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7-7-09

Day 1061 of 365 Again. This is really starting to piss me off. Right before Steph and I left for Tennessee, I started having problems with my pool. For some reason the circuit I have my filter plugged into was overloaded and it kept tripping. So I had to run a cable to another circuit…

5-31-09

Day 1024 of 365 Again. Now this was fun. So, back when I shot the Maverick School for Wayward Girls, my friend, Morgan, from wrestling saw them and wanted me to shoot new gimmick pictures for her (that’s what we call our 8x10s that we sell to fans). She had never done any real modeling…

Trix-22

Trix-22

Trix, a wrestling friend of mine, wanted sexy but tasteful pics to sell to her fans so she called me up and we did a shoot. Came up with some really good stuff. Even with no real previous modeling experience i think she did great.

4-24-09

Day 987 of 365 Again. It was 84 degrees in Pittsburgh today.Almost like we were having a real summer. Half way through the day all I could think about was coming home and cleaning the pool. I’m having a bbq tomorrow and it will probably still be too cold to actually go in the water,…

1-13-09

Day 886 of 365 Again. Like I said, I have so been waiting to do one of these. Spent much of the morning stuck in the hotel room, since Steph’s luggage was STILL not here. Eventually, I decided that’s no way to do Vegas, and we had Blue Man Group tickets and stuff tonight. I…

9-14-08

Day 765 of 365 Again. Summer is winding down. I never had as much opportunity to go swimming in my pool as I would have liked this summer, so I was determined to get some use out it at the end. It was quite humid and hot today, so that was the perfect opportunity. After…

6-27-08

6-27-08

Day 686 of 365 More.

Ah, refreshing.

Steph and I finally got a chance to use the pool tonight. It was quite nice. Not quite as warm as I like it (I like my pool water to feel warm… almost like the hottub) but it was quite nice anyway, probably just the temperature that most people like it.

Anyway, initially I had intended to do a shot of me floating underwater, but then I got the idea of doing a jumping out of the water shot (as opposed to my cannonballing into it that I did last year). This is what I finally came up with.

Aquaman, eat your heart out!

365 days

6-9-08

6-9-08

Day 668 of 365 More.

It’s been hot this week. Godawful hot. In the 90s, and extremly humid. I guess some places it’s like that all the time, but that’s exceptional for Pittsburgh this time of year.

And the worse part, I hadn’t gotten around to cleaning and filling my pool so I couldn’t just jump in to cool off.

I decided tonight was a good time to fix that.

While I was at it, I filmed a tutorial for next week’s podcast on shutter speed. So if you’ve ever wondered how to do a shot like this, where you freeze water in the air, be sure to check out next week’s show. (This week’s show will hopefully be up soon).

365 days

6-18-07

Day 311 of 365 days. The hardest part of unemployment is that pretty much every day is the same. I spent the day working on photos and talking to models with the occasional interruption of a phone call from a recruiter. In some ways its nice. I’m getting some good work done (insert gratuitous Maverick…

5-29-07

Day 291 of 365 days. Splash! So to all appearances my life is maybe not so bad. I’ve said before, I get to spend most of my days doing photography, which is a hell of a lot better than whatever most people do for a living. On top of that, most of my photography consists…

2-22-07

Day 195 of 365 days. I got home very late last night from that old lady’s house that I mentioned yesterday. I wish someone had warned me about her. She wanted to do unspeakable things. Just unspeakable! Anyway, it was another productive day for FUNemployed Mav. I talked to a couple different recruiters about jobs.…

12-17-06

Day 128 of 365 days. (This is sort of an unintentional copycat of sorts of Sick Little Monkey’s pic from yesterday. I ‘ve had the idea to do it for a few days now, but I had more time sensitive pics the last couple days. Originally this was planned to be the shot from the…

9-21-06

Day 41 of 365 days. After work today I finished winterizing the swimming pool in my backyard. Its always a sad day because it kind of signifies the definitive end of summer for me (though in actuality, its been too cold to use the pool for weeks now). I really wish I had had an…