So Fangasm is available today.   I'm still waiting on my hardcopy, but I just discovered it's also available in Kindle format.  So now I have a copy to read!  Yay!

Of course I'm EXHAUSTED from my day-job work and doing some photography work as well.  Basically holding down two jobs now.   So I am either too tired to try to read it tonight or will stay awake just to do so and then be even more tired tomorrow.  But, whatever!

Can't wait to read all this.  :)  Lynn & Kathy, I am so proud of you both.  I know this isn't your first, but it's Fangasm.   Your baby has been delivered.

And hey, I now have photos in an actual published book.  lol.   :)  (FYI, the color of the page is my personal configuration for Kindle.  Helps with my eye strain to not be staring an a blaring white page on an electronic device.)

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Random aside:   WOW Is it RAINING much??!!!

It's been a very long summer.  All kind of a blur.  I'm one of those people who gets energized by Fall.   It sparks my creative energy.   I put in likely 15 hours yesterday doing long overdue work on my photography business.  So I'm feeling accomplished and while a tad bit tired, not exhausted at all.  I think back to 2008 when I was considering launching my own business.  Photography was not on the list of potentials back then.   I felt like I was moving through sludge to try to figure out what and how and if I even wanted to do it.  And the answer kept coming back NO.

What is the line by John Lennon, "Life is what happens when you are making other plans?"   This feels something like that.  I've always loved photography.   I almost majored in it back in college, but didn't for many reasons.    Mostly (but not only) because frankly back then darkroom work bored and frustrated me.  Way too slow and cumbersome.   (Ironic now because I'm considering enrolling in a darkroom class; which would be my first since I was about 19 years old.)  I received my first camera when I was about 7 or 8 years old.  It was a Brownie.  I'm pretty sure it was this one below.  I can still remember opening the package.  When my daughter was born I was constantly taking photos of her with our Canon EOS film camera.   Bob was always telling me to stop taking photos because I was "wasting film!"  I cataloged all my negatives and marked the back of all prints with the cataloged negative reference numbers.( Screen shots of websites/social media sites... )

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Quick iphone photo. This made our morning. a delivery from Kyle and Stephanie as a thank you for photographing Luke yesterday. Really sweet of them (and delicious!)  Every time someone thanks me for this I want to tell them that I should be thanking them for letting me take photos as it is my happy place.

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Actually I missed the date again.  Keep forgetting.  It was July 9th, 2006 when I first signed up for an LJ account.  So 7 years now!   I didn't even know of SPN back then.  Came here because of Lost.  But found SPN a few months later.

It appears that the last time I made an LJ-versary entry was 3 years ago.   Where I wrote: "I've had 21,496 unique visits and 41,155 page views.   And while for about a half of that year I was posting a hell of a lot.  The last six months have slowed to a crawl as far as posting is concerned.    In the past four years, I've made 1,828 posts, received 9,157 comments, and made 6,204 comments.   And made great friends!"

That was back in 2010 and I was about to start my 1-1/2 year hiatus from SPN cons.  While I had purchased my first DSLR camera for the Chicon 2008 convention, I still had NO idea how to really use it.   During the 1-1/2  years I was away from conventions I started teaching myself how to really make use of the camera and to understand the technology behind the lenses.   That made all the difference in the world.

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Last week I posted about how I was liking the new photostream view on Flickr.  Especially when used to search for specific tags, such as seeing a wall of Jensen.

I just accidentally stumbled across a third-party Flickr app called Flickriver.   Don't know how old it is.   But when I use it to view all my Flickr photos tagged with Jensen, I get a simple, infinitely scrolling, stream of high-quality photos set on a black background.  (Click here to see the whole view.)  Less overwhelming than Flickr's new photostream gallery view.  It's a bit Tumblr-like (but without all the distracting gifs.)

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Went on a location scout today to find places to take photos.  My friend Rebekah came along.  We went to the SE warehouse district over by Water Avenue and OMSI (near 2nd & Salmon).   I really loved this location on a Sunday.  Lots of close parking.  Lots of wide streets with interesting warehouses.  Not too many people.   Railroad tracks.  I have over 100 good photos from here.  Here are a few samples.

I'm getting some reactions to this shot from last night.  It was hard for me to pick between this shot and the other one I decided to share here.   But based on some comments I've gotten, I'm going to share this one as well.



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