The Strike is dead.

I’ve finally uploaded the last of the best of my Europe photos, from my 2005 trip with Mark.

Here’s a link to the full set, the captions have descriptions of what the hell it is that you’re looking at, along with some entertaining stories of stuff we did while over in Euroland.

If, unlike me, you don’t have an abundance of free time on your hands, they’re also broken down country by country if you don’t want to look at all 400 or so of them.

As long as it took me to upload all my photos, I’d hate to see how long it takes Mark to upload his. He took about three times as many pictures as I did, though in all fairness, he’s a much better photographer.

And since I’m talking about Mark as a photographer, I think this is obligatory:

Saturday I went to the Golden Dragon parade celebrating Chinese New Year with some friends, and my pictures are up.

I’m really happy with how these came out, since this is the first time I went shooting with my giant (70-300mm) lens and did manual focus the entire time.

I will say, this is the first parade I’ve been to in a while, and I’d forgotten how incredibly repetitive parades are: Dragon, dragon, float, marching band, dragon, marching band, Kung Fu school, dragon, dragon, marching band, dragon….

A few of the highlights (click to go to each photo’s Flickr page: