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London 2012 Summer Olympics Photos

Here are 172 photos from our trip to the London 2012 Summer Olympics. We see the Olympic sights, witness 7 very different sports, party with the Gold Medal-winning USA Women’s Water Polo team and visit the Harry Potter Studio Tour. Some highlights below:

Melissa Seidemann and Bekki Tori, Alan, Jessie and Bekki in the Olympic Stadium

Melissa Seidemann's gold medal Tori, Bekki and Jessie outside the Water Polo Arena in Olympic Park Jennifer Suhr clears 4.55 meters on her first attempt at the London 2012 Olympics

Thailand's Pen-Ek Karaket kicks Egypt's Tamer Bayoumi (1) Norway celebrates a comeback 21-19 quarterfinal win over Brazil in Women's Handball (2)

USA's goalie Betsey Armstrong Lauren Wenger, Betsey Armstrong and Kelly Rulon celebrate gold

Russian Shot Putter Evgeniia Kolodko Celebrates 2 Italy vs. Brazil in Men's Volleyball (2) American Michael Tinsley celebrates his silver medal in the Men's 400m Hurdles 2

Tori and Jessie in front of the Olympic Stadium (2) Hungary's Women's Water Polo team

USA's Maggie Steffens, Elsie Windes, Jessica Steffens and Melissa Seidemann (1) Croatia's goalie Josip Pavic celebrates gold

2012 London Olympics Photo Teaser

Oh, hey there. Fancy seeing you around. It’s been a while.

I’ll be posting photos from our 2012 London Olympics trip (sans kids!) in the next few days, but I figured I’d throw up this panorama of the Olympic Stadium from row 9 in the meantime.

2012 Olympic Stadium Panorama from Row 9

[ Medium size here (4078 x 900) ] [ Big size here (7394 x 1632) ]

Photos: Wisconsin 2012

109 photos from our trip to Wisconsin have been posted under the Vacations album. Included are copius amounts of family, a visit to the Mall of America, Lake Superior, Madeline Island, fun on a dock, up a tree and on multiple beaches, two campfires complete with marshmallow roasting, and other assorted shenanigans. Highlights:

And here’s the quickie end of the night partial family shot:

Photos: Disneyland, San Diego and Sprinklers

May brought a trip to California packed with Disneyland and a detour to San Diego, then back home to sprinkler fun with Kate. 41 photos are up for your viewing pleasure.

Highlights below include: Andrew doing his exercises, pool and waterslide fun, the Honey Badger Cares shirt, and watermelon in the sun.

Photos: Easter 2012

Springtime was in full swing as Easter came around, featuring not one but two egg hunts, playing at the park and basket mayhem. 51 pieces of photographic evidence are provided here.

Photos: Bikes in the Park

15 new photos of the boys are up, go check them out.

Alaska Photos, Part 4 of 4

The final set of Alaksa photos are up, from the Arctic Circle add-on tour with Norm, Phyllis and Alan. (Yes, we ditched everyone else.) 162 photos are up in their own album, including Barrow, the Arctic Ocean, Deadhorse, the Dalton Highway, a wild bear, a moose and the best road sign ever created.

Here’s a good map of the Dalton Highway for reference.

Summer Photo Deluge

So apparently I haven’t posted any non-Alaska photos from July onwards, so here are 109 photos from this summer. A quick recap…

We hit Remlinger Farms a couple times and picked blueberries (home and away):

We played in the pirate ship, pool and bounce house in our backyard:

We got new bikes and went swimming:

We had an early birthday party in California:

And we saw our family:

Alaska Photos, Part 3 of 4

51 new photos from our glacier landing in Denali have been posted, starting on page 7.

New Lights!

After going back and forth for a very long time about upgrading to studio strobes, I finally pulled the trigger. I got:

Naturally I had to break them in, so I took a few self portraits and uploaded them to my semi-dormant Flickr account. Here are 2/3rds of them: me jumping around and a boring head shot.

New Strobes - Jumping New Strobes - Head Shot

(And, yes, I did in fact change out of my typical t-shirt into something slightly more respectable for these. 😉 )