Can't we All Just Get Along..............

Well it's January 1, 2013 and I am going to do something that I generally don't do. Make some new year resolutions.

First off let me say that I am guilty as anyone when it comes to my resolutions of what I am not going to do. I know that sounds a little confusing. But , this is my attempt to try and make things better and less stressful for what ever time I may have left (only God knows that). So here goes.

I resolve to do things on my schedule and only my schedule. If you want my help with anything, we make an agreed upon schedule. If you do not live up to the schedule, it is on you and the task is over. Same for me. I am no longer going to keep changing my schedules to accommodate you constantly changing yours. Remember, "A failure to plan on your part does not constitute a crisis on my part".

I am no longer going to be anyone's personal computer geek, photography guru, automobile rescuer or handy man (which I am not anyway). If you want my help in these areas, see above paragraph.

I resolve to try to lose weight, cut down on my drinking and get the hell out of the house and get some fresh air and exercise. And I don't want to hear from anyone on how I am doing. Leave me alone on this.

I resolve to leave the premises whenever I have to listen to family members bickering about trivial things (and this is an area that I am guilty of doing also). People need to learn to get back to talking to each other (yes REAL talking). Text messaging, in my opinion, is the worst thing that has come along. It is so easy to misinterpret, misunderstand and just go viral at someone through texting. I hate it.

Now there are probably more things that I should resolve, but I think this is a good start. I am sure this is going to probably piss off my wife, family and who knows who else. If some of the things I ranted about above change for the better, maybe my resolutions will change too.

Folks, the bottom line is Life is too short. Get closer to your friends and families ( me too). You will miss them when they are gone. I really don't know why people have developed into the attitudes I see today. Maybe it is the economy or government or both. I know the economy and helping others (and my not being able to say no when it came to expenditures) has caused stress in my life. That is why I had to file bankruptcy.  Got only four more years to go and only four more years of Obama. If I make it, things should start looking pretty good.

Ok, let the comments begin. I got my big boy undies on.

Happy New Year.

Pint Size Footballers

I don't have the opportunity to photography sports like my friend Steve Branscombe but I did manage to shoot some photos at a couple of my grandson's football games this year. His name is Jake (sounds footballish doesn't it). He plays on a team called the Chiefs (somewhat better than the Kansas City kind) and are 8 and 9 year old's. He plays both offense and defense. I was lucky enough to be permitted to actually go on the field and take my photos (I can still move enough to get out of the way of 8 and 9 year old's). I hope you like the pictures. Some of these mighty mights really gave it everything.

Thanks for stopping by and if you have time checkout my portfolio images for sale at papagphotos.com

Winding Down......

Now that it is November golf season will be winding down. I managed to work five days last week but this week is looking pretty slim. That said, I now have a little more time to work on my photography business. I took the shot below from the second hole on the Shoreline Golf course where I work. Our Omaha Camera Club had an assignment of "panorama" this year so I decided to give it a try with this image.

I may get some future business from my golf course. When I showed them my work they were impressed and they may be putting one of my images on their web site. They also talked about me doing Christmas cards for them to send out this year. Let's hope.

Anyway hope you like this and please stop by my web site at papagphotos.com .

Some people are like Slinky’s. Pretty much useless but make you smile when you push them down the stairs :)

How insensitive!

Just found out a good friend of my wife's just got some more disturbing news. She works for the University of Nebraska Medical Center here in Omaha in the Internal Medicine department as a secretary. She has been battling cancer for some time and was planning on an operation in Iowa City, Iowa that would have left her cancer free. Well the good old UNMC told her that if she left to get the operation that they could not hold her job and she would be fired. Now she can't get the operation because she needs the job to provide a roof over her head.

I have to ask, "How could a medical center be so insensitive to do such a thing"? If anyone out there has any clout or email connections, please bombard this organization.

Do we have Obama to thank for this?

The Times They Are A-Changin'

Hello, it's me again. Just got back from a trip to Ohio to visit relatives. It cost me $700 to tune the van up before I went, and when I got there, $650 for new tires (I new they were iffy before I went but tried to sneak by). Guess I will hope that the weather stays descent so some of those golfers will still play and need my golf cart expertise and I can replenish my funds. anyway, I digress.

I was overwhelmed during the trip by the beautiful fall colors. Of course I didn't get to take many picture of them due to me driving and because of family requirements to do other things. However, I did manage to capture a few images one day while visiting some pumpkin patches. Since I did not have time to enter a panorama image in my camera club competition, I decided to whip one up an put it in here.

I worked it over a little with Nik filters to help punch up the colors a little.

Now that golf season is slowing down I might be able to do a little more photography and blogging. I also have my own domain name now, papagphotos.com , and I will be working on improving my photo selling site. By the way, I choose the domain name because some of my grand kids call me PAPA.This site is pretty cool because you can order prints, matts and fames and view what they look like before purchasing and they handle all the purchasing and shipping parts of the business.

Thanks for stopping by again and don't forget to shop at papagphotos.com .

Cox Classic Media Day

Yesterday I started my annual mission to photograph various events for the 2012 Cox Classic at Champions golf course in Omaha. The first event was the Media Day outing for local media personnel. It was a fun event and it was evident when talking to the various folks as they past by my area. They all said that there were other people photographing them on the course and they were all cuter than me. Hmmmm. Oh well, I have included here four of the on-air personalities from two of the local stations. Guess the other two stations don't have any avid golfers. More blogs will be coming as the tournament unfolds, which is August 2nd thru the 5th. Thanks for stopping by.

It's All About Competition.....................

The last few days my buddy over at Iowa farm Boy posted some more pictures from our NHRA drag race trip to Topeka KS. They were of burn outs and wheelies from the door slammers (street cars). So I decided to throw a couple up here to compete a little. He also put up a really attractive picture of me (not). Hope you enjoy these and thanks for stopping by.

Boy would I like to be these photographers just once.