– Back from vacation — still posting images over here from The Roadtrip. Please pop over and comment on the posts — for every 25 comments left on the blog or the RSS feeds posting to my personal Facebook account (you can leave up to one per post!), I am donating $25 to pre-designated charity. I’ve had a LOT of hits, and several emails and verbal comments, but the emails and verbal comments don’t count towards the Comments for Charity promo — only those left on the blog or Facebook RSS feeds. Right now, the posts — from the evening of June 12 (titled ‘wheat … and more wheat’) through The Bus Tour – Part 2 have a combined total of less than 30 comments (there are a number of comments at Facebook I need to log in and count up). In comparison, the website visits/hits are about 4-5 times that in that same time period. Add in that I’ve emailed in early June (before I left) and on June 30th to almost everyone in my personal and business address books to stop by and leave a comment, all it would take is each one of them leaving a single comment to hit the 150 comment goal — emails aren’t published if that’s the worry! I’m truly saddened that people will take the time to allow the entries to load, but not take an extra minute or less to leave a comment that will benefit several charities as well as a random commentor who’ll receive an 11×14 mounted print for a minute of their time. I posted the deadline as July 3rd, but seeing as I’m behind on posting the trip images, I’m planning to extended it another week.
So … please stop by — as this site gets a number of hits as well — and help me help these charities I am passionate about (the money is coming directly out of my day job paycheck every other week (when I’m paid) until I reach the comment total – more than I typically donate at a time to these charities (normally I donate a lesser amount on a periodic basis throughout the year). And those of you who already have, thank you — its very much appreciated.
– While on the roadtrip, I was able to cross off several items (or parts of) on my 101 in 1001 days list. As soon as all the images are online and I have time to write up a post about each one here, I’ll post it on both sites.
– Also, over at my business website, I’m holding a July special to raise money for the three year old son of one of my friend’s coworkers who was diagnosed with neuroblastoma (they live in Denver). Even if you’re not in East Texas — but know someone who is that has been thinking about a portrait session, send them over to A Fundraiser for Cullen. And if you’re interested in helping, contact me with your info and I’ll pass it on to April (my friend who is spearheading the effort) and she’ll contact you with further details. Meanwhile, I’m sure both Cullen and his family would appreciate all the prayers and positive thoughts for a successful recovery that could be sent their way (comments can be left on their journal and guestbook located here).
– I also am posting twitter updates for the business here. I have a personal twitter account that is private; if you’re a friend of mine or a fellow photographer and aren’t following me, let me know and I’ll pass on the url.
– 5 foot 4 Productions, my commercial, travel, and fine art photography, has just undergone a website overhaul and a slight move (out from the sub-directory). As soon as I wrap up the trip edits, I will be launching a gallery of travel and fine art photography prints for purchase, as well as at least one postcard set (possibly two or three).
– My trip up north reaffirmed one of my addictions: huckleberry. So — if you come across the hard candies, gummy bears, pie filling, soap, lotion, and whatnot that can be easily shipped to the Lone Star State, I’ll give you my mailing address to route it to 
I’m sure we have something here I can trade; if not, want a fine art photographic print?
– I forgot what else I was gonna say. Problem with not being able to type as fast as I think. Do they have a program out yet that I can think it out what I want to write and it types it up? It was bad enough that the voice one couldn’t keep up with me when I gave it a trial run years ago … what good is technology if I can’t maximize it to the fullest, huh?
Okay, back to being productive — images to come at the biz blog soon.
Shame, he’s such a hansome fellow. I realize this isn’t as spectacular of an image of him as it could be, but I was shooting through a gate from 15 feet away at 75 mm.
vay – cay – shun
From this Friday (June 12th) until Sunday, June 28th, I’ll be traveling around the United States of America and a bit of Canada. Since I have two blogs and won’t have enough time to post to both every evening (when I have internet access), I’ll be posting as I’m able to on my business blog instead. Please jump over there for the interim (or longer!) and comment daily! For every 25 comments I receive, I’ll make a $25 donation to a pre-designated charity as well as two giveaways (via the business blog and via my business twitter account) — more information about both giveaways and the comments for charity will be posted on that blog tomorrow/Friday in the pre-dawn hours!
Btw, I have two things on the 101 in 1001 list I’ve knocked out recently and will be knocking out several more during my trip. Will post about them all in July!
Have a great rest of June!!