I submit that I am not. Ok, I guess I have been, but I am fixing that. With my new job (which I love by the way), it has been difficult to maintain the amount of shooting I used to get to do. Not only do I have a new job, I have a new house, a new puppy, and I am getting married in 7 days. That is pretty time consuming. So yesterday I decided to do something about my lack of shooting. Next to me, on my desk, is my 1d mk2n with a 20-35 2.8L on it. It is a simple set up. Even though it serves no purpose at my job, I keep it there and shoot in the office. The pictures are nothing of note, but what is important is that I am being creative. I also shoot a lot of pictures with my iPhone, but I have found that having my “real” camera staring me in the face makes me want to use it more.
Dakota Danner
I got a new puppy, and her name is Dakota. She is rediculously cute. Jessi and I are so happy to have her as part of our family. I just took a wide angle lens out in the yard with us the other day and took a few snap shots, so I thought I would share them. She’s pure American Pit Bull Terrier. What a great dog!!!!
WordPress Gallery
Wow, I guess reading is good. Who would have thought? I was just reading some older posts from the iThemes blog and noticed a post about making your WP galleries look great. Thought I would pass it along to the rest of you who missed it as well.
iThemes Media
Yesterday I started my new job at iThemes Media. If you stop by my blog very often, you know who they are because I talk about them all the time. This is a really exciting opportunity for me. I by far have the weakest skill set in this office, and I love it. I am surrounded with people who are excellent at what they do, and I am absorbing everything I can.
James, the designer, is fantastic. When he comes in on time (I hope you are reading this James), I really enjoy seeing some of his step by step processes of making logos and site design. Besides being a great designer, he is also great if you ever need to be insulted or cut down. Thanks James!
Chris, the resident code ninja, sits next to me and expands what I know on a minute to minute basis. If it has a a keyboard, he can run it and tell you most things about it. When he gets in to words I have never heard, I just nod my head and hope I can remember it long enough to Google it after our conversation. Great guy too.
Then there is Mr. Cory Miller. Cory knows more stuff about more stuff that I probably ever will. He may not be an expert designer or an amazing coder, but he has great working knowledge of both. Put that on top of being a great people person, and you are spelling success. I want to be a part of anything this guy is doing.
Basically what I am trying to say is that I am really excited about starting work here. Now I guess I should stop writing and get back to work…
Vista Employees
I recently did a little series of photos about some of my fellow employees at The Vista newspaper. I gave them absolutely no direction. I just waited until they did something that looked like them, and shot what happened. Some of them are a little more extremem than others. And some are more naked.
conjure the occasional portmanteau. Besides web, I am also a photographer. At one point, I was actually going to school for photography, but a 
