Morning Light...

Morning is a reminder of the continual renewal of a new day. Today is a new day...

Tea for Three...

Last Saturday I met with Shannon, her mother, and her grandmother. They were in town to do a little shopping and enjoy each others company. Shannon had scheduled this time to photograph the three of them several months ago. She wanted to have some keepsake images of her grandmother. As you may remember I shot Shannon's wedding last year and she is also the jewelry artist behind Almost October as well as being a new friend.

It was fun to find a good place to do the shoot. This time of year in the Midwest it isn't as if I can stage a shoot outside. I decided to go to a restaurant here in Sioux Falls. The owner Doug treated us all to a nice corner spot with a couch and chair. It was perfect. The dessert menu was awesome. I had a piece of chocolate cake with a French raspberry liquor sauce.

Some Date....

Ok, so we all know that dating can be brutal. That's why I don't do a ton of it, or at least that's one of my many excuses. Tonight I was at dinner and as often happens when your dining alone I started to overhear parts of the conversation from the next booth down. Ok, it was impossible to not overhear it. This poor fellow was on a first date with a women that I have to assume he met online judging from how the conversation was coming together. It started out with the usual salutations of online daters. You know, "wow your taller than you look in your picture" and the like. Then some small talk about family and so on.

So you may be wondering what made this date interesting enough to write about. This fellow apparently was nervously making jokes and his date was nervously "Cackling". No really it was the worst sound I've ever heard. The type of laugh that could clear a room, it would make Woody Woodpecker stare in silent disbelief. Then she decided to make nervous jokes too, only hers were more like a cross between the in your face style of Don Rickles & the innuendo of one of those redneck style comedians. When she started making cackling jokes about the fact that he had never been into a 'Victoria's Secret" or a "Fredrick's of Hollywood" I could tell he was ready to fake a stroke or just bolt for the door.

So about the time I was ready to ask for a table somewhere far away from the cackler a table of ten was just starting to get loose in the bar area. Who would have thought there could be three obnoxious cacklers in one restaurant. It was a trio in surround sound. Isn't the fire code enforced "Max occupancy 250 diners & 1 cackler". It was unbearable. Apparently it was all a little too much for this guy he suddenly came down with all the symptoms of Rubella or Bird Flu or something and felt he really should skip desert and get going.

Now we know that there is someone out there for everyone of us if we're patient. So if your reading this Nervous Stuttering guy & Cackling gal don't give up. Oh and if it happens to work out I would be happy to photograph your wedding. :-)

Bright Eyes...

Hello everyone. Boy it's been a while since I posted anything, Sorry. Just been really busy. Since I'm slacking here in the off season I thought I'd post this family session from last fall. And I've got some other stuff to post later this weekend as well. This is the Clemen family and they're such awesome people. I met them at church a year or two ago. I really enjoyed the kids. They are all so polite and happy. It was very cool.

Guess I better say happy birthday to my Brother & Dad too. Love you guys...