I know it’s been a while since I’ve written a good post. I don’t know if this is going to be one, but at least it will be longer than two sentences and a link. I do apologize for the drought of posts lately but work has been intense and now that we have our big project time and I have some room to breath the post will be more plentiful.

It's been an interesting day, week, whatever it has been. I stayed home today because I was under the weather.  Speaking of the weather it's been raining since yesterday evening almost not stop. Which leads into the weather related story of the day.  I got a call about noon from my brother K, to let me know that brother J had been in a multi-car accident. He's banged up, bruised sore and lacerated however he is wholly intact which is great. His poor truck that has moved me five times and countless others is not terribly intact. Anyhow apparently in a typical Californian driver type move, someone doing 80 in the fast lane in the poor rain and the rest writes itself. Back to the truck, the motor mounts broke, causing the transmission mounts to break and it dropped the drive-shaft. So in layman terms it’s broke. However I am just glad my Brother is okay!

In rain related news, as some of you may already know I am shooting my first wedding for a friend from the train this weekend. I am completely nervous and of course it looks like there is a chance that it is going to rain. Well it is suppose to be an outdoor wedding at 5pm, so of course I am worried about the light, however if it rains, I’ll have to take all of the formals inside. Which isn’t a bad thing it is just different! Like I said I’ve been nervous as I usually don’t photograph people and photographing a wedding is an art itself. So I’ve been reading books and some good forums. I’ve been practicing a lot lately and man is my family sick of seeing the flash go over behind them. In fact that Little Boy has taken to hiding when he sees me with the camera in my hand. I’ve been also checking out some sites that help keep some of the cost down. Photography can be a very expensive proposition, well being of modest means I like trying to make some of the tools myself. So I’ve been reading DIYPhotography.net to get ideas of how to build some of the lighting rigs I want but can’t afford to buy.

In other news, My Beautiful Wife and I have just passed a milestone. We celebrated our five year Wedding Anniversary last month. We took some time just for us, took a weekend went to the mountains to a cute little town to celebrate us. In all truthfulness it is just amazingly easy to be married to her. She is my best friend and I can always be myself with her. Five years has gone by so fast, I so look forward to the next five years.