I can’t believe how damn hot it is here. The daytime high is 105F, and it is 85F at night. Will update with more camera phone pics tomorrow. I do have my camera gear with me, so maybe I will go shoot late at night tomorrow.

We hit a record for the month of June in Ohio in total rainfall. Surpassing a record set over 50 years ago, the environmentalists will some how tie it in with global warming. If our cars ran on water, we’d be set to go.

I’m currently taking a video art class this summer with Dan Shallenbarger of DVPlace.com. Ardine Nelson recommended that I take this course, because she knows I’m not into alternative cameras, and it’ll satisfy the credit for me to graduate this fall. Dan is probably the coolest instructor I have ever had, second to Sarah Weinstock. He has some much information about TV that I want to hear everything he has to say. I’m supposed to shoot a biography video this weekend, that doesn’t include me in the actual video. Good thing it’s July 4th.

I recently shot the Hot Import Nights event when it came to Columbus with Mike Bender and Dave Bourne of CarandModel. Here’s a direct link to the article I wrote, and the images we collectively shot.

Mika and Kelli are going to be in town on Saturday (Mika is pictured above), and I’ll probably end up shooting them in the studio if they have time.  Cross your fingers.

I also shot the Nopi Drift event when they came to town June 7-8, but since I was insanely sick for 2 weeks after that event, I was delayed in getting the photos out to Mike to process to put up on the site. As a matter of fact, I still need to write the article for it. Oops. Better get on that this weekend or else I am in trouble! I’ll update some photography links too in a few days. I have really been slacking.

I just realized that I hadn’t updated in months, on the front end at least. As usual, things have been really busy. Spring quarter is finishing up, and I finally graduate this fall. I picked up a new Olympus Styles 850SW from Costco last week. It goes 10feet under water, and is shock resistant from 5feet vertical drops. This is the 2nd point and shoot camera I have purchased in 10 years. I really didn’t want to subject my DSLRs to vibrations and water on the boat like I did last year.

Today is Mother’s Day, and I took my mom, dad, sister, and her b/f Greg to dinner at Akai Hana. It’s a nice little Japanese restaurant off of Old Henderson. It’s not often that I pay for dinner. On Saturday, I went to a really ghetto car show out at the Frontier Ranch in Pataskala, OH called Cruisefest Nationals. It’s basically a large gathering of White trash, beads, and girls showing boobs. Somehow, they managed to add in cars to make it a legitimate car show. Save your money. I will add the link to the photos section shortly. We also went boating out on Buckeye Lake earlier in the day. The water police stopped us, as he suspected we were over the boat’s weight limit. Damn was he right! He told us to either drop a person off on shore, or go home. Or else, he’d cite us. We went home to avoid a citation. More to come later, it’s about bedtime.

So I’ll admit, I’m pretty foreign when it comes to studio lighting. I can handle hot-shoe flashes pretty well, but it is true when they say, “the less lights, the better.” You use one light to get rid of one shadow, and another appears. Everything has a learning curve I guess, and I’m picking up on studio lights pretty fast. Sam and I did some shots in the studio yesterday, and I wanted him to look as flaming as possible. Did I succeed?

Click here to see the rest of the shoot.