Starting Anew Again

Well it is 2014 and looking at my blog I only made two entries for 2013.  John is embarrassed of that fact.  He is the one that helps puts a posting together.  He’s the one that really interacts with the world around us, I’m only an observer.  When tells me of other blogs that he reads on a regular basis and wonders why he can’t be that committed to posting something at least once a week.  The main reason is he has a vision, a plan or a design for each posting and a big part of that is photographs.

John grew up around photography; first camera age 10, first 35mm age 12, darkroom age 13 then it got worse.  Every photography class in junior high as well as summer school, photography and graphic arts in high school and audio/visual technology in trade school.  Every family event or get together John was there to document it.  After graduating he applied for a job at Pako Photography which later became Brown Photo which later became Black’s Photography.  Eleven years in the photo business.  He loved sharing his love of “painting with light”.

So why this long winded explanation for why he doesn't contribute my blog very much.  Simple answer is pasting or inserting photographs into the draft post using Blogger.  It has been very frustrating to him and when he can’t get the draft laid out the way he wants then he has me delete the entry before I can publish it.  On one draft posting he spent nearing two hours inserting one photograph into a paragraph and getting the sentences to wrap around correctly.  Since then he just gave up.

Until he saw Jessica Riker’s latest postings on her blog.  Beautiful photos embedded into paragraphs that helped tell the story Jessica was telling.  John quickly fired off a message to Jessica to learn how she was creating the great layouts and how difficult it was.  Jessica said that she used MS Windows Live Writer.  So John downloaded it and this posting is the result.

John and I both want to thank Jessica for her help and want this to be a renewal of our blog and John’s love of sharing his photographs.