http://radiantphoto.fotopages.com/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:37:43 GMT Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:37:43 GMT http://www.fotopages.com/images/rss_logo.gif http://shw.fotopages.com/ 40 60 Here are some recent pictures of Christopher. In order to get him to agree to do pictures these days, we have to do things "his way." His idea was to do a series of silly images, which you will have no trouble picking out from the bunch. http://radiantphoto.fotopages.com/?entry=757102 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT Ok all, I'm attempting to keep this updated regularly again. Who knows how long it'll last? Definetly not me.... Little updates as to what's been going on recently. School I'm nearly finished with school, in fact I graduate in a month. It's quite bittersweet, as I'm sick of being away from home and the kids so much, but I'm going to miss my photo professor tremendously. I love taking photo classes and learning everything I can squeeze into my head about photography. The other classes, not so much. (In fact I have a research essay due tomorrow morning that I haven't finished writing, and have absolutely no want to do...) I will be taking two classes after graduating, one this summer (alternative hand coating processes) and one in the fall (studio portrait photography). I've been shooting with a medium format Mamiya 645 camera for the past several months. I only have one lens for it (80mm fixed lens). I love working with the larger film size, and it's much more convienent to lug around than the huge view camera I was using for a while. I prefer it to the 35mm. If I need something more compact, I simply shoot digital. I honestly can't remember the last time I shot with the 35mm camera. Work The business is going pretty ok. I have 4 weddings booked for this summer so far. I've done a couple sittings here and there, but not too many which is fine by me. I shot last week all the art work for the student juried art magazine at school, a paying job that also looks great on a resume. Also, last December I was approached by a design firm to shoot a series of portraits to advertise a line of photo kiosks. This turned into my first commercial job, one of which I'm rather proud of. In addition to shooting it, I had to also find the models. This proved to be an extremely difficult task in and of itself, but worked out ok in the end. Personal With all that going on, did you really think I'd have time for "me" time?? :-) http://radiantphoto.fotopages.com/?entry=757093 Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT tis the season of bubbling bliss in the basement....we're in the process of making this years wine! we've bottled two cases of blueberry (20% alcohol this round-- it packs a powerful punch) and we have another two cases in the works. we also just picked up a couple more carboys and I'm going to make my first ever batch of wine (it's been Nick's project up until now, I've just reeped all the benefits)-- although as of right now I can't decide if it's going to be apple wine or hard cider. hmmmmm, decisions decisions..... :bad_idea: http://radiantphoto.fotopages.com/?entry=576072 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT Today's pictures are Abbie's newest pictures. I took these earlier today in the studio. There are quite a few of them, and all but one of the poses are her own. I really have a lot of luck letting the kids pose themselves, they're less rigid, much more comfy and therefore more photogenic. Family and friends, if you would like any reprints of these, please let me know which one! http://radiantphoto.fotopages.com/?entry=528354 Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT Today's pictures are of the kids cooling off! With high temps and high humidity it's hard to get them outside most of the time-- unless I turn the sprinklers on first. http://radiantphoto.fotopages.com/?entry=513700 Fri, 05 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT Have you ever seen the movie "Spaceballs" ? It's a spoof of Star Wars by Mel Brooks (that should say it all) starring John Candy and Rick Moranis among others. I remember watching this movie with my dad as a kid... One of the characters in it was called Lord Dark Helmet and was played by Rick Moranis. When Christopher was learning to ride his bike, we could not find his bike helmet anywhere, so he borrowed the motorcycle helmet we had lying around the house. We started calling him Lord Helmet after that day.... LOL http://radiantphoto.fotopages.com/?entry=513504 Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT About 5 weeks I ago I started a regular weekly workout. Each week I have a minimum milage goal that includes a mixture of swimming, biking and running. I started at a goal of 30 miles and have now worked up to 40 total miles a week. The majority of my miles come from biking--bad knee dictates little running and I'm a terrible swimmer. I have always loved to bike, especially long distances, but have done very little of that since having children. Recently Nick and I decided to take a day trip-- on bikes-- to visit Grand Haven. We went this past week since Nick had taken a few days off of work. Grand Haven is a straight shot down LakeShore Drive making the trip very uncomplicated. It took us about an hour and 45 minutes to get there. We got something to eat and headed back home. It took us only 1 hour and 15 minutes to get back home-- we were hauling butt. On the way home we were coming over a hill ( there are a lot of BIG ups and downs on Lakeshore) and as we came up and over a hill we were very surprised by a huge piece of machinery (some type of street sweeper) engulfing the entire sidewalk in front of us. We didn't hear it coming because there was construction going on in the road that was very noisy. There were trees on either side of us and no where to go. Nick yelled, "Try to get to that driveway fast!" but the next second we realized that we would never make it. Nick swerved in to the trees and then the driver noticed us and backed off. It was close enough to freak us out pretty good, but we got a good laugh out of it after the fact. Total round trip miles: 33.4. Not too shabby! I'm hoping that sometime (possibly next summer) we can do a serious, multi-day road trip. http://radiantphoto.fotopages.com/?entry=513484 Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://radiantphoto.fotopages.com/?entry=510524 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT I purchased a new toy and it finally came in the mail today! Woo hoo! It's a digital slide copier...you attach a lens to the lens on your digital camera, pop in the slide at the base and shoot the picture. I've been sitting on these slides for a while (since May when I went up north) since it's so expensive to get them printed or even scanned in. :) Hopefully more to come soon! http://radiantphoto.fotopages.com/?entry=494982 Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT More pictures from the zoo...these are my favorite images from the day (a couple from the two previous days would fit into this catorgory as well). http://radiantphoto.fotopages.com/?entry=473242 Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT