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February 10th, 2008 @ 7.19 pm

First, I must say I’m sorry. I’ve been meaning to write something for a month now, and almost have, but haven’t. This month has been rather busy but rather mundane all at the same time. I’ve been out to Indy to begin the startup of the machine I’ve been the project manager for the past year on, so that was exciting. I also went to Philadelphia and Cincinnati on jobs. Watched that big game (with a trademarked name), and finally washed and waxed the truck.

I have been keeping up with the Photo-A-Day project I’ve been doing, although a bunch of the pictures are results of “it’s 10pm, I haven’t taken a picture yet, what is nearby?” I knew there’d be many of those, and I’m trying to not repeat the same subject, but it’s not easy… especially with how many nights I spend in hotels. If you’re thinking “why doesn’t Jeremy go outside the hotel and find something fun?” I’ll say that after getting off work, getting some dinner and catching up on all the emails for work that I missed, it’s often rather late and I’d be going out in the dark just to take a picture of who knows what. Hopefully spring will bring more daylight, warmer air, and better pictures.

January 9th, 2008 @ 8.53 pm

Previously I brought up the idea of doing a photo-a-day project, but wasn’t completely sold on the idea. With all the new toys Beverly bought me for Christmas, and the new point and shoot camera I got her, I’m going for it. I am going to try and take at least one picture every single day in 2008 and post it in in the gallery. I won’t post the pictures every day (especially when I’m on business trips and can’t edit then), but I will try to get them up at least once or twice every week. Also, I am going to try and take pictures of things relevant to what I’m doing that day if possible, and I promise there won’t be many pictures of Beverly (because that would be too easy for me). Let’s see if I can do it!

December 30th, 2007 @ 8.04 pm

This year Beverly and I spent our first Christmas together as a married couple (say “awww, how cute…”). I really didn’t want much, but she knew just what to get me. Not only did she get me a 50mm f1/8 lens for my camera, she also got me a flash and a new car! I took the photo of the car using the new camera equipment, just because I can. On Christmas day we spent some time here at the condo, and then late in the morning headed down to Anne Arundel County to see my family at my grandfathers, and then to see Beverly’s family and friends in Arnold.

Before Christmas day we saw Beverly’s extended family. First, it was the Kremann’s on the 16th, and then the Yu’s in North Carolina over the 22nd - 23rd. It was a long drive, but it was nice to see everyone in one place and to see the Zeisemer’s house finally. If you’re reading this and wondering when you can see the pictures I took while in North Carolina, you’ll have to wait a bit longer. I want to put the full size pictures up so the family can download them easily, but I currently am having web host issues preventing me from FTP’ing into my own account, and they haven’t been responding to my phone messages or emails.

As the new year approaches, Beverly and I aren’t 100% sure what we’re going to do for New Years, but we’ll have some fun, and we’ll see what 2008 brings.

December 16th, 2007 @ 8.45 pm

Previously the wedding pictures could be seen on a SmugMug.com set of galleries, but due to some technical problems a whole new website has been set up to view the pictures from the wedding. They can all be found at http://davidhartcorn.com/darkroom/proof/?client/beverlyjeremy. The pictures were taken by David Hartcorn and his assistants.

For ordering copies of pictures, you should ask Beverly or Jeremy - they will have full size digital copies of everything. The ordering portion of the website does work, but if you try to order through the website, you will see all prices are set to $0.01.

December 4th, 2007 @ 8.33 pm

For the past year or two I’ve been following one guy’s Photo-a-Day postings on a photography website, Pbase.com. He seems to be a young photographer trying to make a living with photography, and he’s also into VW’s some, although he’s more into the watercooled ones. What I’ve seen through his postings is how one is forced to examine the world around them a little bit every single day. It also forces the photographer to stretch their skills and come up with a new photo every single day. If you want to see his photo-a-day, it can be found at www.pbase.com/602crew/photo_a_day_3.

Why am I telling you about this? I’ve been toying with the idea of doing it myself for a year, maybe more. So much has changed in my life (and even more in Beverly’s) this past year, and yet I think I’ve taken fewer photos than in 2006. Sure, I want to enjoy life as it happens and not just relive what I saw through a viewfinder, but I also want to have pictures of my life, and stretch myself to become a better photographer. What do you think? Go ahead and leave a comment - should I undertake this challenge?

December 2nd, 2007 @ 9.46 pm

Yesterday (Saturday) we went with most of the other families in our Bible study to a Christmas tree farm a bit west of where we live and sawed down some Christmas trees. There was a mistake in the shaking/ wrapping up the trees that resulted in the Sroka’s not getting a tree - it seems someone else took theirs in the shuffle of trees, but other than that incident we all got some nice trees. Afterward we invited everyone back to our place and had some tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches while Navy was beating Army to a crushing win.

Today we got the tree inside and set up with a stand borrowed from the Kremann household, and we got some lights and a star at Target. And of course we then put them on. Traditionally in my family’s house we used colored lights, but we decided to get white lights this year. I guess I just didn’t want to follow the tradition that I’ve always done. Hopefully my mom will still accept me as I am.