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My Name is Earl Wedding ReMix
September 25, 2007 – 8:29 am
I’ve got to tell you how great Animoto is. Obviously, their slideshows are awesome and they’re getting a lot of exposure around the photography blog world, but I was really bummed that I wasn’t able to show these slideshows with my blog software (Word Press) when played in Internet Explorer. Although I love Firefox and think it is a much better browser, IE still has a majority of users so, many of you couldn’t experience the shows. I contacted Animoto last week and asked them about it and they weren’t sure what was the problem but assured me they’d look into it. I was impressed that I heard back from them but honestly thought I was on my own on this and wouldn’t hear back. Just last night I got an email back from Jason, the gentlemen who had been helping me originally, and he had a work around for me. For those of you who have Word Press Blogs the the application to embed the video is at http://vodpod.com/wordpress. It works beautifully and now my Internet Explorer friends can see these videos!
Here’s a remix of the wedding I shot a couple of weeks ago.
Enjoy! (Click on the play button twice)
Football, Football, and a Little More Football
September 22, 2007 – 10:13 pm
I love football season. More so this year since two of my boys are playing flag football. I’m actually coaching Coy’s team, my middle son. Today started with an 8:30am game up in Highlands Ranch. I wasn’t sure about coaching football especially since I like being able to photograph the games, but it’s been a great experience and I’ve had the pleasure of coaching some wonderful boys. Hopefully I’ll be able to swing taking some pictures of my team…stay tuned!
From there we went straight to Logan’s game. I rented a 300mm lens to go with my Nikon D200 to photograph our local high school team (more on that later). Although, I’ve posted pictures of Logan playing already, I’ve got to post some more because, well…it’s MY blog! 
Plus my parents are out of town visiting my Grandma for her 85th birthday (Happy B-Day Grandma) and I’m sure they want to see their grandson! Here are some of my favorites.
Finally, I’ve had the pleasure of photographing our local high school football team, the Douglas County Huskies, the past 3 years. Today they faced off against the Range View Raiders, my wife’s alma mater. They put a shellacking to the Raiders by putting up 48 points to their 36 (sorry sweetie). The score makes the game look much closer than it was. The fourth quarter was played primarily by the second and third stringers. The Huskies booster club, the Huskies Quarterback Club, has hired me to photograph just the seniors. At the end of their season they have a banquet and all the seniors get 20×30 posters of them playing. Below is a sample of a possible format for each of the senior’s posters. The Huskies are now 4-0 heading into their homecoming game this coming Friday against Regis. Go HUSKIES!!
Tomorrow the Broncos play…I won’t be photographing that one, but I will be in front of the TV watching!
My Name is Earl
September 17, 2007 – 6:29 pm
This past weekend I had the honor of photographing a beautiful wedding for a friend of a friend. This wedding came to me by my good friend Carla. She introduced me to Shauna and I just knew we were going to get along. She’s a teacher, as were both my parents, and I have the utmost respect for teachers. More than that she’s a PE teacher, as was my dad. Since I have my degree in exercise science, I know the importance of physical education and it has to start with our children. It’s reassuring to know that there are people like Shauna out there teaching our kids!
I then got to meet her groom. Having myself worked at a construction company for eight years I also have a huge respect for what it takes to build and manage commercial construction jobs. Christian, the groom, is THE man on those kind of jobs. He’s the superintendent and has to manage all the labor on the site, make sure it meets the budget, and also is delivered to the owner on time. Nothing easy about it!
To be able to photograph two people with whom I completely respect and who are the nicest people was a true pleasure. They were both completely laid back and truly enjoyed the day and what it had in store for them. It was a true joy to capture this day for two very wonderful people.
Granddaughters Re-mix
September 14, 2007 – 10:30 pm
I posted some static images of this photo shoot earlier, but the images were more out of a test to see how the overlay script worked when clicking on an image. I know, I know…shut up with the geek speak and show me the photos. Well, I just came across an AWESOME site that creates high production quality slide shows with images and I just had to use this photo shoot as my first attempt at it. I knew the perfect song and I couldn’t wait to see what they came up with. I think you’ll be impressed and you’ve got to try it for yourself. You can sign up for free for 30 second slide shows, pay $3.00 for an individual full length video, or pay $30.00 per year for unlimited full length videos. It’s just so cool what you can do with digital photography and we’re just starting to scratch the surface. It appears that right now I’m only able to get the slide show to work in the Firefox browser. If you don’t have it you can get it here for free. I’m working on getting it to work in Explorer.
**Update: 09.25.07: This is now working in Explorer. Working with the gentlemen over at Animoto they informed me of a workaround to get the movie to play in a Word Press blog when viewed in Explorer. I’m telling you, these guys have a great product and even better customer service. Give em a try!
OK, enough techno-babble, this photo shoot deserves some better coverage anyway so, I’m glad to re-visit it. As I posted earlier, Julie, the girl’s grandmother in this photo shoot, used to teach PE with my dad. It really is amazing that she knew me when I was her grand daughters’ ages in these photos. It makes this photo shoot that much more special. Being able to photograph children is always an honor. Getting to do it for such a longtime personal friend of the family is truly a blessing.
Go Chiefs Beat the Broncos!!
September 8, 2007 – 3:41 pm
OK…There’s only ONE way I can justify that statement being a native of Colorado and a proud Broncos fan…My youngest son is playing flag football for the Chiefs. I know, I know, sacrilege, but at least it’s not the Raiders! I would have had to pull him from the program if that were the case! This was Logan’s first game…EVER. There is nothing more fun than watching a bunch of seven years olds run around a field trying to pull each other’s flags. 
This is what got me started in photography; my kids. Here are some images of my youngest playing football. I hope you enjoy.
