Beard

Sans Beard

*Only three people have ever cut my hair that I can recall. My Grandfather (once), My Father (until I was 16), and Myself.

This year has been filled with many events and responsibilities – Full-time employment, school, graduation, trip to Hawaii, marriage, moving – all of these are great; and all of these have helped contribute to a backlog of several thousand, unsorted, unedited, unblogged photographs. Over the last month I have removed the un’s from the aforementioned photographs, resulting in over one hundred that I’d like to show to you. These photographs are of my trip to Hawaii, my marriage, honeymoon, and various other things that I have seen during the last 6 months.

Starting with this post, I am going to begin posting several photographs every day; making up for all the posts I should have made earlier this year.

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Now, enough of the shameless advertising. Here’s one more photograph…

This is my friend Joe Derse, and his mother; he graduated this May.

The other day, my friends Paul Rohde and Peter Boysen decided to have an impromptu photo shoot to play with some of Paul’s new lighting gear. My girlfriend Alyson put up with us taking photographs and took a few herself.

Here are the results:

PLUS

One guy named Brady…

EQUALS

Cute couple and “That Guy”

I didn’t have any new content to post today…but since it has been a week, I decided to dust off a few old pictures of mine that probably haven’t been seen before.

The color of the day suggests that is might not be that cold, but there was a brisk wind blowing. My trigger finger became stiff very quickly.

There was some pretty thick hoar frost this morning. Sadly there was no sun and everything was frightfully overcast. But with a little bit of playing on the camera and in Lightroom, I came out with some decent images.

Something tells me that this is going to be one heck of a waffle maker…

Anyway, Christmas was chill. Just my family sitting around at home eating and playing games and such. Wasn’t the most exciting thing ever, but it was’t bad. So no complaints here.

That being said… there wasn’t a whole lot of photographic awesomeness. So here’s what I have from Christmas.

Here are a few others from the last couple of days.

I will be traveling with my family to Buhl, MN for New Years, so I should have some pictures from that. Also, I’m sure I’ll have occasion to post sometime this week. Until then, Merry Christmas.

Things picked up a little, cause we had free food for lunch at work. Then I went to my other job on campus, and sat in my studio for a little while. My fellow coworker and I started to move some stuff around in the studio, cause it has been a mess since we inherited it, and is desperately in need of cleaning.

At 13:00 I went to take pictures at a candle light vigil that was being held for Jared Stene, the president of the WSU student senate, who died Thursday night due to a sudden kidney & liver failure. Let’s just say that it was awkward. Events like these are what remind me why I am not going to be a photojournalist. I don’t have a problem taking pictures in awkward or intense situations, but I want to have a personal connection to the situation, and not just be a vulture. So that event kinda added to the blah feeling.

At 15:00 I went to my news writing class, and then remembered that it was an optional class day. There wasn’t anyone there but my professor, so I ended up talking to her for the duration of the class period, which was a nice break.

By 16:30 I was feeling really tired and slightly despondent… And I wasn’t sure why. So I decided to hang out with my friend Peter Boysen. I spent the rest of the evening chilling with him, talking and doing some random stuff. That brought me out of my funk, which was cool.

I then went home sometime after 22:00, and visited with my grandparents who have come to visit for my younger siblings birthdays. And then I tried to go to sleep a little after 23:00.

And I kept trying… but kept becoming more and more awake… (I think this may have been partially due to my brother’s chainsaw snoring). Finally at 01:00 I was wider awake than I had been all day (or all yesterday I guess), so I got up. I had left all of my stuff (computer, camer bag, etc..) at work, and the only thing I had brought home was my 20D. So I sat and took pictures in low light till I was tired again.

Man… It was a long day.

In the process of moving my pictures from my laptop to my new external, and also moving pictures from my backup external to my new one, I discovered some pictures that I had taken a while ago in need of ‘dusting’. So here they be.