Safe Travels

These are images of the sky on my way home this evening. Enjoy.

Which Way Did He Go George?

Don't you wish that real life came with big yellow directional arrows? :-) Happy Monday!

Leap Day is ______ (fill in the blank)

Being Leap day I had to write/post something. You only get this chance once every four years. :-) Today was a very warm day. We have had near record high temps through out the winter it seems which I am not complaining about. As I am thinking about this it seems to me that the chances of us having broke the record for today is much greater because they can only record this day every four years. That is kind of a cool thought. I have included a couple images to illustrate two highlights of my day. First, a self portrait in the chrome of my bike as I was able to ride and enjoy this near 70° weather today :-) Second, my beloved grill, so we ate well. A special thank you to my wife for going to the store to get the beer brats. I love you Heidi!

Thank You for Reading.

Phlog Phone Phun

Just a few images taken with my mobile phone that I enjoy.

Feel Good Day

Today I had the opportunity to feel like a dad is supposed to. I got to work with my two boys (Jacob & Liam), helping them build something of their own.
I can't fully express how good it felt to be able to share knowledge that was shared with me at this young age. These are lessons that they can use no matter where life takes them, and I hope they do.
My childhood was full of learning moments like these. I have to admit that I am saddened sometimes that I haven't recreated that for them, but, I am not sure I really want to. I don't want the things I learned growing up to be so foreign to them that they have  zero understanding of them and/or think of them as invalid. But, I also learned a lot of those things out of necessity, and those specific necessities are something that I want to avoid for my family.
Going back to the beginning of this post; I stated that "Today I had the opportunity to feel like a dad is supposed to." I say this because so often I dont feel like that. I come home from my job, I see my kids for a couple hours before they need to be in bed. During that time we have dinner, finish homework if needed, read some stories, and get ready for bed. Hardly enough time to leave my mark on their lives. Weekends are better because of the extended time we can share as a family, but I must admit, often I am spent by the time the weekend gets to us and a lot of that weekend can be used by me as a reset button for the next week.
The boys' projects this weekend helped me to see how important this time is for them, and that is all the reset I need. I look forward to many more projects in the garage:-)
Thanks for reading.

Wow What a Year

I know, I have been terrible with this blog. But, in my defense, this has been one crazy year. My family moved to a place with a larger yard for our kiddos, and they now have room to be kids. My position at Amazon has changed a couple times. I am now a manager at my studio and therefore no longer doing any imaging at work myself. I gues that means i should change the ad on the right to say "something my studio imaged this week" or something like that.:-) I remain confident that even though I no longer use a camera every day that there is a place in this world for images that i have created or brought to light. I will continue posting images that are taken with my camera on my phone as this is a very practical way to share my world with others.

I feel the hardest part of continuing this blog is now complete with a new start. Thank you for reading.

New Idea, or Been Done Before?

So I was thinking about this blog and what I would like to do with it. Particularly, how can I incorporate video in a relevant fashion. This train of thought started at the realization that video is the future of product photography, and therefore I need to gain experience in this medium in order to remain relevant in my field. As it is with still photography, the best way to learn to image something with video is to play and have fun with it. My problem was that I love still photography and haven't wanted to jump off and start making complicated videos. My photography is generally simple and clean, relying on composition & color to provide interest. In my mind this didn't translate well into video. I like composing my work to rely on these basic elements, which lead me to ask myself; What is a basic element video offers that stills don't? The answer is of course; movement. So now I have this awesome idea in my head about how I can have very short videos that have the look and feel of a still photograph, but with a single element of movement. The first subject idea I had was a close up of a vintage doorknob (something I could see myself shooting anyway). The frame is completely still for 2 or 3 seconds, and then the knob starts turning. That is it, nothing else. What do you think?

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A little bit of me.

If you read this blog with any regularity you will see technology come up fairly often.  As a tech geek I am a huge fan of Google. I have been using their search engine since it showed up in an Alta Vista search :). I have their mobile OS on my phone, and I use their products more and more all the time, the latest of which is this blog site. As long as they continue producing open source products that meet the wants and needs of consumers I don't see this changing.  Another big name you will hear from me often is Amazon.com. Not only is this the greatest success story to come out of the dot com boom, but is the greatest company I have ever worked for. I apologize ahead of time for the occasions were there will be an ad for amazon listed on this site, but since I am a photographer for them and I was going to post links to anything cool I shot anyway, why not make a % if you choose to purchase the item?
Anyway, that is a little about me.
Please let me know if you experience any issues with my site :-)

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Goodnight

Tonight I am going to leave you with just this photogragh and a goodnight as it has been a long day and tomorrow is just as busy. Goodnight all, and thanks for looking.
PS: I noticed in my settings that not everyone was able to post comments in the past. This has been corrected.

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1.5" of Ice Continued

So... I got called home from work early today (not the easiest thing to do) because we had water dripping from our bedroom light fiixture. From my poking around in the attic, it loooks as though the ice on the roof is melting, and that water is being forced through the roof and traveling down the rafters to the ceiling. Not exactly sure what to do as we can't really do anything about the ice :) Any ideas?

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1.5"of Ice

So after two days falling chunks I can look forward to somehow removing the ice from vehicles, driveway, sidewalk.
UPDATE: This pic shows the thickness of the ice on my car this morning

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Late Bloomer

So, both my Mother and my Father have blogs. I am 28 years old, how is it that I am just now jumping on this bandwagon? I mean, I love technology and social media, and yet I hadn't until now taken the opportunity that blogging sets before me. That is, the ability to say what I want to say, and in my case show what I want to show any time and any where I like. Honestly I think the ability I have to blog from my phone is what really did it for me. I stare at a computer all day so I don't really want to when I leave work. But my phone allows me to post in short segments no matter where I am. (I promise not to inform you of "porcelain posts", no one needs to be stuck with that pic in their head). Well goodnight, I have an early day at work tomorrow.

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First Phlog

This is primarily a test of the Blogger-droid app. The plan is to blog about everyday things using my cell phone as the primary entry device. Welcome!

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