My Life

Glacier Part II

More photos; less words.

Glacier Part I

This is a long time coming but its summer and we’ve been doing stuff. Check Melynda’s blog for words.
Here’s the first 27 pics. click on them for larger versions.

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Fathers' Day with Dad

Finally got to go shoot some photos with my dad. For Fathers’ day we went to a wetland near Bozeman and played with cameras before going out to dinner. Had a great time. My dad’s photos turned out better but here are a few of the decent ones I took.

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June

We saw some tanagers hanging out by the feeder. Then my parents stopped by on their way home from seeing wild horses in the Pryor Mountains.

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Anders love me, this I know.

Bedtime Conversation tonight:
Me: Can I tell you something?
Anders: Yeah.
Me: I love you bud.
Anders: Can I tell you something?
Me: Yeah.
Anders: I want some water.

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Stock footage sale

Last month (or so) I’ve been experimenting with selling stock footage on “microstock” sites. These are companies that sell lower production value footage for lower rates. Generally the footage is from cameras of lesser quality than the broadcasters use. A lot of it is in Standard def and a lot of it is pretty crappy but some of it is pretty good. Hence most of the clips on the sites don’t get sold, but some of the better clips get hundreds of downloads. My idea is that in any future spare time, I’ll be able to go out and grab general stock clips and upload them to these sites and forget about them with the idea that eventually I’ll have enough clips up that even small sales will add up. And if they sell, great, but if they don’t, I’ve gotten good practice with my camera. I have only put up about twenty clips on two sites iStock which is still waiting to approve most of my clips and Pond5 which has already approved my clips but doesn’t have the market reach and share that iStock does.

Well, yesterday, out of the blue, I got an email saying I’d made my first sale on Pond5. Whooohooo! Its not enough to even go out to dinner on, but I’ll take it. I must say, I’m surprised at the clip that sold. Its certainly not the best clip I put up, but I guess that will be part of the learning curve.

Anyway, it only takes little things to improve a day and given the estimate from our mechanic, the day could use it.

Happy spring!

Hoar Frost Pan 01

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Maryland Trip

As you may know, we got to spend a week in Maryland with my Parents and (just) one day with my Sister and family. Here are a few select shots. For the full selection go to the Photoblog tab at the top. Just click on the image for a larger version.

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Ideas for my Birthday

I pretty much have everything I want except my MFA Degree and a Klaus Cam so if you are looking around for ideas for my birthday, I’d very much like one of these :
KlausCam me please.

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