Cornhusker State Games

I just wrapped up shooting stock at the cornhusker state games for a week and a half. It was a fun time, sunburn and tan lines excluded. shooting stock photos for parents is different than shooting news photos, i.e. not nearly as creatively enjoyable. but, you can still come away with some decent images. shooting little kids playing with swords rocked. hardcore. plus, little kids make fantastic faces.

happy birthday

Happy belated blog birthday, Megan.

The zoo!

Last weekend, i went with my mother to the zoo up in omaha. this is the third year in a row that i have taken her, and i always enjoy a good zoo. i only took my wide angle with me this year, but i had wished i had taken my 70-200. still, i saw monkeys, and tigers, and sharks, and all other forms of fauna. hooray!

with its' kooky lights

happy 4th of july to all. i had a long day, starting with going to fairbury to go to the annual flea market with my grandpa and mother. on the way back to lincoln, i took several backroads, and found a nice mail box with some flags. the rest are some of the fireworks seen from my house.

the blobaum picnic

two updates in one day! WOW! (i've been kinda lazy with updating) i went home this weekend for the annual Blobaum picnic, a large blobaum reunion will with beer and explosives. i've never really been that happy with fireworks photos that i have taken, but, i didn't have a tripod. i know, i know, excuses. well, i was there to have fun, not to impress you. so there.

Another wedding

for a slight change of pace, i was a groomsman in a wedding a handful of weeks back. congrats to trevor and ginny gill. Trevor was my best friend in high school, and is one of the few people i keep in touch with from fairbury.

some more

so, after someone asked me to post some more wedding photos, i have decided to post some more. hooray!

We got married in a fever

Shot a wedding yesterday. great access, great light, i was in a great mood. hooray!

cause we all need more turtles in our lives

Hooray turtles!

Happy Mother's Day

Grandma on left, Mom on right. I love 'em both.

maps!

Ok, so here is the (not quite) completed room o' maps. i found out that i need a lot more maps to cover the rest of the room, but this is a decent start. i might get around to changing the map that is behind my desk on a rotation sort of thing, just to keep it interesting when i get distracted.

Lincoln Marathon

I spent early sunday morning shooting the Lincoln Marathon. It was really early, really wet, but also really fun. The man who won was the first Lincoln resident to win the marathon, despite it being the first marathon he had ever ran.

something new

So, now that i am moved into the new place (sorta) i decided i wanted to do something different to decorate my room. Since i am a AAA member (not to be confused with AA) i get all the free maps i could want. So, i went down to the AAA offices, told them i wanted a map of every state, and they gave them to me. The plan was to cover every inch of my wall space with all 50 states of the US. I did not realize untill i got home that most of the maps had 2 states on them, with each state on a separate side. i got 2 walls covered with the 27 maps, and now i need to go back and get some other maps to fill in the rest of the room. The panoramic of the room i am trying to post is not wanting to post, so when i have more time i will get that up there. here are some shots before and during the process.

happy birthday

happy birthday to my grandpa, who turned 83 yesterday. we had burgers, cake, and lots of iced tea. hooray!

One of my favorite poems

Not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose,
he was a young man riding a bus through North Carolina on the way to somewhere.
And it began to snow.

And the bus stopped at a little cafe in the hills and the passengers entered.
And he sat at the counter with the others, and he ordered, the food arrived.
And the meal was particularly good.
And the coffee.

The waitress was unlike the women he had known.
She was unaffected, and there was a natural humor which came from her.
And the fry cook said crazy things.
And the dishwasher in back laughed a good clean pleasant laugh.

And the young man watched the snow through the window.
And he wanted to stay in that cafe forever.
The curious feeling swam through him that everything was beautiful there.
And it would always stay beautiful there.

And then the bus driver told the passengers that it was time to board.
And the young man thought: "I'll just stay here, I'll just stay here."
And then he rose and he followed the others into the bus.
He found his seat and looked at the cafe through the window.
And then the bus moved off, down a curve, downward, out of the hills.

And the young man looked straight forward.
And he heard the other passengers speaking of other things,
or they were reading or trying to sleep.
And they hadn't noticed the magic.
And the young man put his head to one side,
closed his eyes, and pretended to sleep.

There was nothing else to do,
just to listen to the sound of the engine,
and the sound of the tires
in the snow.


Charles Bukowski - Nirvana

the shaving