Went out shooting on Fri 09.28.2007 :)
Movie:
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Shooting
Funny how this is shooting blog, either cameras or guns.
Went out shooting on Fri 09.28.2007 :)
Movie:
Went out shooting on Fri 09.28.2007 :)
Movie:
Monday, September 10, 2007
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Seniors 08.23.2007
Had a busy last weekend with two Seniors.
Katie (top) came back for some studio shots, and they turned out great.
Courtney (bottom) also had a very nice shoot. She's really into music, so when I said "Rock Out!"..... she did :)
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Cindy and Layne
On 08.16.2007 I worked with Cindy and Layne for their engagement photos. What a cute couple! She's a supermodel, and he's Bruce Willis straight out of Die Hard. How can their wedding not rock? Their wedding is 09.08.2007 so look for more images then.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Camera Saturday 07.28.2007
Good day shooting.
Followed soon-to-be-Hollywood Jenna Good and family around downtown Des Moines. Got to see giant bugs at the Science Center. Got to talk about video games and Star Wars with a couple of cool kids.
Also worked with local Senior Katie for some images. #1 not only was she a natural, #2 she just seems like a fun girl to be around.
These images were taken about 10 seconds apart. I don't think I'm THAT funny of a guy, but maybe she's just full of energy and ready to crack up at the click of a shutter. It's gotta be the second one.
Followed soon-to-be-Hollywood Jenna Good and family around downtown Des Moines. Got to see giant bugs at the Science Center. Got to talk about video games and Star Wars with a couple of cool kids.
Also worked with local Senior Katie for some images. #1 not only was she a natural, #2 she just seems like a fun girl to be around.
These images were taken about 10 seconds apart. I don't think I'm THAT funny of a guy, but maybe she's just full of energy and ready to crack up at the click of a shutter. It's gotta be the second one.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Date Night
A and I made some time to got out on Sat 07.21.2007. It was a good day all around.
1) Shooting range. A got to put about 200 rounds through her Glock 19. It was a full-time job keeping the 15 round mags full.
2) Dining at Zen, some new noodle bar in downtown DSM. Really pretty good food and the waiter took mercy on me and brought me a fork with my meal.
3) Spamalot. The theatre production of Monty Python's The Holy Grail. Not as good as Le Mis, but way funnier.
Have a Senior photo shoot this weekend and I just booked a wedding shoot for next year! Yippie!
Friday, June 29, 2007
Wedding photos
Things have been happening, I'm just too
1) busy
2) shy
to post.
I will try to change that.
On 06.23.2007 I shot images of Andrea and Myron's wedding. What a cute young couple!
Some examples. It was hard not to take a good shot of them. Lots of smiles :)
Coming up this weekend:
The Des Moines Arts Festival
Wild West Stunt Show
Expect more photos!
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Taking out the Trash
*From my hometown*
Taking out the trash
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By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! SportsMay 22, 2007
This spring, six Penn State football players were arrested and charged for crimes stemming from an off-campus fight in which at least 15 Nittany Lions were present. The charged included a couple of star players, although what apparently bothered coach Joe Paterno the most was how many of his kids were willing to be involved.
And so Paterno, 80 now but no less tough, no less disciplined, hatched a plan to set things right within his program. He'll let the local legal and student judicial process play out, but regardless he decided that to keep people from thinking his team was trash, it'll spend the fall cleaning it up.
According to Paterno, the Penn State football team will clean Beaver Stadium after each home football game this fall. It'll gather garbage, sweep stairs and maybe even hose parts down.
It'll be Notre Dame on Saturday, nacho spills on Sunday.
It's a job that usually goes to members of club sports on campus – say, rugby or crew – which do it to raise money so they can compete. Paterno said the clubs still will get the $5,000 for the job, but his guys, fresh off playing 60 minutes of major college football the day before, will do all the work starting Sunday morning.
