Greetings,

Last week I had the opportunity to take some new maternity shots with Lydia. I have easily worked with her for a decade now, both as her being a MUAH behind the scenes and as a model. She’s a mother of two and married to a fantastic event and corporate photographer. Watching life go by has been fun.

Last week, I revisited some previous shoots from a long while back. I edited more of the wonderfully talented artist Aurora—another with a decade of history in front of my camera and good friend. We still chat occasionally; hopefully, after she comes home from her travels around the country, we can get another shoot in. She vacationed with Linda and me for five years in a row, mostly to California. Every year, she was more beautiful than the year before. And, over the years, I saw her art go from fantastic to outstanding. When I first met her, she was shy about showing anyone her art. She didn’t see her potential and progress. I’m so glad she’s overcome that and now does a lot of commission work.

In the next week or two, I hope to be editing on a new Mac Studio. A kick butt computer with two TB of solid state disk and 64GB of memory, and M2 Apple silicon. If all you got from that was the kick-butt part, that’s fine. It covers it nicely. If I'm patient, I don’t do any work that my laptop can’t handle, but sometimes it whimpers a little. I’ll be building up some new videos because it will be far more powerful and built for that kind of challenge—bottom line…new toys rock.

Speaking of new toys, and getting a bit geeky.

I picked up a pair of radios from the 1960’s that needed some TLC. From a company called R.L. Drake and these are a transmitter and receiver. A notorious problem with the older radios like this is the grease used for the main tuning knobs and ball bearings has dried out. it makes tuning around a but warbly where it jumps around in frequency. Irritating to be sure. Well, I took that part out and cleaned it up and regreased it and it works fine. The process had me worried, however, because it was not an easy process. And it was a deeper dive into the radio than I’ve ever done in the past. After getting it back together, I’m happy to report it’s suitable for at least another 50 years. A Drake R4B and T4XB for those interested.

The video is of Elley, Dan, and I at an abandoned mansion infested with wasps. It was a tricky shoot, but we got some beautiful looks from it. And what are wasps for? A meaningless species. Then again, humans… But I digress.

Happy holidays!

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“Be curious, not judgemental” - Walt Whittman

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