This is just a quick note to say that our gallery system is currently down.  Right in the midst of the holiday season.  Computers have a great sense of timing when it comes to messing up, don’t they?

Unfortunately we’re at the mercy of our “web guys.”  Hopefully they will be back up in a few days–thank you for your patience while we work on getting everything fixed as soon as possible!

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We’ve been traveling all over the place, and I think we’ve only been home for about one week out of the past month.  So now that we’re back, we’re playing mad catch up!

 

Here’s one of the resulting images from the McLellan’s in action that I promised about two weeks ago.

 

Most of the time when we’re on the beach, there isn’t a single cloud in the sky to play with.  This day was absolutely perfect.  I love the lines, reflections, drama in the sky in this shot of Mel’s.

 

 

I was reading Joe Photo’s blog this morning, and came across this story and thought it was worth sharing:

A son and his father were walking on the mountains.
Suddenly, the son falls, hurts himself and screams:
“AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”
To his surprise, he hears the voice repeating,
somewhere in the mountain: “AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”

Curious, he yells: “Who are you?”
He receives the answer: “Who are you?”

Angered at the response, he screams: “Coward!”
He receives the answer: “Coward!”

He looks to his father and asks: “What’s going on?”

The father smiles and says: “My son, pay attention.”

And then he screams to the mountain: “I admire you!”
The voice answers: “I admire you!”

Again the man screams: “You are a champion!”
The voice answers: “You are a champion!”

The boy is surprised, but does not understand.
Then the father explains: “People call this ECHO,
but really this is LIFE. It gives you back everything you say or do.
Our life is simply a reflection of our actions.

If you want more love in the world, create more love in your heart.
If you want more competence in your team, improve your competence.
This relationship applies to everything, in all aspects of life;

Life will give you back everything you have given to it.
Your life is not a coincidence. It’s a reflection of you!

– Author Unknown

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I’m always inspired/pushed/provoked by stories & writing like this. I’ve often wanted to write and share similar things, but have yet to do it. I’ve been considering either starting a new blog or creating a separate section of this one where I can write/share this type of thing. In addition to that, we also get lots of emails from other photographers asking questions about how we do things, etc. I always try to get back with everyone as soon as I can, but as more emails come in, and as we get busier and busier, sometimes things slip through the cracks or it takes a long time to respond. Because of this, I’ve also been kicking around the idea of creating a blog for photographers. There are probably a few other things I’d like to write about as well, but I don’t necessarily think I should just start cramming it all on here!

I will eventually find an outlet for these things that I want to do at some point; but if I knew there were a lot of people interested right now, I would make it happen faster. So that brings me to the question: Are you interested?

Below, I’ve created the super easy, handy poll for you to use. It would also be helpful if you left a comment or sent me an email with things you might specifically be interested in, or not interested in. Depending upon the response, I will make something happen. It is up to YOU!