Keith’s blog

Last week I photographed Audra Arnold’s baby for her first birthday pictures. These sessions are always fun because you never know how the baby will react to being able to make a mess without someone being right there to clean them up. Any way, we got great pictures. 

And today Audra showed up with THIS

a home made Oreo Cheese Cake. It’s FANTASTIC! Thanks Audra, you’re definitely the person of the day, make that person of the week around here.

I went to Trinity Baptist Church yesterday for the first time. A friend of mine and her two children were all baptized at the same time. She told me it’s been a dream of hers to be baptized with her children for a long time and it finally happened.

Friday night I got to eat at one of my favorite restaurants www.chefhenrys.com. The food and company was great! I also got to pick up some gift cards that I’ve needed to pick up.

The rest of the weekend was spent working around the house. I got a bunch of under brush cleared out and you can actually see through the woods at my house now. Lots more to do though. 

Keith

Tomorrow morning @ 5:00AM I’m hitting the road to Michigan with my Dad. We’re gonna drive straight up (almost 900 miles) and straight back. We’ll be picking up a boat he bought on, you guessed it, e-bay.

 If we slow down enough I’ll take a picture or two to post here next week. I HOPE we get back sometime Thursday night because I have sessions at the studio on Friday.

 If you look back at some of my posts you’ll see that I like a good road trip. It’ll be fun… I hope.

Keith

 EDIT:

We made the trip alright but we didn’t slow down enough for any pictures. We covered 1800 miles in 34 hours. My quick math tells me that we averaged about 54 miles per hour for the whole trip including stoping for eats & and fuel.

Today is the one year anniversary of one of my most life changing events.

June 1^st, 2007 I climbed Half Dome, in Yosemite National Park. I had been invited to go on the trip with some friends more than a year before the actual trip. I looked forward to it and thought it’d be a nice trip. It was just what I expected until I was on top of Half Dome.

The 5,000 ft climb and the 16 mile hike was probably one of the most physically challenging things I’ve ever done. Mentally, I had to have a real heart-to-heart with myself before actually going up the side of the rock too.

Once I got on top of Half Dome I had an epiphany that would change the way I look at life, living and work. I’ve written about it once or twice in my newsletter but the short story is, it was life changing! I can remember it like it was yesterday. All these thoughts hit me in the blink of an eye and I knew I’d never be the same. I decided on the spot, without any thought or consideration to make a LOT of changes. Mostly about how much work I put in.

Being completely honest I’d have to admit that before the trip was over I wondered to myself if I’d still feel the same way about the changes I was going to make over the course of time. That trip to the top of Half Dome is STILL as influential today as it was a year ago.

Here are a few pictures I took on that trip. The first is of me with Half Dome behind me. The second is me on top of Half Dome. To give a sense of scale, there are 20,000 people in the valley befind me and I couldn’t see a single one of them.

May you have a “Half Dome” event in your life.

Keith