The Nysaverse

Yay! Turkey, gravy, stuffing… and all in quantities guaranteed to make my stomach wish the holiday had never existed…

Well, lets see if we can survive the holiday without exploding. Particularly since Thanksgiving “dinner” will be duplicated - once at my parents’, once at Jenny’s parents’. Ooph… Lotsa food!

Again with the Marching Band photos… This time from all the games!

I now have marching band halftime/postgame photos online for the Wisconsin game this weekend. Nothing much, and with my good wide-angle lens gone (vacationing in New Zealand and Tahiti at the moment) these are not my sharpest MB photos. While equipment isn’t the really important part of photography, is sure does make some things easier - like razor sharp wide-angle shots at 300 feet! Sorry, this old lens just doesn’t cut it!

Check out the images:

Well, probably not, but…

Got my first paid photography gig this week. After taking some photos at work to use as examples for our illustrators, apparently they were impressed with the amount of equipment I had (Gary, if you’re reading this, shame on you for that thought!). And since they needed a studio photo of some of their boxes (for distributors, etc.), I was asked if I could handle such a request.

Now after a couple hours and over a hundred photos later, I’ve had an image purchased. Not bad for something I look on as a hobby.

Mind you, this is not technically my first photograph published… I’ve actually had two prior photos - both marching band photos printed in the University of Minnesota’s Gopher Game Day pamphlet… One was not attributed (miscommunication, I believe), but last weekend’s pamphlet had my name in it :)

Tony’s still got me beat, cash-wise. But for the number of photos I actually had to post-process for a single commercial photo, versus his wedding gig, I probably came out ahead in the $/effort department… Hi, Tony!