Day 4 - People Pictures

Chances are you have heard me say that I am not a big fan of taking pictures of people. I am not sure why I have never really gotten into "people pictures". It might have something to do with not having a readily availbale victim.

The couple times that I have taken people pictures my sister has been my willing victim. Considering it is not my favorite tpye of photos to take, they can be kinda fun. These photos were taken when Amy (my sister) came back to Bloomington from California to go to Homecoming with her boyfriend Mike. I was pretty pleased with how these photos turned out.

Day 3 - The Start of an Obsession

Day 3 of NaBloPoMo. I think Dave may have been right, I am not sure I can post once a day for a month. I just do not have that much going on in my life that other people would want to read about, and since I have been instructed to include more words on the blog just adding pictures might not quiet the critics. Since nothing new is happening how about a story from the past that I talked about a year ago in my first entry.

I had never really had any interest in photography until I started High School and had to take an elective. One of the possible classes was Black & White Photography. It sounded a lot better then most of the other electives. I ended up really enjoying the class. We were first taught how to develop film and then taught how to print the photos. I did not have a camera of my own yet so I borrowed my Mom's 35mm camera which was already rather old and outdated. The teacher gave us all of the assignments at the beginning of the class and would give you more film when ever you needed some. I ended up finishing all of the assignments within a few weeks and then was just printing pictures for fun and helping other people in the darkroom. I really had a lot of fun helping out my classmates and now that I think back on it this may have been the first time that I ever really thought about becoming a teacher (as you know I did not, another story for later maybe). I really had a lot of fun with the class, unfortunately I never got to take the advanced photo class that was offered. A few years ago I looked back at the photos that I took and developed in this class. I quickly realized how bad they really were, at the time I thought they were good and I remember getting a pretty good grade in the class. I sure would like to think that the photos have gotten better since then! I still have all of those pictures in an album, I may have to take some time to scan them on a day off just to prove that practice does make better (I would not call my photos perfect by any stretch of the imagination).

Day 2 - Getting Started

Well it is day 2 of NaBloPoMo, I have accepted Dave's challenge to post something to the blog once everyday for a month. And while it has only been a couple hours since the first post in the challenge it is a new day and that means another post.

Today I have decided to go with a photo of Saint Anthony Falls in downtown Minneapolis.

Dave, I will try to come up with a text heavy post sometime soon.

Day 1 - A Challenge

Well, Dave is at it again. He has now challenged me to participate in "NaBloPoMo" or National Blog Posting Month. The idea is that you make a blog entry everyday for the entire month of November. Dave does not seem to be to pleased with the frequency of my post's so I will show him. Starting today (Thursday, November 1, 2007) I will post something everyday this month to the blog. I am not saying I will write long diatribes each day but there will be something new here everyday! Since Dave does not think I will complete this task I will challenge him to participate and see at least who lasts longer! Good luck my friend.

p.s. Krystal and Bill feel free to participate too!

I have been hijacked again!

Lets have fun with this hijacking....

Leave a comment describing how you feel about the frequency of updates on this blog....

Since Jeff probably won't read his own blog because of the infrequent updates, this post might be up here for a while "undectected!"

HAHAHAHA

Fall

Fall has been my favorite season since graduating High School. I am sure if it had not been for school I would have always enjoyed it most. The weather is perfect - not too hot, not too cold - and usually it is a great time of year to take photos.

This year I had a stretch of seven days off in the middle of October, I was really hoping to hit peak time for leaves to be changing around the Twin Cities. I was pretty close to the right time, only it rained for six of my seven days off (the down side to Fall). Unfortunately I was not able to get out for leaf pictures this year but was still in the mood. Here are some pictures I took in 2005.

State of the Blog

It is now time for the first annual State of the Blog Address (not as intriguing as the President's State of the Union Address, but hopefully just as fun!).

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Loyal Readers,

I come to you today to report on the State of the Blog. It is hard to believe that it has already been one year since the start of the blog. To be honest I kind of figured I would post a couple times and then forget about it. While the posts have not been the most frequent it has become more than I thought it would.

I have completed 33 posts including abut 110 photos. The blog has had over 1,000 page visits with nearly 2,000 page views. The blog has featured everything from my desperate attempt at painting to 15 photo contests. This would be a good time to congratulate the contest King, The King of Clubs. I am saddened to report though that the blog does have a 3% crime rate as we experienced a earlier Hijacking this year, I plan to fight crime harder this year (read: don't let Dave "fix" my template for me!).

Overall citizens of blogland I am pleased to report that the State of the Blog is good! I hope with more writing by me and more reading by you we can continue to progress forward in the great land we call the Internet.

Thank you for your time.
Jeff

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We can now return to regularly scheduled blog updates (read: not regularly updated)