My blog has mutated

They say it's a good thing. Natural evolution (which is probably an oxymoron) has caused my old blog to be old and slow and I don’t know what. So I’ve had to “upgrade” my blog. I don’t think it’s supposed to look different or act different but I can tell you, it smells different.
This shot is of my green car hood.

Smudge

So I’ve been a little busy. That’s a good thing, I’d much rather be busy than bored. Although I can’t remember the last time I was ever bored. Maybe when I was stuck in the Salt Lake City Airport for nine hours when I was in eighth grade, but that was pretty fun too…they have these amazing chocolate milkshakes down on concourse A.
Anyway, so I had fun shooting the Shaws the Brices the Replogles, David’s Bridal, several basketball teams and I’m probably forgetting something else…oh yeah Kadi and Rickey. (See my print galleries).
I emailed my best friend from high school which was kind of hard since we haven’t really kept in touch so I’m a little embarrassed and everything. But I was thinking about old friends that you sort of loose contact with and then when you think about them, it’s like they’re dead or something. Which is stupid because they’re not it’s just that that’s a part of your life that you can’t really go back to so it’s too painful to think about. Well, I think that’s a load and I don’t like it. So, I’m going to try and make contact with all my old “dead” friends. Before they’re really dead anyway. And I dare you guys out there to do the same. I think I’ll even try and get a hold of old Chris Holmes…I think he’s in Chattanooga or something. I’ll tell you about him later….I don’t know how much time has to pass between committing a crime and being able to talk about it on a blog but I don’t want to get him in trouble.
OK, so there it is.
When I was setting up for the Shaws shoot I thought I had a spot on my sensor because of this black blob on the image:


Well I was freaking out and everything trying to get it removed and later I found out it was grease on my face. Isn’t that sad that the most obvious thing is the last thing I think of sometimes.

I'm having trouble putting the other pictures on this blog so I'll have to split it up...

Anna and Danny

This is Anna and Danny. They’ve been waiting a while to see their engagement pictures….thanks for waiting. Click here to see the rest!

Recycled

"Warm Spot"; "Coolant Nebula"; "Angry But Dependable"; "Flowers"; "Rusting Tree"

I love it when they all smile

You know it always seems like there’s always too much to do. I used to know this guy who made his living interpreting dreams and saying wise vague stuff like “live in chaos, live in chaos” which meant something like if you don’t clean your messy house, your life will be a chaotic uncontrolled mess. He also would say “garbage in garbage out” whenever he saw someone eating a Big Mac and fries which he really meant that they wouldn’t feel good no matter what if they ate that kind of junk. So lately, I’ve noticed, everything is a little scattered and chaotic. Lately?!? Who am I kidding, since we’ve moved over here almost a year ago we’ve had partially finished projects and renovations in the works everywhere. Well now the studio is a total mess as well and I mean to set right to work and get the chaos under control. And eat a Big Mac.

And another point is, the things you own, own you. I just bought a bunch of good stuff from another studio and now I have to rethink just about everything so I can figure out what to do with everything. So if you have a clean house (like the wonderful happy people shown in this picture do) you have something to smile about. If you don’t, well, go visit someone who does, it cheers me up!

November

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while, been busy and out of town. And of course we had a little thing we like to call Halloween. I went to the PP of O (photographer convention) in Eureka Springs. It was really pretty but I was inside during most of the daylight hours so I didn’t get many shots at all. But I did see Mike Clemens who was visiting my folks and I got to swing by the mini version of the Golden Gate Bridge that was in that movie “Elizabethtown”. Anyway, I’ll post more soon!

Elicia Likes To Sing

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Brice Belly Bug

We had a rough night the other night, we all got the"Brice" stomach bug. Without going into too many fun details, some of us were up all night throwing up and some of us were up all night with...well, it rhymes with "spy a tree, uh". Anyway, after 2 hours sleep I got to meet two wonderful people who are very much in love and have their wedding coming up next Spring; Abbi and Martin. We had a great time in Camdenton and the colors were just wonderful. I'll have the whole gallery up soon.

It's Fall

Once again, Mt. Vernon's Apple Butter Makin' Days was filled with color and crafts and carnival food. I had a cheesecake-on-a-stick dipped in chocolate and a deep fried apple fritter covered in cinn-sugar and we had brats and kraut and German potato salad and homemade rootbeer. We didn't win at bingo this year which has to be the first time for that but we still had fun.
Then we had the church hayride and had hotdogs and chocolate-carmel pie and hot chocolate and nachos and everything you can think of. I almost went over on my food points but luckily, most of that stuff isn't on the little sheet of paper so I get to estimate what I think. I'm thinkin I had about 15 points all together, when you include the 3 points for the oatmeal I had to start the day. Being healthy takes some serious math skills.

