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Monday
02Nov2009

New Business Cards Have Arrived

I ordered my new business cards from Moo.com the middle of last week. To my surprise, I got a phone call from my wife this afternoon to tell me they had already arrived... seriously? I asked her.

I thought she was kidding because she knew how excited I was to get these new cards. I wasn't expecting delivery of the cards until the end of the week. Needless to say I am very excited and even more pleased with the quality of these new cards.

Here is the info side of the cards, the back of the cards are 50 of my images (4 cards containing each image):

This is actually the design comp. so the grey outline represents the trim line so I knew where the bleed area of the purple would be trimmed.

DateMonday, November 2, 2009 at 9:29PM | AuthorC. Joseph Martin | CommentPost a Comment |
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Saturday
31Oct2009

New Web Host

I finally decided it was time to convert my web site to a better host, one that could also house my blog so I only had one site to maintain. After researching choices I have chosen to go with Squarespace as I really like their ease of site building tools, build in "modules" and the fact that their pricing is decent didn't hurt either.

I am sure there may be better hosts out there, but most of the companies I found that were better came at a much steeper price point. I am finding a couple limitations with the site package I got, but I can always upgrade at any time, so I am not too worried about it.

In the mean time, I will be continuing to figure out all the choices I have to get my site looking and acting the way I want it to.

DateSaturday, October 31, 2009 at 4:02PM | AuthorC. Joseph Martin | CommentPost a Comment |
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Wednesday
28Oct2009

My Portfolio Reaches 150 Photos

With the many photos being uploaded from the recent Mini Lypse, my iStockphoto portfolio has reached the 150 photo mark.

I'll admit, I am a bit behind on the number I wanted to have uploaded for the end of the year, but I am uploading at a more consistant pace these days.

DateWednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10:53PM | AuthorC. Joseph Martin | CommentPost a Comment |
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Wednesday
21Oct2009

We Have Models...

The wonderful inspectors over at iStockphoto are moving at lightning speed and my City Beautiful Lypse model photos are being inspected now.

Here is the first from the Lypse to be inspected and it was accepted:

DateWednesday, October 21, 2009 at 5:45PM | AuthorC. Joseph Martin | CommentPost a Comment |
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Tuesday
20Oct2009

Back from the"City Beautiful Lypse"

We are back from the City Beautiful Lypse, things have calmed down and we are back to life as usual... with 5 and 8 year old daughters, I can assure you, usual not normal is the correct term.

The first batch of processed photos from the mini lypse are now hitting the inspectors and three were accepted this morning. These are the non-model photos I uploaded while waiting on the model releases for the event to come back.

Here is the first image:

DateTuesday, October 20, 2009 at 5:51PM | AuthorC. Joseph Martin | CommentPost a Comment |
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Thursday
01Oct2009

iStockphoto - Download #100

This morning I hit the century mark on downloaded photos at iStockphoto. With currently only 127 photos in my portfolio, I'm happy to hit download #100. Now just 150 more to go before I can become exclusive!

And here is lucky #100 - Role Play Dice

DateThursday, October 1, 2009 at 12:30PM | AuthorC. Joseph Martin | CommentPost a Comment |
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Saturday
08Aug2009

Meet Clarence

All too often as I walk around downtown areas, photographing the sights, I meet a homeless person. This past weekend was no different, what caught me off guard this morning was the politeness of this gentleman.

Once I began talking with him, his story intrigued me. It wasn't any surprise, as I meet more homeless people, to find out he is a veteran. What did really surprise me though, was the gentleness in him and his love for this country that seemly has turned their back on someone that fought for the freedoms most Americans take for granted.

As you can see in his photo, he wears the colors proudly, still carries his military ID and instead of stopping people on the street to ask for money,  steps out of their way to allow them to pass.

I ended up talking with Clarence for a while before I needed to head on my way. Before leaving though, I asked his permission to take this photo, after which I gave him what little money I had on me that day. I rarely if ever carry cash with me, why I had any this day is as much a mystery as why I spent the time I did talking with him. What I can tell you, Clarence and his stories touched me that morning and still do as I think back on that morning.

DateSaturday, August 8, 2009 at 8:55AM | AuthorC. Joseph Martin | CommentPost a Comment |
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Friday
31Jul2009

Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk

On July 18, 2009 photographers around the workd gathered for the Second Annual photowalk hosted by Scott Kelby, my wife and I included.

The were so many great locations to pick around the area we live in Florida, so I picked one in the city I thought that would be the most fun to photograph - St. Petersburg.

Our group gathered at 9am in Struab Park, directly across the street from the entrance to the Vinoy Resort. One of the problems with this mid-morning time slot became evident right away. Directly across from the park was the Marina... cool, I thought, until walking over to shoot... directly at the sun coming up in the east. :(

As we walked into downtown things picked up a little, but I still wasn't seeing anything too impressive. That is until we rounded a building and in a courtyard type opening was a large grass area and a HUGE waterfall. As you can see in the photo, the waterfall is several stories high, sits in the shade of two tall high rise buildings and even in the middle of the day was a nice cool spot to relax.

Further into downtown we came across the courthouse, which held some public artwork on the property surrounding it. The artwork was titled "Face The Jury" and was twelve red "chairs" decorating the yard of the courthouse.

 

DateFriday, July 31, 2009 at 5:20PM | AuthorC. Joseph Martin | CommentPost a Comment |
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Friday
24Jul2009

So you think you're having a bad day...

Before you complain about how bad your day has been, consider this poor young woman and how her day ended.

In my office this afternoon, laminating and trimming covers for a proposal, I started smelling smoke. I looked around the corner of the wall from where the trimmer sits to make sure the laminator, which has a working temperature of 330 degrees, wasn't on fire. It wasn't the laminator.

I opened the back door and the entire back courtyard area of the office building was full of smoke and it seemed to get more dense toward the dumpster. I ran out to make sure something in the dumpster wasn't on fire and it wasn't that either.

As I turned around to head back into the office I saw a plume of smoke rising above the building, coming from out front. I ran out to the lobby to see firemen and police working on putting the fire out as students from the school in the adjacent suite, where this lady was a student, scrambbling to move their cars away from hers.

I was too late to take photos of my own, so coworker Wilma Minor-Davis passed these photos on, taken on her Blackberry Storm, for me to post about. Turns out that coworkers had been trying to page me to take photos of the event, but while trimming and laminating like I was, I always wear my iPod and never heard the page on the loud speaker.

From this day forward, whenever I am at the laminating or trimming stations, you can bet I will only have one ear bud in.

DateFriday, July 24, 2009 at 7:30PM | AuthorC. Joseph Martin | CommentPost a Comment |
Friday
17Jul2009

#100 Accepted

With everything around here as hectic as it has been, I am a couple days behind on posting this, but I have finally had my 100th photo accepted into my iStockphoto portfolio.

Number 100 is this photo taken of my lovely daughter in her cap and gown from graduating her Tiny Tots program. Providing for her and her older sister are the whole reason I am working so hard these days.

In fact, as I post this, I just had four new photos accepted and I am currently sitting at 105 photos in my portfolio.

DateFriday, July 17, 2009 at 10:14PM | AuthorC. Joseph Martin | CommentPost a Comment |
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