24 Saturday Jan 2015
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Alabama, Brunette, Female, Laura Chapman, Model, Photo Shoot, Photography, Tannehill
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I’ve been working on pictures all day today and ran across Miss Laura. She needed a pick me up after going through some crap in her life so I cut her a good deal on some pictures. She had never “modeled” before so all this was new to her. We both had a good time working together.
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24 Saturday Jan 2015
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365 Photo Challenge, Alabama, College, Dana Micael, Model, Photo Shoot, Photography, Saturday, Tuscaloosa
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I hope everyone is having a wonderful Saturday. I Had a photo shoot cancel on me so I’m spending the day going over past photo’s and trying to tweak them for publication. This is Dana Micael and she’s from Tuscaloosa a college town about forty-five minutes from here. I met here a couple of years ago and was fortunate enough to work with her a couple of hours.
The weather here has finally cleared and the son is shining but wind the temps are a little chilly. I’m planning on doing some timelapse photography of the sunset if the clouds permit.
Get out and enjoy this weekend if you can.
Life goes on.
22 Thursday Jan 2015
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365 Photo Challenge, Alabama, Barefoot, Birmingham, Botanical Gardens, cold weather, Flowers, Photo Shoot, Photography, Rain, Rose, Spring, Weather
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Another dreary, wet day in the deep south. With the temps hovering in the low to mid forties and low thick clouds that hung around most of the day made this boy wish for spring even more today. Rain is falling right now and is expected to stick around until early Saturday morning with a chance of light snow before ending.
I have a photo shoot scheduled for Saturday afternoon with a young single mom. Nothing too fancy just some catalogue work. I haven’t photographed anyone in quite some time. Lately all I’ve been able to shoot are some landmarks and my pets. I hope she isn’t afraid of some cool weather and we get some good shots.
The above photo is from the Botanical Gardens located here in the Birmingham area. It’s free to enter and has sever genre of flowers and trees to sit and ponder things through. I really enjoy going there when I have the time to spend. The last time I was there I nearly had a hawk on top of me. She was after a squirrel and I got in her way.
16 Friday Jan 2015
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365 Photo Challenge, Alabama, Cloudmont, daughters, Ice, Mentone, Photography, Red Neck, ski, Skiing, snow
That’s what my co workers call it anyway. Cloudmont is located in Mentone, Alabama. It’s nearly 2 hours from where I live. Last year I took my two daughters and one of their girl friends there for an afternoon of skiing. It’s all man made and it’s all ice. They call it “red neck” because nearly everyone there skiing was wearing camouflage. A deer hunters paradise.
Personally, I’ve never skied and I’ve never really cared too. I used to roller skate and I’ve went ice skating once but I stayed on my butt the whole night. Snow skiing to me is just asking for trouble. I’ve always said that the good Lord was gracious enough to give me a lot of things and one thing He gave me was common sense. As Mike Rowe is fond of saying in dangerous situations, “It’s ill advised my friend”.
Both my daughters and their friend all learned how to ski that day and in fact went down the bunny slope. I was a proud dad to see them do this. My son, being in the Boy Scouts, got a chance a few years back to go to Cloudmont and not only learned to ski but got his Snow Sports Merit Badge.
28 Tuesday Oct 2014
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Birmingham Botanical Gardens is Alabama’s largest living museum with more than 12,000 different plants in its living collections. The Gardens’ 67.5 acres contains 25+ unique gardens, 30+ works of original outdoor sculpture and miles of serene paths.
The Gardens features the largest public horticulture library in the U.S., conservatories, a wildflower garden, two rose gardens, the Southern Living garden, and Japanese Gardens with a traditionally crafted tea house. Education programs run year round and over 10,000 school children enjoy free science-curriculum based field trips annually.
Birmingham Botanical Gardens, the most visited free attraction in Alabama, is open daily, offering free admission to more than 350,000 yearly visitors. (Copied from the Birmingham Botanical Garden’s website).
I’ve been going to this place for years and over the years I can tell that this place has lost a little of it’s luster. I imagine that the economy has made a huge impact on the finances this place gets. Don’t get me wrong, this place is still beautiful and full of life. But to be honest, there’s a lot of maintenance that needs to be done. The maintenance staff was working hard while I was there this past week and I guess it takes time to bring everything up to date. Then again, they may just be trying to get everything ready for winter.
If you’re ever in the Birmingham area I would highly recommend spending a couple of hours in this place. You can sit on one of the many benches and listen to the sound of chipmunks playing around in the leaves. Of course, right now with the constructions going on across the street you can also hear the sound of jackhammers off in the distance. You can also hear the sound of the train whistle located nearby at the Birmingham Zoo.
14 Sunday Sep 2014
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Life has been busy and full of activities. Work still sucks but I only have 3 yrs 11 months and 15 days left before I can retire at 55. But who’s counting?
My health hasn’t changed much. My eyesight has not improved much and I’m still taking ejections every month. My CML is still not under control yet but I’m hopping that by my next doctor’s visit that will change. When I was diagnosed my levels were at 138%. At my last visit two months ago it had dropped to .73%. 0% is where it needs to be. My next visit will be this Tuesday so I’m hopping for the best.
I turned 51 one month ago tomorrow. For my birthday my son gave me two sets of tickets to a couple of Alabama games. What is so special about this is that my son plays for the Million Dollar Band. He is a senior this year and we have not been to a game with ticket prices being as high as they are we just couldn’t afford for the rest of the family to go.
My wife and one of my daughters went to a wedding while my parents, my other daughter and I went to the game. Needless to say getting to our seats was an adventure within itself. Both my parents are in their early to mid 70’s. The tickets we had were in the highest portion of the stadium that you could be. I was really worried for my mom who has trouble walking long distances. Once we finally made it to our seats we all had a great time watching the game as well as watching our son march on the field. Couldn’t see him but I know he was down there somewhere.
As l’m going through the pictures of yesterday, I am reminded that life moves quickly. It seems just like yesterday that my son and I was playing catch in our back yard. Now I’m seeing him in full uniform marching in a college band. Where does the time go. I took a picture of my parents with my son and daughter. As I’m sitting here in front of the computer editing the picture I realize that life does have a purpose. My parents had a purpose raising me and now it’s my turn to raise my kids. I think my parents did an outstanding job with me and I’m hopping I’m doing the same with my kids. So far no arrest records have been made on either of my kids so apparently I’m doing a fair job.
12 Wednesday Feb 2014
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We got close to 4 inches of snow this afternoon. Got to leave work to boot. The only thing I’m not going to like about this is that my Dr. appointment that I’ve long awaited for is probably going to be postponed. Oh well, get to play in the snow in the morning.
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25 Saturday Jan 2014
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Had a great time today spending it with my daughters and their friend. We went to a ski resort here in Alabama. Sounds funny but it’s true. We do have a ski resort here in the deep south. It’s all man made but it’s snow. It has to be below 28 degrees f at night and the humidity has to be below 30 percent before they can make the stuff and the way the weather has been lately they haven’t had any trouble making it.
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