Halloween's A Comin'

We've got some costumes picked out...

Mom's in Japan

With all the excitement this weekend with North Korea planning on testing their nuke, Mom decided she had to get in close and work on her radiation tolerance. Also, I think she is big on saki but that's just a rumor.

Our Trees Got A Haircut

We had tons of dead branches so we had these guys come out and clean it up. The colorful shots are from last year and the green shots are from today.

Cataract Eye

I know I should have cleaned the stove top first, and polished the chili pot too. It almost tipped over for this shot.

Deer & Disco

Like the tragic end of disco, the exotic animal paradise is now closed. I'm thinking of starting a new animal paradise with stuff like wolverines and skunks and hyenas and poison dart frogs. And instead of driving through, you walk through so you really feel the excitement. And then at the center of all the amazing wildlife, I'd put our fat cat Whinnie. She puts the fat deer from the E.A.P. to shame .

Castaway/Lockdown part II

(See last post if this doesn't make sense)

How about K.B. not even wanting to take the full alloted count of books with him, wow what a tough guy. Let's hope he and his Mrs. Reading Rainbow Angie never go on a cruise or anything or they'll just have to talk to each other and we know that never goes well.

OK, great stuff. (I'm only saying "great stuff" because Erin says I say it too much and I sound like a moron and like I'm trying to be cool or something and I come across more like an even dorkier version of Mr. Rogers).
I thought about putting a photo album in my list but in my little "mental scenario" you have to buy all the books at the prison bookstore or the airport bookstore before the plane goes down so I decided against it. Otherwise, I'd custom make me a book 50,000 pages long with a cover made from raft-capable Styrofoam and I'd have another book where each page is a frozen pizza and blah blah blah. Anyway, great stuff all you who responded. (I picked all of mine without seeing what you did first, honest!) Here's my "brilliant books":

If in prison: The Bible, a book on philosophy, a book on art, a blank book, and of course this one.

If on a deserted island, substitute that last one for this one, and substitute the philosophy book for this little beauty.

Oh, and I thought about Snoop Dogg for a long time of course but I ended up with this album list:

“Dark Side of the Moon” - Pink Floyd
“Abby Road” - Beatles
“Red Headed Stranger” - Willie Nelson
“...And Justice For All” – Metallica
“Crash” – Dave Matthews Band

5 Books

I don’t know if I picked it up on a road trip or what, but somewhere along the line, I came up with a great question to ask someone to get a little insight as to how they think, and what they value. Actually you can ask it one of two ways…#1: If you were going to prison for five years and you were allowed to bring any five books with you, what would you bring? Or, #2: If you were stuck alone on a deserted island indefinitely, what five books would you want to bring? A possible follow up is what five cds (given you have a solar powered stereo) would you bring along. I’ll give you my choices if I get five people to comment with theirs first.

Fun with Construction Paper

Makes me think of pizza.

Harry

It took 6 assistants on the lighting and 2 hair stylists and the talent wouldn't wake up.

Paul Bunyon

I had to work with this giant Canadian this week. Boy those Canadians sure are clean and polite. I guess if you got to eat Canadian bacon every day and drink Canada Dry to wash it down, you might be, uh, somehow cleaner....and uh, more....that doesn't make any sense at all. And Dan Aykroyd only ate dry white toast anyway. But Keifer Sutherland probably drinks Canada Dry and he's like the Prime Minister of Canada or something, or he works for their secret security or 24 something, whatever...

Nevermind.

Just the hat

So last week was busy with the holiday and all and my folks are all excited about doing the weight watchers thing and so Erin and I thought we’d give it a whirl. Well, depending on your weight determines how many points of food you are supposed to eat in a day so I thought we should start by just not really worrying about it for the first day, and just write down what we eat and then add it up and see what a typical day is without trying. So Erin is supposed to have like 20 points or something and I’m supposed to have like 30 or something so at the end of the day we did the math and Erin had had like 40 or so and she was pretty bummed. Then I added up mine and it was…get this, 96.5. That’s like three fat dudes’ worth and then some. So we figured we’d better look at what doesn’t “cost” much in points and try it for real. I this means the only things we can get from Krispy Kreme are hats.