Holy Cow I've been busy. Not necessarily in a good way, but busy nonetheless. As you can see I have been playing with the bees. I had the chance to really get up close and personal with the bees this week. I even had the chance to try to shoot an HDR of a bee. How often do you get to do that?!? Well, I kinda suck at it, but it wasn't a total loss. It was fun.
So again I have bombarded my watcher's pages with a crapload of photos. I'm sorry, and I know you will all forgive me. Either that or you'll stop paying attention to anything I do. Whatever.
It has been a good week. It has been a good month. It has been a bad year, but it is not over yet.
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So I said all that
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So, I said all that and then started having computer problems. All issues have been resolved, but now as it is 1:24am, I will have to post stuff in the morning. Gotta love it.
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I totally fell off the face of the earth and landed in deep turmoil and abrupt changes. Life has a way of overwhelming you and swirling you around and around and around until you finally hear that sucking sound in the bowl just before the tank starts refilling.
But the tank does refill.
The God I serve has a strange way of getting my attention sometimes. Don't worry, not like I had an intervention or anything. It's just that life changed so fast that I thought I was going to drown. But as is so common in the way God does things, I sank to what I thought was the bottom so I could push off of that hard surface and shoot right back up to the surface. Hmm, maybe that was a little too deep and metaphorical. Let's get to the facts.
Reader's digest version, all of our time is short.
Friends, I got remarried after a heartbreaking divorce, most already know this. I went through a stressful time with all of that, and started getting depressed. Then I met Alison, my now wife. She is wonderful. We went through hell in our own ways, but have always stayed close to being on the same page. I changed jobs. I now work for a super awesome company. I got a new home, and had another kid. I know, I know, we are crazy! Johnathan makes 4 kids in the house now...
And than after all this, Alison tells me that I must replace the camera that was broken and lost with one that I want because the replacement I had purchased just didn't work our for me after all. I mean it works, but my drive to use it simply disappeared. I spent so much time in post that I really didn't care to shoot too much art. And the art I did shoot made me sad because I was locked into jpeg, or a fake version or RAW.
The bottom line is she is awesome and made me do it.
Yeah, made me...
So it turns out I feed a lot of self esteem, knowledge, and entertainment from this community, as well as Flikr, Facebook, etc. So I am proud to announce that I am back, 60D in hand with my two good lenses.
I really want you to tell me how I am doing and give me advice. Besides being great in my day job, my parenting skills, my personal life, my romantic life, and many other ways, I want this hobby to be great too. and I want to keep having fun with it and blessing others with my art and skills.
So, here we go.
But the tank does refill.
The God I serve has a strange way of getting my attention sometimes. Don't worry, not like I had an intervention or anything. It's just that life changed so fast that I thought I was going to drown. But as is so common in the way God does things, I sank to what I thought was the bottom so I could push off of that hard surface and shoot right back up to the surface. Hmm, maybe that was a little too deep and metaphorical. Let's get to the facts.
Reader's digest version, all of our time is short.
Friends, I got remarried after a heartbreaking divorce, most already know this. I went through a stressful time with all of that, and started getting depressed. Then I met Alison, my now wife. She is wonderful. We went through hell in our own ways, but have always stayed close to being on the same page. I changed jobs. I now work for a super awesome company. I got a new home, and had another kid. I know, I know, we are crazy! Johnathan makes 4 kids in the house now...
And than after all this, Alison tells me that I must replace the camera that was broken and lost with one that I want because the replacement I had purchased just didn't work our for me after all. I mean it works, but my drive to use it simply disappeared. I spent so much time in post that I really didn't care to shoot too much art. And the art I did shoot made me sad because I was locked into jpeg, or a fake version or RAW.
The bottom line is she is awesome and made me do it.
Yeah, made me...So it turns out I feed a lot of self esteem, knowledge, and entertainment from this community, as well as Flikr, Facebook, etc. So I am proud to announce that I am back, 60D in hand with my two good lenses.
I really want you to tell me how I am doing and give me advice. Besides being great in my day job, my parenting skills, my personal life, my romantic life, and many other ways, I want this hobby to be great too. and I want to keep having fun with it and blessing others with my art and skills.
So, here we go.
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Holy Cow
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Where does the time go?
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In addition to the events that have befallen my family in the recent months, I have realized that time itself seems to progress faster as I get older. Why this is, I am not certain. But I can only speculate that it has something to do with the amount of people I come into contact with in combination with the amount of caffeine consumed in the course of a day. Now I do not have the recipe for the perfect life, health, or even the perfect pictures. But what I do know is that my earlier goal(s) for the year are essentially shot, especially with the fact that my days are becoming seemingly shorter with age...
Perhaps I should take a moment to stop and ponder this some more; you know, consume even more of my ever shortening time. Maybe I should cut down on the caffeine, drink more water, and live healthier. But then I would probably be wide awake at the end of the day. How would I ever get to sleep at a decent hour without my caffeine crash? Plus with my current time complex, wouldn't that mean my body would eventually think of 11:00pm as 9:00am? This is quite a mental complex that seems to be going nowhere. Thanks for spending some of your ever shortening time reading this, and looking at my gallery.
Off to bed for me. I am obviously enjoying my crash.
Perhaps I should take a moment to stop and ponder this some more; you know, consume even more of my ever shortening time. Maybe I should cut down on the caffeine, drink more water, and live healthier. But then I would probably be wide awake at the end of the day. How would I ever get to sleep at a decent hour without my caffeine crash? Plus with my current time complex, wouldn't that mean my body would eventually think of 11:00pm as 9:00am? This is quite a mental complex that seems to be going nowhere. Thanks for spending some of your ever shortening time reading this, and looking at my gallery.
Off to bed for me. I am obviously enjoying my crash.
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Back to the grind
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I have been cast away, pushed aside, battered, bruised, heartbroken, and otherwise put into a state of mind that I have never been in before. But for some reason I see that I am now more determined than ever.
I am getting back concerning my personal goal of 1,000 pictures posted here by the end of the year. Given my recent few months of intensely stressful life-changing events, and my lack of time, I am way behind. If anyone wants more detail, or whatever, feel free to hit me up here or on my Myspace page. If not, which I am sure many of you don't, please enjoy some new postings.
Critique away, I have a lot to learn.
By the way, there has been some WONDERFUL work being posted to this site in recent months. I did not have time to favorite or comment on them all. I will get back to those that I really enjoyed, I promise.
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I am getting back concerning my personal goal of 1,000 pictures posted here by the end of the year. Given my recent few months of intensely stressful life-changing events, and my lack of time, I am way behind. If anyone wants more detail, or whatever, feel free to hit me up here or on my Myspace page. If not, which I am sure many of you don't, please enjoy some new postings.
Critique away, I have a lot to learn.
By the way, there has been some WONDERFUL work being posted to this site in recent months. I did not have time to favorite or comment on them all. I will get back to those that I really enjoyed, I promise.
CP
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