"We're all going to do it, everybody," Paterno told the Harrisburg Patriot-News after a banquet in suburban Philadelphia. "Not just the kids that were involved. 'Cause we're all in it together. This is a team embarrassment. I wouldn't call it anything much other than that."
This is easily the greatest punishment in recent collegiate history, an absolutely diabolical, telling, high-impact bit of discipline that should remind one and all that what Paterno has been doing out in State College, Pa., all these years is more than just win 363 football games, including 20 the past two seasons.
In a coaching business so full of phonies who talk character only to bend the rules, who consider the definition of discipline a player's weight-room attendance, who wouldn't dare pull something like this because it might hurt recruiting, here's Joe Pa, four decades on the job and not giving a damn.
Except about what's right.
The incident was as simple as it was ugly. One player, Anthony Scirrotto, and his girlfriend were insulted and Scirrotto punched passers-by on the street, according to the police. Ultimately, Scirrotto called some teammates, they rushed an off-campus party where the passers-by were and a brawl ensued. More players showed up later.
"He got a little irate, called up a couple of his buddies and said, 'Hey, come on down,' " Paterno said. "They went over there and they got in a fight."
Who was right and who was wrong still is being sorted out by the judicial system. Not by Paterno, of course. The details don't seem to matter to him. Rather than figure out which individuals did what, who arrived when, he decided to hammer the entire team, if for nothing less than lacking the leadership to stop the incident from getting out of hand.
On college campuses where football stars often are treated to a lower standard, Paterno is going, once again, for a higher one.
"I just thought that, hey, we had 14, 15 kids – I don't even know how many – that were involved in something embarrassing, and I think that we need to prove to people that we're not a bunch of hoodlums," he said.
The entire team also will have to build a house for Habitat for Humanity and volunteer for the Special Olympics this summer. But the worst punishment no doubt will be cleaning up Penn State's mammoth 107,282-seat stadium.
A job usually left for others now will be done by Penn State's multimillion-dollar football team. Paterno can't see how this is any different. All the kids on campus are the same, so if the rugby team can find the energy to clean the stadium, so can his guys.
"I don't condone (the fight)," Paterno said. "Our kids were wrong."
And across the nation college football coaches faint.
Most coaches have spent their offseason complaining about not being able to text butt-kissing messages to recruits. They no sooner would wear out their players on an off-day with garbage picking than give up their country club memberships.
At too many places in college football, the kids never are wrong. Punishments often are things that actually help the team: more running, early-morning weightlifting. It is rarely public, rarely embarrassing and never, at least to my knowledge, a blanket shot across the entire team, a true call for leadership and shared values.
But this is why Joe Paterno is Joe Paterno
He isn't worried about hurt feelings. He isn't worried about potential recruits. He isn't worried about guys sacking garbage on Sunday morning.
He's worried about the reputation of his players, his program and his school. He's worried about cleaning things up immediately, starting with the stadium.
Dan Wetzel is Yahoo! Sports' national columnist. Send Dan a question or comment for potential use in a future column or webcast.
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=dw-paterno052207&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
Taking out the trash
td.yspwidearticlebody { font-size: 13.5px; }
By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! SportsMay 22, 2007
This spring, six Penn State football players were arrested and charged for crimes stemming from an off-campus fight in which at least 15 Nittany Lions were present. The charged included a couple of star players, although what apparently bothered coach Joe Paterno the most was how many of his kids were willing to be involved.
And so Paterno, 80 now but no less tough, no less disciplined, hatched a plan to set things right within his program. He'll let the local legal and student judicial process play out, but regardless he decided that to keep people from thinking his team was trash, it'll spend the fall cleaning it up.
According to Paterno, the Penn State football team will clean Beaver Stadium after each home football game this fall. It'll gather garbage, sweep stairs and maybe even hose parts down.
It'll be Notre Dame on Saturday, nacho spills on Sunday.
