Fall is here! Along with Spring, it's one of my favorite seasons. But Summer and Winter are pretty good too. I've been keeping busy with the kids and classes, but I've been trying to get out to shoot some fall colors. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of great color up in the mountains (compared to New England or the Rockies). Sure, there's maples, but that's about it. Everything else just turns brown. But in our home town there's lots of trees turning.
I recently went to a photography conference and heard Darrel Gulin speak. His images are probably more famous than he is, but hey, he's successful and had lots great advice. He travels the globe 9 months of the year, to Africa, South America, Antarctica, the Arctic, and around the western US. And which of his images sell the most? The ones he takes in his back yard garden. Granted, it's a nice garden, but hey, he's not a gardener. So next spring we'll see if we can't plant some things (and strategically place a fence or bird house or two) and see what happens.
My class is going well, for me at least. Human Anatomy & Physiology is a tough course for non-biology majors. Very interesting, but still tough. The challenge for me is to keep the material at their level. I try to get them to the point where, if they hear about some disease or aliment, they can say Hey! I know a little about that! I'm not cranking out med students; just students who actually know what a stem cell is, or why broken bones are better to have than torn ligaments.
With the comming of winter, my photography is going to be mostly limited to indoors, which means lots of pictures of my girls. Might not be as exciting as climbing up mountains or wading through streams, but it's still good practice. I'm
slowly gearing up to try to make some money at this. I've done ok so far, but I'll need to devote a lot more time to it.
Well, I find myself needing to update my blog ASAP, for my photography business. So, here I am again. This past year has been good; lots of camping, fun with the girls, discovered fly fishing. Big changes are coming up this next year though... Hopefully it'll all be for the better.
The weather's turning, and our days of playing outside are becoming few and far between. Even on these days that we're stuck inside, the girls get along so well. Except for refereeing the occasional fight, they're pretty much self sufficient most of the day. All day long they constantly make up games to play with each other, or read each other books or color together.
It's hard for me to imagine being so close to someone as my daughters are. For every day of their lives they've been together, first poking and prodding each others faces, learning to crawl, and helping each other walk. In fact, rarely are they not in the same house. They do play by themselves though; we all need "alone time", as they'll tell you.
As for me, I'm getting ready to wind up my Anatomy & Physiology class for the fall term. During Christmas break I'll be working on getting my foot in the door with some stock photography agencies, as well as try to get my little photography business a little further off the ground.
Fall is here! Along with Spring, it's one of my favorite seasons. But Summer and Winter are pretty good too. I've been keeping busy with the kids and classes, but I've been trying to get out to shoot some fall colors. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of great color up in the mountains (compared to New England or the Rockies). Sure, there's maples, but that's about it. Everything else just turns brown. But in our home town there's lots of trees turning.
I recently went to a photography conference and heard Darrel Gulin speak. His images are probably more famous than he is, but hey, he's successful and had lots great advice. He travels the globe 9 months of the year, to Africa, South America, Antarctica, the Arctic, and around the western US. And which of his images sell the most? The ones he takes in his back yard garden. Granted, it's a nice garden, but hey, he's not a gardener. So next spring we'll see if we can't plant some things (and strategically place a fence or bird house or two) and see what happens.
My class is going well, for me at least. Human Anatomy & Physiology is a tough course for non-biology majors. Very interesting, but still tough. The challenge for me is to keep the material at their level. I try to get them to the point where, if they hear about some disease or aliment, they can say Hey! I know a little about that! I'm not cranking out med students; just students who actually know what a stem cell is, or why broken bones are better to have than torn ligaments.
With the comming of winter, my photography is going to be mostly limited to indoors, which means lots of pictures of my girls. Might not be as exciting as climbing up mountains or wading through streams, but it's still good practice. I'm slowly gearing up to try to make some money at this. I've done ok so far, but I'll need to devote a lot more time to it.
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