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December 31, 2012 · 2:30 pm

Here’s To The New Year!

2012 ended for me on a high note: I spent a wonderful White Christmas with my sister, brother-in-law, and all of their assorted kids and grandkids. While I was there, I photographed a beautiful wedding of two awesome people. I’ve been published, both photographically and in written form (a dream come true for me). I’ve traveled to some neat places like Seattle, Mount Rainier National Park, Mesa Verde National Park, and Arches National Park. I’m still employed. I have neat camera gear. I have some great friends. And, I have a family who I love very much, and who loves me. Of course there have been low points, but that’s a given for everybody. The high points outweighed any low points, that’s for sure.

So here’s to a New Year that I hope will be every bit as great as this year has been. I have a trip already planned and paid for in February, another trip in the works, a possible new venture about which I am keeping my fingers crossed, and more columns to publish in the National Parks Traveler website.

I wish all of you the very best for 2013, and I hope that your dreams come to fruition and you have a year filled with love, contentment, happiness, and success.

From me to you:

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Open-mouthed smile

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January 1, 2012 · 6:16 pm

Good Food Is A Good Way To Start The New Year

Nothing says “Celebration” better than great food. Nothing says “Holiday” better than a traditional meal. So naturally, I had some photographic fun with our New Year’s Day lunch.

Every New Year’s Day, the traditional meal in my family consists of black-eye peas cooked in ham juice with chunks of ham (The peas represent money in the form of loose change),

boiled cabbage cooked in a little ham juice and liberally sprinkled with little pepper flakes (The cabbage represents money in the form of paper dollars),

and cornbread (the non-sweet kind over which we spoon the peas and ham).

Homemade pickled beets were a side dish accompanying this year’s meal

and I fixed French vanilla cupcakes with milk chocolate frosting.

Nothing beats a boxed cake mix (I’m serious!). There are even a series of cook books out there (I have most of them) by The Cake Mix Doctor that uses the basic boxed cake mixes and embellishes upon them. Cakes from a box mix always come out moist and tender (IMO).

Everything else is icing on the cake (pun intended).

Happy New Year, Everybody!!

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December 30, 2011 · 10:14 pm

2012: Bring It On!!

I went to the grocery store today and spent more money than I had intended – even though I stuck (for the most part) to my shopping list. I walked along the alcohol aisle and spotted a bottle of Barefoot Champagne. I like the Barefoot brand, but have never tried their bubbly, so I bought the bottle, brought it home, and stuck it in the fridge.

Then, as my photographic imagination conjured up a plethora of photo ops, I kept taking the bottle out of the fridge to use as a prop. All of the photos below are HDR images, created from the use of 3-5 images of the same scene but with different shutter speeds. I’m posting everything now because I want to, and because I know I will not be up to toast in the New Year. I am an early riser (4AM during the workweek and 6AM on days off), hence I go to bed early. I rarely reach the midnight hour unless I am totally focused on photo editing or I am watching something really good on television. In point of fact, I’ve already opened the champagne (surely it’s New Year’s Eve somewhere on this planet), had a glass (quite tasty), put the rest back in the fridge (I’m a lightweight in my old age), and am going to go to sleep after publishing this post.

Looking back, it’s been a good year for me photographically (workwise, it’s been odd, but photographically, it’s been wonderful). I’ve traveled to Colorado, London, and all over Ireland this 2011; started my photography website and my Facebook Photography Page (feel free to “Like” me, and thanks!); created photo books on Blurb, and have my very own blog on WordPress.

Here’s to a good 2012 to all of you readers, to WordPress, and to my friends and family!

May 2012 be successful and happy for us all, with more good times than bad times, and when the bad times occur, may they pass out of our lives quickly.

Salud, Slainte, Cheers, Prost, Skaal, Iechye da, Mabuhay, L’Chaim, Kassutta, À votre santé, Bottoms Up!