My Life Outside of Photography Thoughts and findings that don't always relate to Photography

17Jun/103

Bridgewater for Board games Mike Lee for Senate

So the Utah primary is coming up and I want to give my insight for what it's worth.

When I first listened to the candidates I thought Mike Lee and Bridgewater seemed to be good choices. Mike Lee went on to continue to impress me and Bridgewater has not done anything that has made me feel he'd be the right choice.

The way I see it... Bridgewater would be my choice for a partner on a strategy board game (We'd have fun, be friends and win the board game) and Mike Lee would be my choice for the next senator.

(My ramblings below)

30Mar/090

Recent tweets of interest

I really do post a lot about myself and my life and my thoughts on twitter. Here's a compilation of a few

Recent tweets of interest by Jarvie

 

 

So my new line to customers: "I'm not really a photographer... but i did stay at a Holiday Inn"

So i installed the new tweetdeck. Do i have to redo my groups?

Last year's LDS Conference tech stats... including the # of tweets. http://bit.ly/sthW #ldsconf

Well, here's the thing. I'm not on top of things :( I have quicken and quickbooks but I fail to use them. Plus i love spreadsheets

@YoungTrends Looks like we won't be getting married after all... haha... I Hate doing dishes as well. And i capitalized the H

I knew there was a reason I should have deposited a bunch of wedding checks last week. Saw my account and ran over to do it today. Oh well

@CharlesUibel Skype on iPhone... here's the point... Europe! Or anywhere out of country.

@cato2010 Right now I'm using internal drives in external e-sata casings. But the hope is the drobo very soon.

It looks like I'll be buying another 1TB drive tomorrow. Seems like every 2 months or perhaps every 6 weeks.

fair 1 wk heads up. Next weekend a big proportion of LDS/Mormon folks will be tweeting a Ton. Like me... And it will be non photo stuff. k?

That sure is a mighty strong wind a'blowin #Utah

That's funny! Cuz' I'm not so sure what's so special either. ;) -- Really I'm just trying to bribe people W/ free workshops and kindness...

So who went to Holi : festival of colors?? Tell us abt it.

 

About me:

@jarvie gets the Sherlock Holmes Photography Award for the day. hahah.

Quote from @nicolesy during lunch at todays shoot: "I follow @jarvie on twitter, but I don't get what's so special about him". LOL

@jarvie the main guy here is giving u huge props. He's asking if u r here.

25Mar/090

A few of my favorite things

A few of my favorite things.
I could expand... but I wanna keep this short so I desire to write more posts.

Lightroom

Facebook

Hulu.com

Costco

Playlist.com 

Myself... haha

Uhhh... Photography... but you knew that.

24Jul/082

I think I have a death wish

So let me just say that what I'm doing is not healthy.

I keep on accepting more and more august weddings.
You say... now that's not really that bad at least you get lots of money.
Yes, I suppose you're right, I might not have to work the rest of the winter... or at least pay stuff off.

But let me give you a run down.
2 weddings is a decent month... you can stay afloat on that, specially when you're young and single.
3 is a busy month

My busiest month prior to august has been May = 6 weddings
I felt like i was going crazy trying to get everything done... way into july.

now let's skip to 8! That's crazy stuff!

That's about the time I said... "No More"

Then a friend calls... someone I've been teaching and working with to help her be a wedding photographer herself. She's getting married... and I say... yes. Plus it will be one of the few travel weddings for me in August. (Texas and San Diego) She even kinda rearanges the time to fit around another wedding I have that day and the other reception I have in San Diego the next week. Cool stuff.

Then I get another one... and another one... and another one...

And I keep saying yes.
I really have stopped counting... suffice it to say... Buy stock in Caffienated sodas, because it's gonna be a crazy month!

Hello mid-September I'm waiting for you!

23Jun/080

anyone like looking at photography websites?

I'd like to know if anyone has some time to spare and wants to look for famous photographers for me to meet with along the path of my trip: http://tinyurl.com/6rupcx.

Main spots I'll be stopping hoping to do an interview with people are

Interviews are for my podcast found on the envision blog

  • Tetons
  • rexburg ID
  • Yellowstone
  • Glacier national park (missoula, whitefish)
  • Banff (canada)
  • Jasper (canada)
  • Vancouver
  • Seattle
  • Olympia
  • Portland
  • Oregon coast
  • redwoods
  • crater lake area

Just figured someone might have some time and wanted to look at different photography sites.

scott

16Jun/082

New Photographer Tips #1

Tip 1

If you're interested in showing off your photography there's lots of ways.
Some are hard and some are easy and some are spendy.

People wonder how to make a website to show off their work.
I don't think straight to a new unique website should be your first step.

Try a blog for starters... show off your work as it comes little by little.
Blogger is fun and a lot of people use it... but it sucks if you want to put pictures and words.
You basically have to choose between the two.

Wordpress is heaps better in my opinion... but I don't know if it's easier per se.
But don't go the dumb route... invest a little time and get wordpress.

Here are my wordpress blogs
This One
PimpMyPictures
My official Photo Blog

You can change the layout and so many other things.
You can also see the amount of traffic coming to your blog and where it's coming from.

A Photo Blog is a great way to start out.

You could also just keep on posting new pictures in facebook of all your new work.

Avoid posting bad pictures.
Meaning stay away from mediocre and blurry pictures.

Basically don't post (blog, facebook, website) any pictures that isn't a representation of the work you'd do for someone.