We had a great family lifestyle session on Tybee Beach this morning.  The sky was amazing, and we had about a zillion birds following us everywhere that made for some really great images.  Photos from the session to come… but in the meantime, check out this great action shot of Mel that I grabbed:

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Shortly afterwards, one of me caught off guard.

 

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Mel and I were talking the other day, and we realized that we don’t post nearly as much personal stuff on here as we would like. Also, there are a lot of things in between the shoots (even work related) we’re doing all the time that we take photos of, but never seem to get around to getting any of it on the blog–it’s a lot of fun to write about what we shoot all the time, but if this can become more of a journal for us at the same time, I think that would be really great to look back and be able to see more of what we were doing other than just what photo shoots we did :) So here’s the beginning of more to come!

We tried to leave for Savannah early today so that we would be driving mostly during the day time, but tons of things always come up that need to be taken care of last minute, and we ended up leaving right as the sun was going down, and drove the entire way here in complete darkness. 8 hours later at 1:00 in the morning, here we are!

We’ve never been to Savannah before, and we always hear how beautiful it is. Well now that we’re here, I can say firsthand that it’s all true. Here’s the fabulous view from the window of the historic hotel we’re staying in:

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All kidding aside, from what we can see on the *other* side of the hotel, it does look like it is really great here. We’ll see for sure when the sun comes up… very shortly.

After the last race ended, we began a new race with two parts. Part 1: most miles over 30 days wins. Part 2: fastest 3 mile run. All I can say about part 1 is wow. Shannon Sewell destroyed us all. She came in first place with 139.59 miles! No joke, no typo. I’m getting tired just looking at the number. In comparison, second place was 63 miles. Congrats, Shannon! I would make some sort of comment about how I am going to take you DOWN next time… but that was pretty extreme… so I’ll just have to refrain from any smack talk for the time being for fear of not being able to deliver.

Fred Egan was in first place for part two for 29 days out of 30… and then, a last minute surprise… After being completely decimated by Shannon in part 1, I decided to give 200% effort to try to win part 2. I figured it would be pointless since I am incredibly slow. But I thought maybe I’d have a chance if I used a treadmill on high speed, and made that force me to go faster. On the last night of the race, I headed to the gym and tested out my theory. Ignoring all of the signs that tell you how important it is to stop if you feel dizzy or nausea, I pushed through anyway and was able to just barely take the top spot. I was more sore than I’ve ever been for almost an entire week, and felt sick for three full days… needless to say, I won’t be attempting that again for a long time! Congrats, Fred, for leading the entire month, and props to your speed! –Without a treadmill to help move my legs, I wouldn’t even have been close. I would probably have passed out on the side of the road after half a mile and still be laying there, recovering.

Everyone else who participated, good job all around and I look forward to the next race–I have barely walked 5 feet since it ended because I have no one to compete with.  Let’s get this thing rolling!