These are the Gomes children, Ben, Emma & Anna. We were scheduled to photograph them and their parents last month, but a broken arm sidelined one of the girls. We rescheduled for when the cast would come off, and then …
There’s nothing that makes the eyes of a youngster light up more than opening a package on Christmas. It still works pretty good, even when you’re an old fart. Speaking of farts, did you know that whoopee cushions make excellent …
On our way out to our car to begin our trip down to the Bay Area for Christmas, Lori let out a “Yuck”. After looking closer at the cause of her exclamation, she realized it wasn’t what she thought it …
In case you ever want to take up patternmaking, here are the tools you’ll need to purchase. This is one of the last photo’s taken for Lori’s textbook, and she’s almost done with the text. Yeah! Lori is so thorough, …
Company 4 of the Ferndale Fire Dept. is going to be raffling off a brand new Harley Davidson Fat Boy so today I went up to Redwood Harley Davidson to photograph the bike that is going to be raffled. After …
Two large packages arrived at out studio today, and since we weren’t going to be here for Christmas, I opened them up early. Good thing too, since I don’t think Kate would have wanted to spend the holidays in a …
Some entries in the tractor parade get quite long, and are hard to photograph, even with an extreme wide angle lense. Such was the case with the Bansen’s entry. (The Bansen’s own the farm where Lauren got to visit.) Their …
Another of our favorite floats from the tractor parade this year was Brian Morrison’s entry. His tractor was pulling several packages that had kids popping their head out of. Two of the packages were recycled at our studio. If you …
I owed you all a picture of the Ferndale Christmas Tree, since the fire interupted the tree lighting ceremony when I planned to take it. Since it didn’t rain at all today (yeah!) I thought I better get one taken …
For the first time since we’ve moved here, Ferndale’s Tractor Parade was a dry event. After last night’s rain and wind it didn’t look hopeful, but the rain stopped earlier in the day, and it only drizzled for a few …
Just in case you didn’t think the first one was cute enough, here’s another one. Today we had our first hands on training session for the Fire Academy class I’m taking. After a short classroom session we proceeded to a …
Obesity in America is hitting epidemic proportions. Too many families are eating out, stuffing themselves with deep fried foods, huge portions of meats, and then topping it all of with some decadent desert like chocolate cake. Wait, that’s what I …
Today was mostly spent dropping off the truck, waiting for it to be fixed and picking up the truck. Then Mom and Dad took us out to Outback for a belated birthday dinner. Lot’s of great food, great service, and …
Earlier this year, Natalya came up to Ferndale to get her picture taken, and we discovered we had the same birthday, only 13 years apart. When she heard we were traveling down to the Bay Area, she wanted to get …
After last years Christmas time fire and the way the call came over, I was expecting the worst. Fortunately the fire was in the rear of an outbuilding at the back of the property, and while it was burning pretty …
As we were walking down to the Ferndale Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, I snapped this picture of the moon rising over Ferndale’s Main Street. I was really overjoyed that it wasn’t raining, and I was hopeful to get some good …
This morning, before the sun even rose, the Ferndale Fire Department was busy hanging lights on our town Christmas Tree. Two climbers made there way to a permanent platform 130 feet up, and then using ropes and pulleys, the strands …
Engine 2 is the next engine that will be replaced, as it is almost 30 years old. Company 2 is currently in the process of designing the specs for the replacement and they wanted pictures of the current rig on …
Today our eagerly awaited replacement for our rescue rig finally arrived. It still needs radios and other equipment installed, but we did get our first look at it. Other than the red wheels, I really like it. It has a …
Today the kids came by and decorated our Christmas tree on Main Street. They were already in progress when we got to work, so I quickly ran in and grabbed the camera. This year I got smart and wired the …
I’m going to be taking pictures of the Ferndale Fire Department members for the web site. So today I started on my own. It’s hard doing a self portrait, checking for focus and making sure you’re sitting in the frame …
This is 7 month old Darrian, who came in recently with her family for a portrait. After we finished the group shots I started taking individual shots of the kids. I started with Darrian’s 4 year old brother, then Darrian. …
Well last month wasn’t very stellar as far as my reporting went. Only 6 pictures! Seemed the second half of the month I was either in bed with the flu or it was raining so I just didn’t get out …
The rain kept me indoors lately, so sorry about the lack of updates the last week. The only photos I had taken were for Lori’s book, which, while being instructive for the patternmaker, aren’t exactly exciting on their own. Tonight …
This was a little experiment to figure out how to create a Quicktime VR object movie. I’ve created panoramas before where you spin the camera inside a room for example, but in an object movie it is the object that …
Deer hunting season is just over, otherwise this guy probably wouldn’t be so conspicuous. He was in the neighbor’s yard, along with about 6 other deer. I’m not sure, but I think he’s expressing his opinion on the recent weather …
That seems to be Trevor’s favorite question lately. He knows as soon as he hears the cookie bag rustling, that milk will shortly follow. This picture is just for Mom. She’ll probably never eat in our house again.
