Today I worked with Katy for the third time. She’s fun to work with, and she’s quite the trooper. Our last outing she got to stand in mucky water, and sit on the beach in cold weather and make it …
Earlier this week I got a surprise email from Mike McCoy. He happened to be looking for a web designer and photographer, and found my web site. Shortly thereafter, I received a box of parts to photograph. The company that …
Today as part of my EMT class, I got to watch this Honda Civic be turned into a one of a kind, truly unique, custom convertible. In case you want one just like it, here are the steps to follow. …
Some holidays are more stressfull then others, but I always thought that Halloween was one that rated towards the lower end of the scale. Unless you are a Jack O’Lantern. Coming across Fernbridge, I saw one Jack O’Lantern that even …
Here’s the other side of the wedding gown, again taken in the studio. By the way, if you’re wondering why these pictures of the studio don’t look anything like the picture of the studio with Lowell’s band playing, it’s because …
Landmark day! Not only did the lights finally arrive, but we booked our first studio portrait session for a lady in town who felt her grandkids needed pictures of her with her “white” hair. Seems it’s been awhile since she’s …
So after finishing the gallery side, we went hard to work on the studio side, even though the lights still haven’t arrived. As I stated before, we finished wallpapering the studio just minutes before our grand opening. The last few …
Here’s the gallery, all done. Yeah! I could have taken pictures this weekend, but I didn’t. With the pressure of the grand opening over, I did something all weekend that I hadn’t done in a long time, ride my motorcycles. …
Grand opening night! Here’s “Thank Jake” playing in the back room. We were wallpapering the studio until about 4:30pm. Grand opening party started at 5.
After Katie and I finished taking pictures at Big Lagoon, we went to a beach in Trinidad. I think it was the one where Luke is found in The Majestic. The beach had very hard, smooth sand, and when wet …
Katie, who I featured earlier, wanted to work on her portfolio too, and I was happy to oblige. So last Sunday we went up to Trinidad and Stone Lagoon to take some pictures. Since we had been having a mighty …
Natalya and I planned the shoot for a night with a full moon because I had this high concept for a picture. The concept ended up a bust, I should have checked the almanac a little better to find out …
This weekend while I was showing you fire pictures, I was really taking a rare weekend off from working on the studio, and instead worked in the studio. Natalya saw my work on a modeling web site and came up …
While making the coffee this morning, Lori exclaimed that the spiders were building the Golden Gate bridge in our backyard. Not sure what she meant by that, I took a look, and sure enough, there was a silk replica of …
Finally, at the end of the drill, we let it burn, and concentrated mainly on protecting the surrounding area, and working the fire so that the building collapsed in on itself. At this point you could roast marshmellows from about …
After we got practice fighting the fire inside the building, they let it build up and we concentrated on fighting it from the outside. This was to simulate what you might find if you arrived and the building was alread …
Here is the interior of the house before the fire was lit. Calling it a house was really overstating it. It looked to be a converted chicken coop, and much of the floor had rotted away. This picture was taken …
Tonight for our monthly drill, the Ferndale Volunteer Fire Department had a practice burn on a small dilapidated house. This was my first experience being inside a burning building (and hopefully all future experiences will be on the fire fighting …
We still have more work to do in the studio, and we’re still waiting for the new lights to arrive, but I had this dress on loan so Jessica and I took the studio through a trial run. I wanted …
Still more pictures were hung today, but I need more. It is fun though having this much room to display my work. The plant in the foreground was brought over by the folks at Ferndale Meat Company to welcome us …
Today was Jessica’s first day as my employee, also meaning that this was the first day I was boss. Some of the perks of being boss are that new employees bring you a Moo Bar. (Yum, Yum) Jessica’s first day …
I received several inquiries on what poster Grandma was selling. For Ferndale’s Sesquicentennial celebration I had a poster of one of my Ferndale photos printed. I wanted to have something to sell that weekend. I still have the poster in …
I hated yesterday’s picture so much that as soon as I located my wide angle lense in the boxes of stuff I brought over, I took another one. I still need to paint the wall on the left, but the …
Well you haven’t heard from me lately for several reasons. First, I’m still working on the gallery, more on that later. Second, Grandma has been visiting with us the last week. I should have taken pictures during her visit, but …
Saturday the festivities continued with a parade and many exhibits and open houses. This time I got to ride in the parade, and since the fire trucks were in the front, by the time we finished the route we were …
Today was the start of Ferndale’s two day Sesquicentennial celebration. From 6-9pm the merchants on Main Street hosted a hospitality night, serving refreshments in their shops. So even though we weren’t quite ready to open, we displayed some pictures, some …
Well you all know by now what’s been keeping me busy. So here is what’s been keeping Lori busy. She has been working on a dress for Paula to wear at an upcoming recital. Hopefully this will be the last …
Yesterday it was phones, today I got the cable installed for my high speed Internet access. This installation went much smoother, I was online within a few minutes of the truck driving away. And it didn’t require and subterrainian exploration …
Today the phones got installed. I was a bit naive on how commercial phone lines get installed. I figured they would place the terminal where I wanted it to come into the building and then I would wire from there. …
You can’t have a nice Victorian office without an antique cash register. We picked this up from some friends in the old house club (yep they have one up here too). The machine needs some restoration, and it is really …
Here’s a closeup of the graining effect. Not only does it look pretty realistic from normal viewing distance, but it also hides most of the surface defects that were present in the wainscoting, mostly from layers and layers of paint …
