Cocoa Crusty

Tonight, I made my first submission to the Flickr Group Roulette group. The theme was Make it Funky!. I submitted this photo and feel that I totally achieved FUNKY!!!

The one you see at the top of this post is an obvious remix of the funky one. I really like it and wanted to share it with all 3.6 of y’all that come to my blog for reasons other than Metasploit and CakePHP!

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Until next time…

I wrote a little bit on my Flickr page yesterday about how I get a bit stir crazy sometimes. I come home from work, change clothes, load my pockets back up, and then sit at the doorway you see above that goes into my garage and wonder where I would go if I did leave the house… It’s pathetic!

I really want to get out of the house more and do some creative photography using different locations and props. I get tired and highly uninspired shooting around the house all the time. This 365 Days project is great for trying to stretch your creativity and get you to at least shoot one shot a day, but man, I need to get out of the house and be inspired again! I need to feel the need to be creative! I have so many ideas in my person but I can’t ever seem to execute on them… But, why?!

I have no wife, no children, no ties to this house or location whatsoever! I should be out and about shooting every time I feel the need. Even if that is 3:30 in the morning! Why not?! Something just overwhelms me about leaving to do that, sometimes. Sounds like I have a new “self cleansing” project to undergo. I’ve got to get rid of all this crap that plagues me and holds me back…

By the way, I like challenges! This will probably be a good one for me to tackle and will obviously push me out of my comfort zone!

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Well, I got some new bedding and some new paint on my walls in the bedroom. I like it! I’ve wanted to start doing some nifty things in my house for a while and have never been motivated to do it. Well, the ball is now rolling…

The bedroom is painted and next is the “Big Bird Palace”, the yellow of all yellow entry ways. That project went real bad real quick… Woops!

Anyway, be looking for more photos coming soon! As always, follow more frequently updated photos of me and others on my Flickr page.

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Dag’s son, Tony a.k.a. TDag, received a wonderful gift for his 16th birthday: the Mustang you see in the photo above! Wow! What a gift!

The Dags spent many months working on this ride. It was built from 2 different Mustangs and a lot of hard work, money, and time. Dag (Sr.) is quite the craftsman when it comes to working on vehicles. He can make anything happen when it comes to fabricating, repairing, customizing, and everything in between that I don’t even know what it is called!

The shot above is one of hundreds I took today of Tony’s car. This one I happened to jump in front of the camera for. I spent a lot of time in Lightroom with this shot and then in Photoshop… I will a couple of shots in another post t show the results from my workflow this evening… More photos to come of the car as well!

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Walking down the street
Distant memories
Are buried in the past forever

Video/Song: Scorpions - Wind of Change

It seems that wherever the wind may blow, it always brings something from behind but also takes us to new places for new adventures. I have had a hard time letting some things go and moving on… This unfortunate trend may continue for quite some time…

I try to keep the positive and joyous things of my past with me and lay the negative and hurtful down. However, sometimes even the positive things of the past remind me of the related negative things I have experienced. This makes it hard to keep the fond memories as close as I would like.

I know new memories can be made. I know new friends are to be had. However, when you have dedicated yourself to a cause for so long, it is extremely difficult to let it be free… A piece of you seems to be permanently attached to that one thing for an eternity…

Letting go is hard to do but is a necessity that must be realized in order to fulfill your calling in life. How can you move forward with anything if you can’t let go of the things that keep you in the past? As hurtful as letting go may be, there is no better time than the present to let the healing process begin…

And, no one said that healing after a true hurt is easy or a pleasant experience… But, it’s one that must be endured in order to allow freshness and new things to transpire within your life…

Sometimes, it is easier to see the positive things on the horizon than others… Sometimes, you just want to curl up and die while others you want to run so far into the future you can’t even look back if you wanted… I think there needs to be a happy coexistence between these two locations so that you can peacefully look back on all the positive experiences you have had and be able to see the fruitful adventures in your presence and on the horizon…

Until next time…