Sunday night I had the privilege of spending the evening with a super fun couple! Josh and Jenny June!  Too bad it already gets so dark so early around these parts, and then add in the clouds, and we weren’t able to get any shots in before it got dark! But we headed over to the hotel where Josh and Jen are having their reception, the Holiday Inn of Fargo, and we had a lot of fun! It’ll take me a few more days at least to get them all completely finished up, but here is a quick preview of what’s to come!

Here is my first senior portrait shoot! I am quite happy with how these turned out, and Kaleb had a lot of fun too! Look within the next few weeks for part 2 of his shoot! It was really funny, when I asked Kaleb if he minded if I put these up on the blog, he said, “No, go ahead! Then I get to see more of my mug!” haha! 

First of all, just wanted to apologize for the lack of updating lately! I’ve been extremely busy lately without a lot of extra time for shooting! Add to that the fact that it gets dark at 7 here now, my prime hours are dark already! Oh, the joys of winter! 

In any case, I have a fun post today! I was at my grandparents’ anniversary party this past weekend, and their great-granddaughter Ondrea was visiting too! (She is my uncle’s granddaughter, I have no idea what that makes her to me...) She was being quite funny and having fun playing on the floor. Here she is playing with her puzzle.

She got bored about halfway through, however, put the puzzle back in the box, and left to go play in another room. Of course, me being the type of guy that loves to play with children’s heads, I suggested we put together the puzzle and leave it in the middle of the floor to discover. It took us about 3 minutes to put the 48-piece jumbo sized puzzle together and left it for her to find! Here she is discovering it!

Her excitement quickly turned to being confused as to how such a thing could have happened.  I couldn’t get a picture of her super cute “suspicious” look she gave me because I was sure that would have given me away.

When we asked her how she thought this might have happened, she finally decided that the puzzle “put itself together.” We had a good laugh!  And don’t worry, she wasn’t scarred for life. In fact, 10 minutes later, she’d forgotten all about it. I love kids.

I spent the week with my family in Minot, ND. Since the last time I visited, my parents got a cat! His name is Tigger! While I wouldn’t say I am a cat person, this is one cool cat! He is extremely soft, extremely people friendly, and crazy! I took a few pictures of him! I hope you enjoy!

Tigger knows how to open cabinet doors, and sleeps in the cabinet when my dad works at his desk.

Tigger peeking out of his home!

OK, a few weeks back someone had let me know that the “captcha” or the security verification for commenting wasn’t working, meaning that nobody could comment on my blog. I definitely want people to be able to comment, so I removed the captcha security. Imagine my shock when I found that over the last week, I had received almost 1000 spam comments on 20 different posts!!! After spending over a half an hour cleaning the comment boxes out, I re-enabled captcha, although I noticed it still isn’t working. I guess I’ll have to get together with my host to see why this is no longer working, but I can’t just leave things wide open any more, apparently. I want people to be able to comment, but this is ridiculous.

And although I know those idiots spamming my site aren’t even visiting, see above picture! Yeah, that’s right. Does anyone really click on your link and buy fake medicine from somewhere in Asia? Is it really worth your time? In any case, rant over! I hope those people that actually enjoy visiting my site keep visiting, and I hope to get the commenting fixed soon!

I’m not sure how this happens, but it seems on every shoot, I completely forget about a picture. Then a few weeks later, I’m going through and cleaning house and find it! Here is a shot of my friend David and his 1960s Chevy Camaro. I guess you can tell I’m not very good with classic cars, because I don’t know exactly which year it is. Ah well, it’s still a great car.

So I’ve been really busy in the middle of moving to a new apartment! Which, of course, means that I haven’t had time for a lot of pictures. So today I’ll leave you with one of the funniest videos I’ve seen this year. It’s completely nerdy, but also extremely entertaining and clever. I hope you enjoy it!!!

It’s called “The Font Convention”

Back in May, Steve Vickerman, the owner of a small business called Name Rings, got in touch with me about updating his web site. His old site was outdated and had not been properly brought up to date with new security standards. So I designed his brand new logo and brand new site for him, got new cart software installed on a new server, updated his security, and helped him get the whole site running! We went live with it last month, and finally have gotten all the kinks worked out! I really like how it turned out, I think it is clean, simple, and functional.  We have plans for the future to add pictures with models and flash work, and I’m looking forward to see how things go for him! Check it out!

Just 1 quick picture today. I went to a picnic on Saturday, and a bunch of friends started a baseball game.  The skies were so dramatic, I just had to capture a shot of the game underneath the incredible sky!

You may have read my post a few weeks back where I decided to definitely go from the ranks of doing just freelance jobs to going for being a professional photographer! I have been continuing to make steps towards developing a brand for myself, and a “store front,” as you will.  I am not all that interested in being a studio photographer, and so my store front right now is the web! To that end, I have just designed a brand new logo and launched a new commercial site for myself!

I am still not quite done developing all the sections of the new site, and am nowhere near finishing the galleries, but I decided to go live with it already because it is already much better than what I had up! If you’d like, Check it out!