Remember that night in the middle of December when the moon was like a beacon in the sky? On December 13th, the moon was closer to the earth than it had been since 1993. A year rife with angst and drama for me, I might add, as that was the year I graduated from high school and was wondering what the hell I was going to do with my life.

Well, the moon found me in a much better place this year than it did then, and I’m thankful for that. I spent the evening in San Jose at a coffee shop watching my girlfriend’s friend play guitar. I brought my camera of course, and thought I’d share some of the results with you. There was certainly a little bit of magic in the air that night…

I bumped up the blacks in this a bit to enhance the flower-shaped debris field flung out from the impact crater on the lower right.

This is Malachi Hernandez. Remember that name. He and his scarf are gonna be HUGE in 2009.