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Yale Street Market Time!

It is that time again! Yale Street Market is this Saturday! I’ll be there, and Elaine might be there (she had a conflict this month, so she’s working that out), and there will be lots of great prints for sale! The market is from 6pm – 10pm (Summer Hours!) and it is really a fun time.

Last month, Mitch asked me if I would go and photograph the performing artist for June, Carrie Ann Buchanan. I did, and gave him permission to use the photos with the press releases he has been sending out. The featured photograph here is also the featured image along with the information on Yale Street Market at the ArtsHound site! It is currently right on the first page. How cool is that?

Other works coming out in publications over the next few weeks … I’ll keep you posted as they hit news stands!

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Rain, Rain, GO AWAY.

It is like the movie Groundhog Day, with every day being just like the day before. (Well, that is what I’ve heard the movie is like – I’ve slept through it no less than 3 times.) My yard is starting to turn into a lake. It just keeps on raining, and raining, and raining.

Seriously? It is getting old.

I still haven’t figured out how much rain we’ve gotten this month so far, but I was just *thrilled* to learn that June is normally the month where we get the most rain. So maybe there is some hope of it ending sometime? I really hope so. I need some more sunshine in my life!

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A Nice Surprise!

I graduated from high school back in 1987. Whenever I sign up for things like Facebook and they offer to help me find my classmates, I laugh. I’ve never once found anyone I’ve known online. Not for the school I graduated from here in Houston (in a class of almost 600), or from the high school I attended my freshman & first half of my sophomore year in Illinois. (Go, Bishop McNamara!) So when I was setting things up in my Facebook account last week, I really was not expecting to find anyone I knew.

And for once, I was wrong.

Back in high school, I had a friend named Liz Henry. She was cool, different, a free thinker, and someone that hated all the typical high school cliques. She was a lot stronger than I was, and I admired the crap out of her for it. Plus she was just freakin’ awesome. Smart too – so smart, she graduated early. And with the craziness that is senior year, I lost touch with her.

Until now. She was one of 4 people that graduated with me that showed up on Facebook. She was the only one that I really knew of the one that showed up on the list. Before I added her as a friend, I spotted that she lives in San Francisco now, and I decided to check out her contacts – only to see several people that I also know! Of course, I had to send her a message through Facebook right away, and we’ve exchanged a few emails. Turns out we were both at SxSW this year, and we didn’t even know it.

Whoa! What a small world. And amazing to think that 20 years later, we both have the same fabulous taste in friends. It still amuses me every time I think about it! I guess I’ll have to stop mocking the social network sites when they offer to show me people I might know!

(In case you wondered, you can find her at http://liz-henry.blogspot.com/, among other places.)

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Whoosh!

Whooooooosh!

I feel like that is the sound of time whipping past me. My to-do list keeps getting longer, and I seem to slowly be getting things marked off of it, but only slowly. *sigh*

My parents are staying at our house right now; construction is well under way at their house, they are now working on the district heating design, and while the painters are working there, we let them escape the craziness by coming over here, they just worry a lot, they made sure the painters had a fall arrest from https://mhipros.com to prevent them from falling, I guess it is also very nice of them to worry that much. I spent most of the afternoon there today, and my eyes are still burning from the paint fumes! So I’m glad we’re giving them a break from all of that. Let me tell you though – if you’re ever considering remodeling, don’t. Just stop. Sell the house and buy a new one. I swear, it would be so much easier! (I say that, and yet if I could live in some great craftsman style home and the price I had to pay was fixing it up, I would totally go for it. But that is different, somehow. I’m not sure how, but it is!)

So in the past week I’ve installed a new shopping cart over at the Fresh Photography site – you can see it by going to the “Client” area at the top of the page. I’ve edited and uploaded Leia & Jim’s wedding. I’ve edited and uploaded Idalis’s photos, my latest newborn shoot. I’m about to finish editing and uploading Alexis’s photos, my latest toddler session. Elaine & I went to shoot a bar last Wednesday for a local magazine – details on that to follow once the issue runs. I then did another shoot for them on Friday of the bartender of the month for the next issue.

All in all, life is fabulous – but so busy right now! I am not complaining at all – I just need to catch up and stop adding more to my to-do list than what I mark off of the list each day!

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Fresh Photography Updates!

Post author By Christine
Post date Thursday, June 14, 2007

We’ve added new art prints to the Artwork section of the Fresh Photography site! We have lots more to add too in the near future. Many of these have been available for purchase over time at the Yale Street Art Market that we participate in each month in the Heights, but over time we have so many prints available, we won’t always keep them in stock – but they will always be available on the website!

Check them out, and feel free to leave comments – we love to hear from you!

Now I’m off to work on creating several Flash slideshows for the portfolio section – weddings, engagement sessions, newborns, toddlers – lots and lots of photography!