Things are really starting to roll along on my new website. Have you made the change in your feed readers? Check it out!
March 2, 2009
NEW SITE!
Hey Friends…
I’m moving along once again. If you’ve got your RSS readers set to check my blog you might want to make a change.
Check out the new site at www.jpreding.com.
It’s sweet!
March 2, 2009
Whirlwind weekend
If you been following me on Twitter, you know that KB and I took a whirlwind trip to Ft. Worth this weekend to photograph. My Sister-in-law, Haley, was generous enough to brave the wind and the cold and model for me in her wedding dress. It was a fun and very quick shoot that ended with a very chilling wind! This last picture was taken as the sun was setting. I had on a fleece and another coat and Haley braved the elements in her wedding dress.
I’m having a blast looking through all the images and I will post more soon.
The other reason I went down to photograph was for the Bryson Family. The Brysons were a great group, seven in all, and we spent an hour frolicking through the Botanical Gardens there in Ft. Worth. Here is the first shot of the afternoon with them.
KB and I had a lot of fun with everyone this weekend! We made it back to Amarillo shortly before midnight and were so glad to fall asleep in our memory foam bed.
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A funny moment… my nephew asked KB and I at church if we were moving to Texas! Hard to believe, but though far away from Ft. Worth, Amarillo is still Texas. The lady in the row in front of us heard my nephew ask the question and immediately turned around during meet and greet excited to welcome someone from outside of Texas who may be moving. …. not the case 
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Also! I’m working on a new website so for all of you who track my blog through RSS readers be prepared to change the source of the feed soon! It’s going to be neat!
February 25, 2009
Twitter?
Hey guys, thanks for the encouragement I’ve been getting lately on my photography. It has been fun to play around and really learn my new camera.
Just wanted to put myself out there completely and confess that I’m joining the Twitter bandwagon and that I need help… I just signed up and I don’t know how to use it quite yet, but I’ve already learned some neat things about my friends.
I’m thinking that I will be posting some short updates on Twitter a little more regularly than my blog for the time being so if you are on Twitter hit me up… twit me or tweet me… whatever. Let me know if you are on Twitter.
I’ve got some great opportunites coming up so look for new pictures!
February 20, 2009
Unexplainable
I can’t figure out what it is about this “work of art” that draws me repeatedly. Perhaps it is my amazement that people are constantly stopping to take the short walk in to a cattle field to gaze upon and add their spray painted mark to the monument. Technically speaking, monument is not the right word. This icon is solely the work of strange beauty in a few people’s mind.
I’ll admit that I Googled “Cadillac Ranch” and delved into the depth of potential knowledge in Wikipedia to try to understand something that is unexplainable.
It really befuddles me to admit that I have been to this site a half dozen times (sometimes without stepping out of my car) to wonder at this mystery. Only once was I alone at the site, and then my solitude was interrupted within a 5 minute stay by some tourists of Amarillo or I-40, I’m not entirely certain. People are always stopping each time I attempt to go here.
Today I pressed on again to snap a few more photos… although the subject today was less the Cadillac’s and more the Amarillo Sky. The wind was light and breezy today and the temperature on the bank sign said 57 which is pleasant with bright sunshine and puffy clouded skies. I got off work during the mid-afternoon while KB and all other normal people are still at work so I ran home and grabbed my camera (braving the little amount of battery left in the tank) and I threw on a wide angle lens hoping to capture what had been an absolutely splendid display of the Simpson’s Cumulus Clouds.
By the time I got there the multitude of giant puffy clouds had moved on but there were still some remnants that left me in wonder of it All. Anyway, to bring a rather pointless story to an end, today was a beautiful day here in Amarillo and I wanted to share it with you all. The sky had this awesome natural gradient from deep rich blues to the lighter haze of the dusty fields. It was pretty sweet. Enjoy.
February 16, 2009
feeling funky
Sparing the details and color of my body’s physical state, it will suffice to say that I am simply feeling funky.
Funky with an appetite for 2. It’s my day off. KB’s at work. I’m at home and I am a munch monster who has created a good deal of work for himself in the area of dishes.
While trying to move my mental state of being from funk to spunk I have been listening/watching photography podcasts & vodcasts. One had spectacular images of silky waterfalls and instead of being discouraged by the fact that Amarillo has very little water, I decided to create my own silky waterfall.
Weird, I know. But, enjoy. 
