I just heard some great news from my Living Proof friends at CCBC- our friend Joyce is getting married! We're so happy for her and her husband to be, Albert. Their wedding is going to be July 19th, and we hope that someone will take photos for us so we can see it. :)
The Swavesey Festival ended over the weekend, and I hope to put some photos on here so you can see how interesting and quaint it was. :) The last night they had a band called QED whom I've never heard of, and they played for quite some time. We even had a bandstand with flashing lights and stuff- very exciting. :) People brought their gazeebos and picnic blankets and set up around the other 3 sides of the village green, and were there all day. The strangest part was at the end of the evening, around10:20 (it's still light here very late) when as their ending song they played Greased Lighting, and suddenly all the women jumped up and started doing some sort of line dance! All these random women from like every tent ran out in front of their tents and started doing random forms of dancing- some did that line dance, some just jumped around. It was strange indeed. :) The evening ended with some pretty decent fireworks that went on forever! Plus they like to play music during fireworks shows here- there's nothing like Greased Lightning into Fireworks combined with the X-files theme song. :)
As many of you know I've been slaving away at reorganizing my photo files- all 15000 of them. When I began photography I didn't take the wise advice of my instructor who suggested renaming each shoot and editing the file info right then. I just put them into folders based on the shoot and left it at that. Well the camera rolls over it's counting scheme at 10,000, and that has of course been a problem. :) So I've redone everything, renamed, edited the ownership and copyright info, and used keywords to make them easier to search. I also uploaded about 1000 new photos onto my phanfare site, some I'd forgotten I had! Now that this major project is done I've been looking for new projects to take on, and yesterday I made my first foray into the offical freelance community. Lots of photogs want projects where they can photograph stuff, but the real opportunities are in digital file editing, because most people don't know how and don't want to do it if they do know how. Anyway I wrote up a project bid yesterday and I hope to hear back today on whether I've been successful or not. This is a good one because it's ongoing every week, which gives a steady weekly income. I'm pretty excited about it. I've been taking freelance projects here in town for free, mostly doing things for my friends at STAG just to get the word out and gain experience, and I enjoy it. I did a shoot on a few lesser known Cambridge College buildings in December, and this month I photographed some professional Chinese paintings which a friend of ours has bought as a start to an art import business. He needed the images to send to galleries, and the galleries he emailed them to said they were perfect at showing what the original image is like. I'm going to go round and talk to someone at the gallery about photographing more of their art work and see how that goes. And lastly next week I'm doing a portrait shoot for an American friend who has a book coming out soon, and she needs an author photo. She's concerned about her braces, which I can remove in Photoshop. :)
That's a lot about me, but G is doing very well too, and he's enjoying his work. He had a good conversation with a new guy about fth which was exciting. Nelly is also well, although she is currently angry with me about the antiflea goop I had to squirt on her neck. She has some kind of teeny skin mites that make her scratch in front of her ears, so she has to have this stuff once a month. I bought the natural kind in the US so at least it smells good. But she doesn't like it and she's still giving me angry looks. :)
We're hoping to find a 4th of July celebration here in Cambridge- there are enough Americans that there could be an Americatown here so I'm sure someone is putting something on. :)
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