This Week

April 18, 2009 by jeff

This week I:

  • Decided to start my own photography business
  • Registered www.jeffdaytonphotography.com
  • Bought the template and set up the basic site via GoDaddy!
  • Worked on my portfolio
  • Signed up for some more photography classes
  • Joined the Y and did 5 hours of cardio
  • Finished and submitted my taxes
  • Started using a CPAP machine and am feeling FANTASTIC (the mask pictured is the one I have)
  • Started doing Abs again
  • Am suddenly tired after realizing all I have done this week

For the rest of the weekend I need to:

  • Mow the lawn and clean up the debris despite the dampness so we don’t get charged for not mowing our lawn
  • Work on my portfolio
  • Work on www.jeffdaytonphotography.com
  • Rest my knees from above-mentioned work!
  • Write an outline for a class I’m teaching Monday morning
  • Enjoy Skip and the dogs tomorrow

Andy Hallett

March 31, 2009 by jeff

My favorite actor from Angel, Andy Hallett, recently died of heart failure at 33 years of age. He played a gay(?) alien that helped out Angel’s team where he could and had a fantastic voice. A win American Idol hands-down kind of voice. I’m sad he’s gone and I’m sad he didn’t get more recognition for the beautiful voice he had.

Rain Forest in Guatamala

March 29, 2009 by jeff

We were allowed to swim here on a recent cruise that went to Guatamala. It’s a very slippery area and the water was extremely cold!

Rain Forest in Guatamala

Watermarks

March 29, 2009 by jeff

You might be wondering why there’s a watermark on the picture called “Blossom’s Ear.” I’m working on my photography skills and hope to become a professional photographer/editor at some point so as I’m building up my portfolio I need to protect my work. I have a friend who had a picture taken of her dog (”Can I take a picture of your dog?”) and now that dog is on t-shirts, cups, etc. That simple “Yes” she gave stripped her of all her rights to the image(s) that the photographer took. So I’m just protecting my work. The point of the watermark is to protect my work, not make you stare at it so it’s very light. I might brighten it just the teeniest bit but hopefully it won’t be too intrusive.

Blossom’s Ear

March 29, 2009 by jeff

You would not believe how many pictures I have of Blossom and Shiloh. Well maybe you would. I’m always looking to see if they do something new or unusual. Some of them I miss because a camera isn’t close enough. This ear off the couch pose was too good to miss and easy to get since you don’t mess with Blossom’s down time.

Blossom's Ear

Colorado Trees

March 26, 2009 by jeff

Here are some trees near our old house in Colorado. As you can tell there was a lot of great snow at the time.

Colorado Trees

Ivy

March 26, 2009 by jeff

Here is some Ivy behind my house.  This picture was taken for a photography class last year.

Ivy Behind My House

Never Ceases to Amaze

February 12, 2009 by jeff

People have said some really stupid things defending Chris Brown over the alligations he beat up Rhianna, but Terrance Howard takes the cake.

His original comment on the incident was “It’s just life, man. Chris is a great guy. He’ll be all right. And Rihanna knows he loves her. She’ll be all right. Just everybody’s got to get out of their way.”

Well that kind of insensitivity didn’t go over well so his “retraction” consists of him saying that he didn’t actually know about the incident he was commenting about when he commented about it.

“When they asked me about Chris Brown the other day, I was in no way aware of what he had been accused of.  Had I known, I would have never had said something so insensitive.”

Unbelievable.

I don’t ask much…

December 30, 2008 by jeff

Please watch the entire video. You’ll be cringing or laughing or both…

Happy Thanksgiving!

November 28, 2008 by jeff

Thanksgiving