It's a job that usually goes to members of club sports on campus – say, rugby or crew – which do it to raise money so they can compete. Paterno said the clubs still will get the $5,000 for the job, but his guys, fresh off playing 60 minutes of major college football the day before, will do all the work starting Sunday morning.
"We're all going to do it, everybody," Paterno told the Harrisburg Patriot-News after a banquet in suburban Philadelphia. "Not just the kids that were involved. 'Cause we're all in it together. This is a team embarrassment. I wouldn't call it anything much other than that."
This is easily the greatest punishment in recent collegiate history, an absolutely diabolical, telling, high-impact bit of discipline that should remind one and all that what Paterno has been doing out in State College, Pa., all these years is more than just win 363 football games, including 20 the past two seasons.
In a coaching business so full of phonies who talk character only to bend the rules, who consider the definition of discipline a player's weight-room attendance, who wouldn't dare pull something like this because it might hurt recruiting, here's Joe Pa, four decades on the job and not giving a damn.
Except about what's right.
The incident was as simple as it was ugly. One player, Anthony Scirrotto, and his girlfriend were insulted and Scirrotto punched passers-by on the street, according to the police. Ultimately, Scirrotto called some teammates, they rushed an off-campus party where the passers-by were and a brawl ensued. More players showed up later.
"He got a little irate, called up a couple of his buddies and said, 'Hey, come on down,' " Paterno said. "They went over there and they got in a fight."
Who was right and who was wrong still is being sorted out by the judicial system. Not by Paterno, of course. The details don't seem to matter to him. Rather than figure out which individuals did what, who arrived when, he decided to hammer the entire team, if for nothing less than lacking the leadership to stop the incident from getting out of hand.
On college campuses where football stars often are treated to a lower standard, Paterno is going, once again, for a higher one.
"I just thought that, hey, we had 14, 15 kids – I don't even know how many – that were involved in something embarrassing, and I think that we need to prove to people that we're not a bunch of hoodlums," he said.
The entire team also will have to build a house for Habitat for Humanity and volunteer for the Special Olympics this summer. But the worst punishment no doubt will be cleaning up Penn State's mammoth 107,282-seat stadium.
A job usually left for others now will be done by Penn State's multimillion-dollar football team. Paterno can't see how this is any different. All the kids on campus are the same, so if the rugby team can find the energy to clean the stadium, so can his guys.
"I don't condone (the fight)," Paterno said. "Our kids were wrong."
And across the nation college football coaches faint.
Most coaches have spent their offseason complaining about not being able to text butt-kissing messages to recruits. They no sooner would wear out their players on an off-day with garbage picking than give up their country club memberships.
At too many places in college football, the kids never are wrong. Punishments often are things that actually help the team: more running, early-morning weightlifting. It is rarely public, rarely embarrassing and never, at least to my knowledge, a blanket shot across the entire team, a true call for leadership and shared values.
But this is why Joe Paterno is Joe Paterno
He isn't worried about hurt feelings. He isn't worried about potential recruits. He isn't worried about guys sacking garbage on Sunday morning.
He's worried about the reputation of his players, his program and his school. He's worried about cleaning things up immediately, starting with the stadium.
Dan Wetzel is Yahoo! Sports' national columnist. Send Dan a question or comment for potential use in a future column or webcast.
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=dw-paterno052207&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Things do happen
I just don't get around to posting them.
The real news is really from last month. On Feb 1st my dad died. He had been in a and out for the hospital for the past several years but this was serious. We dropped everything and got to him as fast as we could. We got in town 2 days before he passed away.
Monday, January 01, 2007
Sorry I'm so boring
to anybody that reads this.
Updates:
1) A cylinder in the engine of the Saturn is blown. $2000 and the car didn't last a year :(
2) Just got back from a trip to Moline, IL for a cousin Chrystal and Luke's wedding. It was very pretty and with more Groomsmen and Bridesmaids than usual.
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