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Well. Today is the first in a long list of milestones. No, it isn't the anniversary of the moon landing, no it isn't my birthday today, nor is it the day Cheeto's were invented. It's not the anniversary of the first Nikon camera or Nikkor Lens. Not a Canon anniversary either. It's not the anniversary of TTL, and it's not the date that I have finally become a Millionaire Thousand-aire. No. Today however IS the 1 year birthday: of the blog.

(Image courtesy of Google Images)

Since 1 year ago, I've attempted to put up at least 1 post every week, if not 2. Some weeks are more successful than others, and sometimes I've just been too busy doing this thing that I love so much to put up a little something on the blog. Doesn't mean I've forgotten it, after all I wasn't sure I'd even make it a year when I started this little project. However, even the modest readership of this blog has kept it going and I'd like to thank everyone that has actually continued to read for the last year. Speaking of which, How many people do read the blog?

In the last year the blog has received almost 3,000 Absolute unique visitors from 56 countries. This doesn't count RSS readership, which I know there are a few, but for whatever reason Google analytics doesn't track Google Reader... What does this all mean? That I'm going to have to learn to write a little better because obviously people have been reading this. More Importantly, you seem to keep reading it.

The greatest moment in my photography thus far, was last month at the Purdue Grand Prix. Someone I didn't know stopped me at the race to talk about my blog, and my work. It was an amazing experience, and it was great to know that people like my work. Photographer take photos for the photos to be seen. Thank you everyone, who enjoys looking at my work; and reading the stories on the blog that go with them. More Soon.

Basketball, Weddings, Overtime, Derby, Conflicts and Birthdays.......

So Wow. This has been a heck of a week. For work I drove almost 800 miles this week shooting Restaurants, Basketball, and Fire chiefs. Roller Derby, Police officers, and Course Guide covers. It's been a crazy week that culminated on Saturday with 2 Weddings, two All Star Basketball Games, a Roller Derby Double header, and a Birthday. (Happy Birthday Dawnya, wherever it is you've ended up).

Obviously I couldn't do all of those things on Saturday so It turned into a game of, what trumps what. Honestly it's good to have choices on what you want to do, but when you want to do everything it comes down to what you HAVE to do.

In the end I HAD to shoot the All Star Basketball Games in Conseco. I don't shoot basketball except for 1 week a year, and this was it. I love shooting sports, I used to shoot them at Purdue, but it just wasn't in the cards for me to continue doing sports on a regular basis.


I did end up making it to the second half of the second game at the Roller Derby, but that's only 30 minutes of Derby out of 120 total bout minutes. As this was the last bout of the home season, I was sort of disappointed that I couldn't be there for the girls. I did manage to get a few shots though, which you can find here.



Congrats to my friends Greg and Allison who got married last weekend in Michigan. I'm sorry I had to miss the wedding, but work obviously got in the way here more than once. Congratulations to John and Tina who got married as well; whose wedding I was unable to shoot because of all of the fore mentioned conflicts as well.

Otherwise this week has been particularly stressful because the basketball was a priority, but it was along with what normally takes me 40ish hours a week to accomplish anyway. I shot the cover for next semesters IUPUI course guide, a couple of dining guide inserts, as well as the Greenwood Fire Chief for the upcoming Honor our Hero's section at the paper. I wish I could have come up with a more dynamic image for the Fire Chief, but the weather wasn't very nice and there wasn't a whole lot of room in the foyer in the Fire Station so this is what I ended up with.


Over all I am looking forward to a bit slower of a week this week. I've still got a Cat I need to find a home for, that isn't happy I was gone for 80 hours last week; but that's why I didn't have a pet to start with. Despite the slightly less busy week, hopefully next week I'll have something interesting to write about. More soon.