Pretty lucky guy

I'm lucky... blessed.... fortunate to have a wife like I have. 21 years married come August, and now 25 years together.

In addition to having a wonderful wife I got some unbelievably great friends. One is a dear dear friend of mine Kristi Hedberg, photographer extraordinary!

Yesterday at lunch Annette and I ran into Kristi and her girls at Tupelo Honey. Annette just got her hair done, which looks great! Kristi loved it also and latter in the day called and said come on over lets play around with some lighting and photograph her and that new hair do. We had a great time and I learned a lot from what I refer to her as the master. ;)

So here is one of the shots. Unprocessed much, quick tone controls in ACR.

I'm bored

Sophia! One of my favorite models and next door neighbors kid. I had the opportunity to keep her and her brother Bradley today. Was suppose to keep only Sophia, but schools were out so I got him too. Hard to entertain 2 kids, Sophia at 4 and Bradley at 7, Joseph my son at 14 and me at 45. What ever should we do.... Movies, McDonalds play land, and hide and seek from my camera seemed to be the course of the day.

Had to run a few errands with them, not real excited about driving around with me. Sophia kept telling me she was bored. I'm bored!... Paul, I'm bored.... I'm bored. Of course me and my smart ass ways play along to say the least. So, I decided that I would give Sophia "I'm Bored" a friend!

Sophia and her friend the board.

She didnt find the humor as Joseph and I did. ;)

My little princess!

Abused my son as a test dummy for some photo shots I am wanting to do with the neighbors kid. I will post them when I get them shot.

Weather, as usual, sucked. Gray skies, blowing snow and windy. And who wears shorts? Thats right, my little princess.

He actually has a princess shirt he wears as a joke in school. I wonder where he gets that humor from?

What are they keeping in or out

Makes you wonder what they are keeping in or out?

Thought it was a cool composition from a photo standpoint.

Humor today is the weather 2/20/10

Not really humor, just a put a smile on my face :)

When you go for 2 months of lousy winter weather and you have not only 1 nice weekend day but 2 in a row it makes me smile.

Out on the bike both days. Roads are a mess and bike was filthy along with me but well worth it.

I guess the humor of the day came from my trip to Chucky Cheese with the neighbors daughter Sophia. I am pretty sure they were at capacity with people INSIDE the building, and then of course there was smokers alley coming to the front door.

I made it about 45 minutes.

Sophia at her birthday last month

Whats so funny about this?

Something as a kid that was everywhere, on every corner, in every store, restaurant, gas station, you name it there was a phone or both.

Now, its a rarity. Was waiting on a friend to go teach the cyclist portion of drivers education today and low and behold there was a phone. What was even funnier was someone, came to the phone and used it while I was sitting there. Opted not to take her picture.

Now we all have cell phones. The days of the phone booth are long gone.

Updated humor for 2/18/2010

I guess some lessons are never learned. Havent been able to snap a shot of this one yet....

So I am sitting in Starbucks, around lunchtime. Came by for a quick place to do some work, and its turned out to be a longer stay than originally thought. That unto itself is rather funny...

But:

I am sitting here and I look outside at this guy smoking. Grossly overweight, I'd guess 400lbs and about 5-5 in height. As I pay a bit more attentions I notice a portable oxygen pack with him. Now, portable oxygen isnt flammable, but its an accelerate, but thats okay he's outside.

What strikes me as odd, or the lessons never learned is 1) he's overweight, BAD 2) he is smoking, which as most of us know isnt a good thing 3) he is on portable oxygen.

See the pattern here?