Birthday Girl and Jealous Brother

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Thanks Arizona

So we’re back from the beautiful state of Arizona and a great time was had by all. The kids road the train to the Grand Canyon and we saw signs of elk and then actual elk. My sister Angie was a great tour guide and hostess. Like most of our fancy vacations, this was a parent-sponsored event which we highly recommend. Sunrise and sunset at the Canyon was incredible and it was a great to be a tourist and just enjoy the time.

Chorizo and Frank Lloyd Wright

Happy Thanksgiving from Arizona! We flew out to see my sister and her husband and the kids rode down in the car with my folks. We’ve had some authentic Mexican food including chorizo that my sis made. Chorizo is a strong flavored sausage that reminds me a bit of taco bell but not exactly. I’m sure many of you people out there know all about it but I didn’t. Well, we had bacon and sausage links and chorizo and all we needed was my Uncle Roger to show up and make porketta. Angie and Erin have moved from Tucson to Phoenix so we hung out and went to see the Frank Lloyd Wright place, Taliesin West. Pretty cool place. It was originally just a winter rough-it kind of place with no windows intended but eventually they added glass. Lots of weird lines and odd shaped entries and hallways. Really cool use of concrete everywhere. Origami shaped chairs and some cool sculptures. It’s built over an underground river so they have lots of water for stuff there too. Erin wasn’t feeling well when we first got here but she’s doing good now. The kids just want to climb the tree in the back which is just about the perfect little tree for kids to climb. Well, I need to get busy relaxing and eating some more and watching football. I’m thankful for my family and for my friends out there who happen to read this. Happy Thanksgiving!

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!