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Santa is coming soon and won't miss our street.  Most everyone has their traditional Candy Cane out and homes covered in twinkling lights.  Just hope Santa brings something good!

Candy Cane Lane

I sold another picture, this time to JEMS - Journal of EMS.  It's only a small picture to be used on their Table of Contents for their January 2010 issue.  The picture is of the paramedic's "drug box". 

To see the Google proof page, click here:  https://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.1&thid=125761196f2fa6ce&mt=application%2fpdf&url=https%3a%2f%2fmail.google.com%2fmail%2f%3fui%3d2%26ik%3daeddb8eb2d%26view%3datt%26th%3d125761196f2fa6ce%26attid%3d0.1%26disp%3dattd%26realattid%3d0.1%26zw&sig=ahietbsli9ztsqd38m2sqwemy4cnh_21ja

Drug Box

Bad news is that a co-worker and I were involved in a car accident today.  Good news is that no one was hurt, it was not my car and we were hit by the State of Louisiana DOT.  (funny my back now hurts)  I need some reparation.

This proves that cell phone, texting and not paying attention while driving causes accidents.  The guy who hit us was not paying attention, locked up his brakes, and smashed into our left rear quarter panel.  No one got hurt, the cops sorted everything out and we were back on the road in about 40 minutes.

Be careful out there..........

Check the skid mark!

Maybe the world is going to end becuase it's now snowing in Houston.  In a week or so, I'll be cutting the grass for the last time in 2009.  I'll be wearing shorts and a T'shirt too.  Very weird weather, those in the North need to keep that cold weather up North where it belongs.

We survived another trip to West Texas and Big Bend National Park.  We had no major breakdowns, issues, illegal boarder crossings and no pixels were harmed during our shoot.  As usual we practiced with our strobes, off-camera flash and even messed around with sync speeds of 1/1,250 sec. using Alien Bees triggers on a Canon G10 - Hot.
Like always, go here for the rest of the images:  Big Bend 2009

Kathy's Kosmic Kowgirl Kafe

Lighting JM Style

Chisos Mountains

Here are some teaser shots for you!  I will post the rest after our return.  The only thing we could ask for are some clouds.  We've had nothing but clear blue sky, some clouds would a make for more dramatic pictures.

In the Ghost Town

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Where is Marfa?   Marfa is a place that rocks, great for the Arts.  Even better for lunch, only if you eat at the FOOD SHARK.  We had the Marfalafel - Awesome.  They were so good that Vu and I almost split another one. 

Food Shark - Marfa, TX

Most folks ask me, "where is Big Bend?"  Here is the answer and that's where we are now.  Images will be posted when I return.

Big Bend-1

I need more computing power so Vu helped me pick out the latest and greatest equipment and tonight we assembled - "The Beast"  We are waiting on software, Windows 7 Ultimate and Office 2007, it arrives this Monday.  The Beast has a hot Asus P7P55D EVO Motherboard, Intel Quad-Core i7, 2.80 GHz Processor, 8GB RAM, 320GB hard drive for the operating system and two 1.5 TB hard drives in a RAID 1 configuration for my data, and all goes into a Sonata III 500.  Of course it has WLAN card for Wi-Fi, Dedicated Video Card, DVD burner, etc.

This thing should be smokin' fast with enough horsepower to handle all my photo editing - Hot.  I took some snap shots as we put everything together.

The Beast

Deb ran a 1/2 marathon in San Antonio this past weekend.  I was there for photographs and moral support.

Some of the Crazies

Deb at mile 8