Book report.... Failing Forward

This week I've been reading a very encouraging book that I feel compelled to tell everyone about. It's called "Failing Forward" [Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success] by John Maxwell. Ok I must start out by saying that these kinds of books really add a lot of hope to your life. If your not putting positive stuff in it's very hard to have positive stuff come out.

The whole concept is that we often loose our perspective on failures, how ever big or small they are. Small failures are seen as avoidable & large failures are seen as an end to it all. If you think of the perspective from which some see their lives it's not hard to see why they arrived at the places they are now. Their fear of failure is so intense that it limits them, almost stops them in their tracks. I'm a little guilty of this by the way. This book deals with the myths about failure we must overcome in order to start using the failures to move us forward rather than back.

I have a strong belief that you just never give up. But even when we don't give up sometimes we don't really move forward either. It's very important to change our perspective on failure and use the knowledge we gain from it to allow us to move forward with our dreams and ideas. If you don't already own this book please pick it up. It's really hard to go wrong with any title from John Maxwell. Get it in the astore.

"The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure."

Rumors & Rumors of Rumors...

Very excited to announce that I have a new website in the works and will be expanding my coverage area soon. Check back for updates. And please feel free to leave a comment I would love to hear from you. I'm always up for meeting new friends. :-)
Have been noticing visitors from all over the states and the world, thanks for stopping by. I even had someone check out the blog from Ulaanbaatar. That rocks! You can't get much more international than Mongolia. I hear they have a wicked camel race over there. Hope to get there sometime and check it out. Never did understand the whole outer vs. inner Mongolia thing, oh well.

An Honor & A Privilege...

So a week and a half ago my phone rang it was a (212) area code. I recognized it as being an area code that I should know but yet could not place why. The caller introduced himself as a representative of a national photo agency located in New York City. He was inquiring as to whether I was available to photograph an important event in Sioux Falls. He was looking at my website and said that he liked my work and that my style fit the clients needs. Ok, so he totally had me at "National Photo Agency". The client turns out to be a PR group representing the Tour for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.


These beams will be part of the museum & memorial when it's built at ground zero.


The local police and fire dept were well represented and were destinquished guests...

Capturing an image of her signature...

Photo opp...

This boy was viewing images of the chaos on 911. His quiet thoughtful gaze reminded me of how each person is effected by the events of that day. Young and old...

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10.13.07 Erica & Brian

It was a busy Saturday. Erica & Brian drove all the way from St. Cloud, Mn and we had some fun with there session. These two seem to be totally intoxicated with one another, I've nevers seen such big smiles. :-) On a side note Erica, Lexie & Shannon are all cousins. What are the odds of having so many beautiful girls in the family. I'm so excited for they're wedding!!

"Smile Big!!!"

10.13.07 Lexie

Had a wonderful time yesterday photographing Lexie for here senior portraits. I had met her mom at Shannon & Nicks wedding. They travelled all the way from Marshall, Mn to meet with me. What a sweet girl! Lexie is as cute as a bug so it was no trouble getting beautiful pictures of her. Thanks for coming all that way guys, hope you like them. -David

I love cloudy bright days!!

Philosophy...

Came across this quote that really sums up my feeling about the use of photography to express and communicate. "Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that it is just a trick." -Christopher Anderson Magnum photographer



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Highly recomended...

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The performance line is amazing....
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Randomness...

So I couldn't get more random than the juice. Ended up in bizarre small talk with O.J. at the Kentucky Derby a couple of years ago. Kind of an interesting life experience.


O.J. Simpson circa 2005... No I didn't ask him!!!

O.J. Simpson

Hot Wheels...

I know this is kind of silly but I just like this image...

Who ever thought of the name "Dart" let alone "Swinger" oh well.

True image...

Ok so this isn't a really new image. It's one I took of my friends Megan & Steve's little boy named Truman a little over a year ago. But what you'll notice is that I've finally figured out how to host larger images on my blog. Yeah! I love tinkering and learning new stuff.



This guy is what the statement "what a cute baby" was invented for.

Insomnia...

Had a little trouble sleeping last night. So I added some new elements to the blog. Please let me know what you think. My taste in music is a bit diverse, "if you don't dig it just pause it". You can now sign-up to have an email sent when ever I post. Or you can sign-up for a feed. And I've gone back and labelled my posts to make it easier to find what your looking for. Thank you for stopping by to look around. Please check back often. I'll try to get more consistent on adding new posts. -D