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.

This past week found me out and about taking photos at the Canada Day parade and the fireworks celebration in the evening. I’ve yet to get through all of the parade photos – yet the firework photos can be found on my flickr here:

Canada Day 2009 – Edmonton

Also earlier this spring I took a few afternoons with my camera to walk about the river valley and other parts of the city. I’ve got one of those sets posted on myflickr as well at:

Spring Walks 2009

Other than that, I’ve been going through a great deal of my older unprocessed photos – albeit rather slowly. Hopefully one day I shall manage to catch up on it all.