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Just a few minutes before Survivor...thought I'd throw these up...

Silly Team

One of my favorite things about doing sports photos is doing a silly shot. Some teams don't really understand the concept and kind of give me a blank stare, and some teams cross their eyes and stick out their tongues. This team I had the other day had me crackin up.

Keep Smiling!!

Avery cracks me up. She'll keep smiling for the photo even when she's breaking her brother's neck. And Alec has so much anger, like a fat lady on a hover-round at the grocery store spotting the coupon beans on the upper shelf.

Anyway, I'd better watch what I post or I'll get flagged for youth violence as well as crude humor.

What's in a name

From what I understand, some folks from Juneau may be tuning in to this blog this week (maybe, and they’ll probably fall asleep reading this and end up ripping their modems out so they can say “sorry, just couldn’t get a good connection” and not have to check back) and anyway, they don’t know that the Angie who posts comments is NOT my sister from Arizona, it’s our friends from church (well they don’t live at church and actually the church is the people not a building so how could they anyway…what am I talking about). Some of the comments you may or may not dare to read may or may not make more sense if you know that distinction.
And now for something completely different and horribly inappropriate for a family blog like this and yet I really feel like I have no choice but to show the following…

Adam and I were talking about color. Well, I was anyway, and how black and white photography is a little too easy and color is actually more difficult because people deal with expectations of what they think reality should look like in a photograph. With black and white images, you already have a deal with the viewer where they understand and agree to throw the notion of reality out the window a bit since we live in a world of color and therefore any black and white image is going to be an artistic escape from reality. With color images, if you want to adjust color for artistic reasons, people frown and wonder if something went wrong. Also you can have an image that is incredibly well composed, well planned and well exposed but color can kill or make the image. Black and white images (to me) are, well, easier than color. That doesn’t make them less cool but they don’t wow me as much as an amazing color image.



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Happy Easter!!

Younger times...

At my folks we got some of the old photos out and tried to find some good Easter stuff. Well, we found some funny stuff and some this and that but it was kinda late so we just picked out a couple for fun from when me and my sister Angie were in Alaska as kids fishing and when we were horseback riding somewhere, and our family by the Mendenhall glacier.

Big weekend plans...whoops sick instead

We were going to go to Little Rock to see the Burton family but Erin got sick. Then I got sick. So we sent our kids to boarding school at my folks and that's that. Wahhh.

Full Moon

You know, I've read somewhere that there are more crimes committed on full moon nights than on other nights. Also, there are more brawls and animal attacks. I don't know if it's true but I'm not going drinking with any bears tonight I'll tell you that!

Heather and Chris

Fancy bumpin into...

You'll never guess who I bumped into yesterday. Dick came to town and of course wanted to hang out with me for awhile. I was pretty busy but I decided I'd make time somehow. I don't know what you people think of the man or where you stand politically, but I was pretty impressed with his concern for our countries safety. It was nice getting to hear a speech that wasn't already edited by NBC or anything or followed up with a bunch or grumpy reporter questions. When you get right down to it, these guys have done a lot of good, even though all we hear about is the mess-ups and the levies and the war and other negative junk that sells papers. I think Mr. Cheney may not have too many opportunites to get a word out that isn't first filtered and twisted somehow. So I suppose you could say, I think a lot of people just really don't KNOW Dick.

Spring

Ahh Spring, the birds are eating bugs and other gross stuff, the bunnies are....doing their thing, the leaves I never got around to raking last year are decomposing on their own, the taxes....ah man, I'd better get on that!!

Last weekend...

By the way, if you haven't checked out some of Craig’s shots from the skate party, you really should, they're really fun. And while I'm plugging other photographers, you ought to see how Mr. Adam Cole is doing with his emerging photo talent at his photoblog, and I'd be a big stink if I didn't also mention my buddy Preston. Marc was the official photog at the Horn/Van Zant wedding that we went to this weekend. It was nice getting to actually dance at a wedding and I don't think I hurt Erin's feet too bad. That's the groom Jeremy playing guitar in the Led Zeppllin shirt. And that's his dad playing guitar while he and his new bride Abby dance, congrats to both of them!

For Nate

This is for my buddy Nate who hasn't seen his family in awhile...

Lindsey

Also this weekend, I had a great shoot with Ms Lindsey who is extremely photogenic even though she doesn't think so. We got some really incredible shots even though the sun wasn't where I'd prefer it to be. Sometimes I wonder if God is even getting my memos at all.

Gymastics

Well, let me tell you about my daughter, Avery “Lou-Rettin” Amundson. She had her first gymnastics meet Saturday and she did….well….she was definitely….we’re very proud!

There were a ton of kids and Alec was really excited to see his big sis do her wild triple double axel-f into a double iron cross platform shoe move.
Actually she pretty much stunk it up like a Taco Bell bathroom but it was really great to see how far she’s come since September. She got a medal and a snow cone but then Alec gave her a proud hug and it was one of those gimme a tissue quick moments that I don’t talk about because I’m a tough macho dude who had his emotions surgically removed years ago.
There’s more to Saturday but I’ll have to get back to it, I’m leading singing tonight at church and I should probably have something in mind besides that Nelly Grillz song.
Oh yeah, then Alec lifted a minivan on his shoulders. He needs to lay off the roids I guess.

Spring

It’s Spring and I’m lovin’ it. Alec and I did some scouting. Busy weekend. You’ll see…

Father Son Day

Nuff said

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Lots of leaves

We raked all day Saturday and got the backyard almost completely leaf free. It was 20 something bags full. I had already done 10 bags in the front but you can’t tell. But we did find some interesting stuff including a family of baby bunnies that are so cute that you can’t stand it and want to pretend that there’s no way they could have a disease and try and give em a big wet kiss. We also found some wooden people who apparently were squashed by a rock while gardening and then somehow were quasi-petrified into plywood.