Window On Life

Blogging on the go

I am sitting here in the council chambers waiting for a zoning meeting to begin. So I decided to try out this WordPress app on my iPhone. So far it appears to be working fine, once I got my credentials entered.

October 26th, 2011

The fun has begun

Photoshop World, the bi-annual conference and expo for photographers and other creatives, has begun for me. Today was pre-conference day, and I attended Quality of Light in Depth. This was a very informative and informal class. It was geared primarily towards portrait work, but I do believe that there was some information that I can take from it and apply towards my work in product photography. Especially some of the new lighting equipment that is available. According to the instructor, there have been huge advances in just the past year that have been a game changer. The key thing mentioned was the daylight balanced (5500K) fluorescent bulb.

I also found out that I have been assigned a portfolio review time slot. I do not know with who, but it is supposed to be someone that is a professional in the genre that I registered for, which was landscape and wildlife. Sure, I an hoping for Moose Peterson, but I am hopeful that anyone assigned to me will be able to give me some good feedback.
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March 29th, 2011

The world would be a better place if….

The world would be a better place if people cared. About one another. About themselves. About their jobs. About the people their jobs service.

In my life I have worked many jobs. Had a variety of different careers. Yet in each one I have to say that I made every effort to care about the people that I came in contact with while performing my job. And I always cared enough to give my very best to my employer. Maybe it was from being an actor early on in my life and learning that no matter what, the show had to go on. I learned to push down, aside, or “out of the way” any problems that I was dealing with so that I could give my best performance. This was further embedded in me while working at Disney World. It was expected that as soon as you hit “the stage” it was all smiles. And this was a theory that I took with me even when I worked behind the scenes. After all, I still had to deal with people that were outside my department, and they really did not care if I was having a bad day. They just wanted their report.
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March 26th, 2011

Bucket List add-on

Yes. It has been awhile since I have updated. But anyone who has been visiting may have noticed the add-on of a Bucket List tab. I am using a very good WordPress plug-in for it, Bucketlister. If you are also looking for a way to fairly easily maintain a bucket list, I highly recommend it.

January 23rd, 2011

Should “Black Friday” Be Allowed To Continue?

So, it is another year, and I am once again appalled at how the retailers have handled the so called “Black Friday”. Sure, some of them opened up earlier, even opening the night before and selling things, but there is still no regard given to those that are unable to shop at the times of the ‘Doorbuster’ deals. You know that for these retailers to be open, someone has to be there to:

open the doors
bring out merchandise
run cash registers
coral the shopping carts

And while I may not work in a retail location, nonetheless I have to work the Friday after Thanksgiving. I cannot be at a store at midnight, or 4 AM to get a DVD/Blu-Ray player for 30/50/75% off. I have to sleep so that I can work in a competent manner. So, when I go to get the combination hand/stand mixer at Target for 50% off at 5:30 PM (after working all day) they are sold out. And this was not a ‘Doorbuster’, it was on their 2-day sale. So much for having plenty on hand to last for two days.
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November 26th, 2010