This last Saturday I had the honor of photographing one of the coolest chicks on the planet.  For six hours.  In a parking garage, city parks and downtown lots.  At a famous, Houston restaurant and the surrounding property of the Menil Collection.  We climbed trees, scaled walls and waterfalls, and even climbed into an abandoned shopping cart.  ( Read more... )

Okay, we did not actually, per say, pull this activity from The Date Box.  But!  It is in The Date Box to be pulled.  It was one of a few Date Box activities that we both knew about before hand.  Therefore we discussed it with people when explaining The Date Box in casual conversation.  And people (mainly, some of my favorite relatives) got excited ( Read more... )

Every year Rhonda and I have the week between Christmas and New Year's off from work.  We try to take advantage of that time to travel, but this year (for a number of reasons) we weren't feeling the whole traveling thing.  And if you know anything about me at all, you definitely know that I'd sooner cut off a limb than sit around the house on my ( Read more... )

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I had a very long chat with someone yesterday about... well... about a lot of things, but a great deal of it concerning specific types of human beings and our varied emotional reactions.  About the artists and creators and deeply rooted evaluators of the world.  About the everyman.  About the people that know us versus the people that understand us ( Read more... )

I very recently found this website belonging to photographer and documentarian, L. Weingarten (I have searched the Internet and for the life of me, cannot tell you what the 'L' stands for).  All of Weingarten's projects are stunning and you should absolutely sit down with them, perhaps accompanied by a glass of wine.  Or a nice aged brandy.  Or a ( Read more... )

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Do you ever find yourself saying things to people that you perhaps should have thought about first?  So as the words are spewing from your mouth like they'd been shot out of a cannon, you realize that maybe you should've consulted your wife before committing to anything?  But oops!  You didn't!  And now it's out there on the table for everyone to " ( Read more... )

The last night we were in Columbus, a HUGE block party was thrown for all of the World Series participants.  There was funnel cake!  And beer!  And live music!  And hot, sweaty, half-naked, dancing people!

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Oh.  Wait.  We were the hot and sweaty, half-naked, dancing people.  I can't remember the last time I danced for hours like that.  And just when ( Read more... )

I've been gone a little more than eight days.  Specifically, I've been in Columbus, OH, playing softball in the World Series.  There are no words for how much fun I had, for how honored I was to be a playing member in the series, or for what it was like to spend a week with a mere 5,000 people who love this sport just as much as I do.  But I'll try ( Read more... )