: Sideways

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Lani Kai: I went to the D1 Grand Prix Series Finals this weekend
Lani Kai: it was rainy, windy, cold, dark near the end, and smelled of burned rubber
Lani Kai: but it was a cool experience
Lani Kai: I took 433 pictures, of which about 50 were usable
Lani Kai: I hate the stupid fence...

CXLIV: Almost

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Lani Kai: autumn colors
Lani Kai: except it's almost winter
Trypto: yes, well
Trypto: we live in California
Trypto: what do you mean almost winter?
Lani Kai: winter solstice is in a week
Trypto: oh
Trypto: how do you know that shit?

CXLIII: Unintended Consequences

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Lani Kai: this is not how I intended this shot to turn out
Lani Kai: but I actually like it...
Lani Kai: out of the 270 shots I took at this game, this is one of my favorites

CXLII: Elephants

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Trypto: it doesn't say anything about arson
Trypto: or urinating in public
Lani Kai: well, is that allowed anywhere?
Trypto: yes, I think so
Lani Kai: in California?
Trypto: fine, it doesn't say anything about elephants

CXLI: Stunning

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Lani Kai: I took like 5 pictures a while ago
Trypto: that's fine
Trypto: as long as they're utterly stunning
Trypto: like, holy shit wow that should be in National Geographic
Lani Kai: I haven't taken an utterly stunning picture in a while
Trypto: it should be so stunning I want to pee myself
Lani Kai: I also don't think National Geographic features Christmas lights
Trypto: in a few years when there's no more animals or trees left on the planet, they'll have to

CXL: Modern

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Lani Kai: this is the modern-day version of this
Lani Kai: the other one is a car from about fifty years ago
Lani Kai: sigh, I haven't taken a good picture in a loooooong time