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My blog is having problems remembering what I write, it’s making me mad. Grr. I’ll re-write (for a 4th time), but I do it under protest and in super-duper summary mode!  Trust me, the original text was sweet – I bet it would have changed some of your lives.

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I like beer.  I like ‘traveling’ to places and experiencing cultures via different beers.

If you have any beers (or just caps) that I don’t – I’d like to have them.  Sock away your unique caps and hook me up. 

1st time doing product-style photography.  Eliminating creativity, dynamic lighting, story telling, etc is pretty hard but being able to re-shoot makes things a bit more peaceful than my normal wedding work.

This is a large chunk of my collection but not all.
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In an e-mail exchange I had recently with another photographer (Rogier van Bakel) I was passed this article…   I wanted to share it with you all.

It’s written by a wedding photographer and contains some interesting, comical, sad, and loving moments. It kind of moseys from place to place over 4 pages…  but where it meanders is touching and thought provoking (at least for a wedding photographer like me, or anyone intersested in the business…).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/29/AR2007082902031.html

I really hooked because he starts by talking about the gripping fear of your cell phone going off — I’m so terrified of my cell going off, I don’t even bring it in the building with me when I’m photographing a wedding… so I could relate.    Here’s a couple quick snippets of the article:

“On average these days, one and a half guests will receive a phone call during a wedding, often smack during the vows, the inevitable tinny strains of Beethoven’s Ninth emanating, just as I’m sure Beethoven himself would have wanted, from the circuit board of a Motorola RAZR.”

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“…I received an e-mail from a photographer looking for an internship. His short note almost brought me to tears: “I come from Sarajevo, Bosnia, and my life has put me though many challenges. I am saying this because I have had the chance to see the worst in humans and was lucky enough to survive it. Since then, I have made it my goal to help people record their happiest moments, because those moments are rare and precious, and one never has too many of them.” “

That’s all…  no real point other than wanting to share a good article with you all..

Coming from a computer science background, “Hello World” seemed about the only appropriate message for my first blog post.

I hope to make this a photo blog, with shots from weddings I’ve done, places I’ve traveled, or anything else that strikes my fancy.  I likely won’t update but once or twice a week – we’ll see..