Yesterday was 28 days behind. Today is actually 29 days behind, but 28 Days Later is the movie reference… So I decided on that for the subject line.

Wakka wakka wakka!

No more Photoshopping each shot I post. I need to make this process a bit quicker, or I really won’t be able to keep up.

Here we go.

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Cory & Addisyn

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Boring shot, but crucial. I cleaned my sensor that day.

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Brad & Carley

Love the intense look in Carley’s eyes. That wedding was spectacular. It was one of the rare weddings that had me choking up.

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Todd & Kristi

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I was very sick that week (bad timing with 4 weddings) and Sprite helps me.

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Dustin & Carrie

Yummy

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Very late night of printing, eating and blowing my nose.

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My new front room. This is where I meet my clients.

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Discovering that sticking your hand in a sprinkler’s path is awesome fun

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I was coming back home from taking the boys out to a playground and I looked up and saw this. I thought “Cool, I get to watch a collision!”

Well, that or a bizarre American Airlines airshow.

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Out playing in the backyard, I had my camera in hand and we decided to see how high I could kick the ball in the air. This was as high as I could get it.

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And this is a great shot of my oldest, Gabe.

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A play I went to see, starring Alisha; model, actress, singer, dancer, close friend and all around endlessly talented person.

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The amazingly beautiful Amela.

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I just had to make the time for some guitar playing. Before that night, I hadn’t picked up my guitar in close to a month…

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The continuation of a series of hardware issues… This is the night my power supply decided to start dying on me. I might have opened up the computer to take a picture of it, but I was too angry to bother taking a proper shot.

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Only in a house with kids will you find a guy in a yellow jumpsuit lying face down in a bathroom with one hand in the air.

That or a frathouse.

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Another night of hardware frustration. That’s a $20 ink cartridge down the toilet.

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Cubase!!! Now I can create some music! I should have gotten this right from the start.

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What’s for dinner? Pot-Pourri. That’s what.

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Freddy & Trisha

Incorporating my abstract, “colors and shapes” thoughts at a wedding.

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The Path to the Sun

A beautiful field near my house.

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Out with the old, in with the new. A continuation from the Cubase thing. I was sick and tired of fighting with my MBox audio interface, trying to get it to work at all on ANYTHING. Screw it, got a new one instead.

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Homemade pop-filter. Pop filters are designed to keep audio from being distorted, especially with vocals, where the performer has to say a word with a “P” or a “B” in it.

This was made with a coat-hanger and tights. Cost me zero dollars, versus paying $20 at a store where they would have pushed a 100-year warranty for what they’d insist is a reasonable $39.95.

No thanks.

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I have to admit, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the weather of late. Rain is good in a desert as far as I’m concerned.

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And my son Mason trying to dodge the camera.

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Looking out my dirty window into the blinding sunset.

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Coming up is wedding, wedding, book, book, wedding, fence, book and the daily stuff I’ll have done by the time I post again.

Ok not really… I designed a book over at Blurb that I wanted to print and keep for myself. I’d been meaning to do this for quite some time, but just never got around to doing it. Finally, a few nights ago I decided to start, and once I did, I couldn’t get myself to stop until I was done. So I was up until about 2am, two nights in a row, obsessively working on it until it was complete.

I was never really planning on sharing it with anyone. I just wanted to put together a book with my work in it…

Weird, I know.

But then I finished it and it felt like such a powerful and intimate visual diary of my experiences and my growth as a photographer and a person that I decided I had to tell everyone.

I’m anxious to get it!

Meantime, I’m almost, if not over a month behind on the photo blogging… I’m still taking shots daily, but I’ve been supidly busy lately… I’m getting to it all still, so hang in there.

Oh and I still see some traffic to the blog, so I appreciate those of you still keeping an eye out for me! I’ll be blogging again soon.

One last thing. For those who haven’t noticed, I now have a “know me” section on the website. This will take you to my Facebook, Flickr and Twitter accounts if you feel like getting to know me a little.

I hope to see some of you there!

I can’t believe how long it’s been… Sorry about that. Been busy and sick.

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Nate & Shawna wedding:

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Jayme Giordano:

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That was technically taken on day 120, because I went to bed late, then realized at 1am that I’d forgotten to take a shot that day. So I got out of the comfy bed to take a picture of something, anything. That effort is enough to make up for having been forgetful that one day, right? Cool, thanks.

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When I was settling into my newly finished basement some years ago, there was a wall I didn’t quite know what to do with. I finally decided to throw up all the work I was proud enough of in a 4×6 format and arrange them kind of randomly. Like a collage of sorts. I don’t think I’m that good, far from it, but it’s been interesting to see my own progression over time.

The wall is expanding to another wall in the basement, but I’m going to be putting up a collage of photography I actually admire; stuff I’ve ripped out of Vogues and such.

Anyway, this was taken during a big update of my work, hence all the empty space:

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Colin & Emily wedding:

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My new, external, 1TB (terrabyte) drive. I plan on going through these about once a year. Faster as I get more work, but I was really starting to struggle when, in order to download the day’s shots, I had to move things around to different drives, desperately hunting down every last megabyte, or backing everything up on tiny DVD-Rs.

A hard drive is cheaper and faster. I have no idea why I didn’t do this sooner.

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Todd & Kristi “groomials”:

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Mark & Trina wedding:

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New kitchen table. Needed a new one, finally broke down and got one.

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Jennifer, a dancer for a group called The Sugar Babies located here in SLC:

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Family photos:

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I should explain though. That first shot is of dad and his girls.

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I won the iPod touch last year, but I bought this sound dock for it… Guess I negated the free iPod…

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You can’t see it from this picture, but the piano is dusty… I really wanted to learn to play. There’s just no time. My poor guitars are collecting dust too.

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Speaking of my guitars collecting dust:

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My TV’s front panel:

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I wanted to do something that was unrecognizable, but just colors and shapes.

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Mason wasn’t the birthday boy that day, but he wore a party-hat anyway.

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Gabe, my oldest:

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I had 4 weddings the week after that, so the next post might take a while to arrive. Hang tight.

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