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mini-me

Yaarrrrrrr! I was amidst posting a lengthy entry last night before bed and my Vista system threw up the Blue Screen of Death. I was too tired to continue and quite frankly, I don’t really remember what I was getting at anyway.

The holidays are over and merely 10 days into the new year, the shock of 2007’s rapid disappearance still lingers. I enjoyed being visiting my mom for the New Year’s Eve event. We were all out in the country where the nights are lit with hundreds of thousands of stars invisible to city eyes. Bob made a huge bonfire and we roasted marshmellows and hotdogs. There were no loud bars and congestion of cars… just the wind. I didn’t actually stay up for “the ball drop”. Back at work, the new year is always challenging. Up until the leap I took three years ago, I had no immediate concept of quota assignments and territories. Each new year starts the same… prospecting and qualifying with hopes that the end of the year has brought enough successful sales cycles to meet your commitment. Rinse and repeat. Outside of work, I’ve been laying low… spending time with friends, playing games, etc. I submitted the request for my “new format” FAA license and should receive that in the next week or two. I’ve been researching a book I’m working on with a good friend of mine and neighbor, Bob Nuelle. He is an amateur entomologist of sorts and we’ve started the selection process for a coffeetable style pictorial with factoid insets. The idea is to photograph the specimens at very high magnification… atypical for bug books. This sort of photography is somewhat technical due to the effective depth of field at this magnification. I’ve worked through some of those challenges but I’m still not happy with the resulting images. I’ll practice more as time allows and hopefully we’ll have the kinks worked out by spring and I can shoot the spreads by the end of summer. Here are a couple of test shots from the other day:

I’m off to work downtown. Have a good day.