Just trying to catch up with editing here, we’ve managed several shoots over the past couple months and it’s been a blast! This is a brief overview of what we’ve been up to, I’ll likely make a couple other posts to cover them and share more photos too!

We started in our home space with Priya, followed by some outdoor fun with Jessica.

After that we had some studio fun during a day where we were called in to model:

Followed by another weekend of myself modelling for Kefkism Design:

And another impromptu shoot with two wonderful ladies, Desiree and Kirstie:

And then we had a giant weekend of almost non stop photos, first with Sabine and Shawn, and then with Raia Safyre and Danailya Reese. Many thanks to Paul from Half Psychotic Make Up for makeup for the last two.

And then last weekend was CCEE, though due to attendance issues we don’t actually have any photos – but we did go to the zoo!

DJorgensen on Tumblr

Some of you may already have noticed that I’ve been making an effort to post photos from my phone on Tumblr this year. It’s not been an every day sort of thing, the 365 project has been something I’ve attempted in the past but found that it just became photos of cats, food, and self portraits. Instead I’ve been more trying to capture what’s going on when there’s something interesting or fitting of my mood and limiting myself to the camera on the phone to really push myself into doing better even with limitations. Even still, the results point to the fact that I simply think a lot about cats, food and take photos of myself. C’est la vie~

Every once in a while I’ll take a bit of a break to share other things I am doing, like leatherwork or art that I’ve made too! Which of course isn’t always going to be with the camera on the phone.

Anyway, feel free to add me over there and let me know about your own personal Tumblrs! I’ve also opened it up to comments and all that jazz, and just noticed it was not linked to my twitter. Not only that but I’m posting this from my phone as well to see how it goes!

It’s far later than I’d like it to be, but I’ve finally gotten around to modifying the them to suit the style of the site here. There is likely a lot of tweaking left to do, and then more posting that need to be done to cover for the past year, but still tonight progress has been made.

Recently Marilyn and I have been connecting with others and looking to expand our portfolios. We’ve not done nearly as much work with the beauties and talents that are around us and we really desire to change that. We’ve two free rooms in our house – one being empty and the other with some furniture that are working fairly well as a studio space with our tests. That said we still both seem to love shooting outdoors so having an indoor space isn’t likely to prevent us from venturing outside ever again.

The other interesting event we recently attended was Sweet Carousel’s Laced Up Cabaret. I’ve several photos that I am still cranking out, and despite missing the fashion show and freezing outside we’re both quite happy to have made it! That’s really all for now – all these photos are up on our facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/DJorgensen.RilynDell If you are not yet a fan, head over and give us a like!

Well this summer has been a busy one! I’ve gone through one camera and started with a new one, still working on replacing the equipment lost… but I’ve finally managed to establish some manner of goals for myself when it comes to getting out more often and taking more photos.

As such I shall be moving some of the technical talk off of here, likely it will end up at http://djorgensen.mine.nu though that remains to be seen for certain. I’m also looking to share more about the details of the trips I embark on and talk about the photos and stories that led up to each of them since I’ve really been finding that the more that I hike and travel, the more the journey to get the photo you end up seeing in the end counts (and often they are rather interesting stories – like dealing with beetle attacks, crazy people walking up to wildlife, or just general unplanned occurrences). Other than that, you may also start to see posts from Marilyn regarding the work that she does too.

For now, I’ll leave you with this – a bit of an inspiring photo taken before we left for our last trip in August:

For the past few months now I have found myself working! April and May had me traveling this route: Google Maps, 2010 Journey, of which I have many photos of that are waiting to be processed (all added of course to the few thousand I have not gotten around to yet).  In the first week of May though, I managed to capture this small panorama of the Peace River and Dunvegan.

I also managed to capture some photos of the forest fire in Opal, the sunset on Highway 63 near Fort McMurray, and  some wildlife in the Muskoseepi Park in Grande Prairie, as well as some others here and there.

After completing that short contract, it was barely a week before I was put into my new role. It seems to be a fairly quiet and comfortable environment, which will certainly be nice. So finances looking up, free time looking up, and motivation also being quite on the up lately, things are really splendid! Still studying for some certifications (CCNA getting put on the backburner for the sake of what they wish me to complete for this new position), and still working on photography and some leatherwork, as well as taking care of my lovies, and seemingly reading more and more comics as the days go by…

It’s also very likely that I am moving (well less of the likely sort and more of a question of when it will happen).  Hopefully that gets cleared up – yet it is all for the best too since I shall finally get to have my Marilyn around more often.