January 25, 2010 at 10:20 am
Well, not really a new me, but some new business photos of me. And long overdue, too — the photo I’ve been using on my web sites and blogs (and as my social media avatar) is at least 5-6 years old now, and I just don’t look that young anymore. I haven’t seen all of the photos we took on Saturday, but of the ones I have seen, these are my favorites:
How’d I do?
Strange that both are serious poses. There are some good smiley shots, too, but I just like these more.
The photog is a guy I’ve known from the Tri-Cities group on Flickr. I posted a thread about wanting to get some new portraits done, and chose him from the people who replied. He’s not really even in business for himself yet, but has a little studio down in his basement at home, and all turned out well. Now Cari’s thinking about having him do new portraits for her, too.
May 19, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Been a while since I’ve done one of these posts, but the last week has brought several requests for photo usage and that reminded me to share some places where my Flickr photos have been used. I’ll start with a pic of our dog, Sparky, which is currently appearing on the home page of the Woof Report:
That won’t stay on the home page for long, but it’s also being used on this newsletter page. Go Sparky!
Here are others I’ve found:
- Beyond Phototips used my shot of footprints in the snow. It’s way down near the end of the article. On a related note, this same photo of mine will apparently be used in an Australian documentary that’s now in production. That was one of the email requests that came in this week.
- My uber-popular baseball photo appeared on ivorytowerz late last month.
- It also appeared on Bargain Briana.
- A photo I took of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile was used on Wide Open Wallet way back in March.
- And my “The End” photo appeared on Through the Illusion.
April 19, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Our friends and family are welcome to visit us at any time of year, but if you’re smart and thinking ahead, you’ll come visit in April. I think it’s gotta be the best time to come see us. Here’s why:
If you come visit us in April, you’ll be able to see…
our tulips in bloom
our cherry trees starting to blossom
the magnolia tree/bush in full bloom
the lilacs in all their purple glory
and our crazy dog enjoying the warm weather
So, yeah, this has gotta be the best month to come to West Richland and visit. Cari has always said that spring is her favorite time of year. That’s partly because her birthday is in spring, but I think the above also has a lot to do with it.
March 1, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Lots of cool sightings of my Flickr photos out on the web lately, starting with my two kids appearing in the February newsletter from S. R. Clarke. (Hi Todd!)
And here are a bunch of other photo finds in recent weeks:
- That photo of my son and his friend selling lemonade was used on Small Biz Trends (one of my favorite blogs!).
- Deal Seeking Mom used a tomato close-up photo a couple weeks ago.
- Bag & Baggage recently used my rural mailbox photo.
- Consumerist used another photo: an old Burger King french fries pic that I think they’ve used before, too.
- A travel site called HoteloTravel used my Portland nightscape photo, which continues to be a popular choice for PDX-related sites to use.
January 25, 2009 at 5:46 pm
The Consumerist has been all over the Circuit City closing/liquidation story lately, and last week’s series of articles included my photos three times in one week. Sweet!
That’s a screenshot from this post last Thursday. Less than an hour earlier, they used one of my photos on this post. And it all began last Tuesday with this post.
How crazy is that?!? And cool, too. But mostly crazy.
January 16, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Actually, that headline isn’t true. I’ve just been too busy to get around to posting. But it’s always cool to see my Flickr pix being used online, and here’s where I’ve found them:
That’s a shot of Sean and his buddy, Alex, on The Consumerist last week. He was pretty happy to see himself online like this — but it wasn’t the first time. Another site used that same photo a few months back!
Here’s more:
- CNBC used my favorite Portland skyline photo in a slideshow about popular relocation cities.
- Ecoble used that same photo last month, and back in November they used a Yoke’s temperature sign photo in a story about global warming.
- UTNE Reader used a photo of me and my daughter in an article about the ACLU. (yuck)
- Finally, Book Club Classics used one of my autumn leaves photos back in mid-November. That’s how long it’s been since I did one of these posts.
Meanwhile, aside from the recent floods, I haven’t had time to put many photos on Flickr lately. Don’t know when that’ll change…..
November 12, 2008 at 11:54 pm
There’s a bad Halloween-related pun in that headline. But since this latest roundup of Flickr photo finds is almost all Halloween-related, who could resist turning “trick or treat” into “Flickr Treats”? Not me.
Anyhoo … looks like several blogs found and liked my Halloween candy photo from two years ago. Here it is on Slashfood, an AOL blog:
That same photo (a personal fave of mine) was used in two other Halloween-related blog posts:
And the last photo find is from an article called Save $1000 in 30 days, on YBP Guide, which used my semi-recent photo of the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace Jr. set we’re using to teach the kids about money management.
October 18, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Plenty of my Flickr photos have been used on blogs and web sites, but I can say with certainty that this is the first time my son has appeared in one of those photos:
That photo appeared a few days ago on the HTNet blog. I’m guessing Sean will be happy to see himself on the web like this. 
Here are some other places I’ve recently found my photos in use:
September 16, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Some photos you remember exactly when and where and what it was like when you pushed the button on your camera. A blog called Wide Open Wallet recently found and used one of those photos:
That was taken on a flight from home to Atlanta, and it was snowing in Denver and the fact that there were three inches of snow on the ground didn’t slow anyone down. I remember looking out the airplane window as we landed and taxied and I’m sure I was shaking my head that we’d just landed on a snowy runway.
Here are three other places my photos have been used lately:
- My rural mailbox photo is on the Simple Makes contact page.
- My baseball-in-the-grass photo remains a popular choice — it was used on the Deuce of Davenport blog. That’s three months in a row that someone found and used that one.
- And finally, a new one — first time I know of this Snow Patrol CD photo being used, as it was recently on Create Digital Music.
August 12, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Is this the first time one of my U2 pictures has been picked up somewhere? I think so. I have “U2″ as a Google (and Yahoo) news alert, and it was very strange to click through to this Wired story and see my own flippin’ photo used as the illustration!
Meanwhile, Wired has so much real estate from its header down to the actual content, that I have to shrink the whole image down to this mini version. It looks much better in actual size.
And here are some other folks happily using my Flickr pix:
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