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Just venting...I'm usually the guy smiling ear to ear and positive, but I need to get this out to make it real and move on to the acceptance phase. As cliche as it sounds,  "Carpe diem" is my life motto as well as "Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan. Basically, I grab life by the horns and through effort and will; I make things happen and I create opportunities. While I never need a reminder that this is how I live my life. Some things make it all the more real, urgent and reenforces the need to be proactive. So I got some ne...

Well I feel rather refreshed now that I have been chillin' in Chi-town the last few weeks. I thought I was just going to go to ALA and just shoot when I felt like it. For some strange reason, I decided to post a schedule for night shoots on cosplay.com. Between that and talking to a few people I worked with a little at PMX, I now have approximately 12 to 13 shoots planned.  I must be crazy, well more like a controlled excited crazy. I've got some new gear to test out (from Santa) and some new techniques to try out so it should be a fun and educational experience.Too bad my Friday is all booked up, 'casue I wanted to check out the speed dat...

"Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?" - Eliza DushkuThis is one of the motto's I live by. It's hard to believe it's a little under a year since I started photography, let alone, cosplay photography. My first shoot was with :iconzokushou: and :iconwaterpuzzle: at SacAnime in January of this year. I've taken a lot of pictures this year, but I've also made a whole lot of mistakes! I worked with this photographer who said he got to where he was in his career by shooting, shooting and more shooting. He reminded me that he has taken probably over a 100,000 pictures and that amounts to 999,900 mistakes! So he was reall...