PoD Photography Blog

This being inauguration day in our country I thought I would post some of the images I took in Washington DC a couple of years ago.

While the kids were home for the Thanksgiving weekend we came up with an idea for our annual Christmas Card. They were very coorperative in helping get it done quickly. That along with a little Photoshop work and we have the 2008 version of our family Christmas Card.

We hope for you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

On a recent trip to visit my daughter at Hardin Simmons in Abilene, I got up early Sunday morning, before sunrise, to go wind turbine ‘image hunting’. I didn’t get many images that I thought were very interesting on the trip itself. I was on my way back when I saw this abandoned ranch house. I thought it was appropriate how this old ranch house, a part of the past from West Texas, was positioned just below the horizon of the future of energy development for West Texas. This was near Trent, Texas.

We were fortunate to be able together as a family over the 4th. Diane and I with our four children, my brother and his son, met at my dad’s lake house on Cedar Creek Lake in East Texas. We love to gather at my dad’s place. Skiing, swimming, boat riding, water volleyball, 42 tournaments and just overall a relaxing time. I took a lot of work with me, so when the kids were off I could work on a few wedding albums I need to finish. Even on get-away weekends I don’t leave my work behind. You never know when inspiration will hit. It was a quiet weekend but very nice to see everyone again.

When I go to East Texas, I aways threaten to go out into some of the small towns around the lake to photograph cool things I might find. But laziness and time usually gets away from me and I don’t do it. Well this time I decided that I would get up at sunrise, while everyone else, except my dad and brother, are still asleep and go find some things to photograph on a little self assigned photo safari. I made my way into a rather large ’small’ town of Athens. Flags were up everywhere on the town square and not a soul was moving. There was a lot there but nothing inspired me. I decided to go North of town and on my way saw this really neat building. It was The Image Warehouse at 103 East Larkin Street. The sign with the address was captivating. Here is one of my favorites. I will post more information on this building with more images on another post.

One of my faults is I have a tenacity to over-think things. I started this blog in April 2008. I thought that I should come up with a wonderful idea or concept for the blog. But other than a few test entries, it sat idle. I have not come up with the genius idea. But I am going to start off with no grand scheme of things. I am just going to write. I may decide to post some of my personal images along the way. But I am not sure how that will work. I am just going to do something. Usually the ideas come as I start a project. So my blog may not contain this earth shattering idea but it IS going to start.

I am reworking all of my advertising and marketing materials this summer. I have not done this in years and my marketing is looking a little dated. My website needs updating. I ran out of business cards a few weeks back. A lot needs to be done. Tonight I thought I would pound out a business card. It could not have been harder. I was here and there and everywhere. My concept was that I wanted the business card to be clean, spacious and contain only the basics. I did not want to cram it with a hundred things. Just name, rank, and serial number, if you will. So after three hours this is what I have come up with for now. I am sure it will change as I move on to my website and other marketing things.

This entry is submitted to test my new blog on my own website.

This is the second post.

It appears on blog A only but in multiple categories.