the blog

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souvenirs to cherish for always

Welcome to the blog! 

posts as far back as 2009

I hope you enjoy perusing stories and images from the last several years. It is well saturated with animal and travel photos. The blog was a passion of mine for quite some time but in 2016 I took a break. Glad to finally be back!

a day recapped

phew. back to a normal form of posting. and yahoo, 2 posts in 1 day! I have been messing around all day on flickr and photoshop and learning quite a bit. Flickr isn't the scary beast it once was,...

snipit from my birthday and flickr

1_31, originally uploaded by photo*guru. howdy! it seems funny to me that under most circumstances i would consider myself a pretty technologically savy person. With flickr, however, I am NOT! i...

My Drive To Work

You have to admit with this picture, my drive to work looks quite beautiful. Well, don't be fooled. I drive on the beltways of Minneapolis ... 100 to 494 and then the left lane of 494 alllllllll the...

Wordle.net

Because this is so cool i am counting this as my photo for the day. SOOOOO COOOL!!! I had seen it before but never have had anything to type in it so...... here is the text of 'Who Am I?' from my...

flickr

i decided... first: I am going to post my 365 project on flickr to maybe help keep me going. I will stay super organized and so on BUT we'll see because, second: i hate flickr. I don't like their...

longest work day ever…

Today I am pretty sure is the longest day ever. No matter what the sun and solstice tells me, today is the longest. I have been editing photos most of the day for my 365 project. I am having fun,...

Carefree, AZ

As I sit here staring out the slightly frozen window, I actually have mixed feelings about AZ. It was beautiful as well as totally WONDERFUL to be away from the cold, snow and ick for a few days,...

ideas, ideas, ideas

I got back late last night from Digital Imaging USA and DWF. It was very insightful! I worked at WHCC's booths {which by the way, were super sweet! We had a double decker booth at one, that you...

I'm Still Here!

I have been seeing that phrase all over the blogging world. It seems that the holidays sucked us all in. And I think rightfully so. I needed a bit of a vacation! We lucked out at work by getting 2 -...

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