June 2007 – Page 2 – Otis & James Photography

Sometimes I think that we are the luckiest people on the face of the earth. Sometimes, I start typing these blog entries and have no idea what it is that I am about to type. This, is one of those times. If there were to be a critique of what you could call my writing style (the boy named Otis says in a self-deprecating way), it would be easy to identify some frequent techniques that I use in my arsenal of blog.

For example, I started this post off by saying that I thought we were the luckiest people on the face of the earth. This is what you could call a ‘generic opening’, and I use these pretty much all the time. Other gems in this category are: ‘Bliggity Blog, it’s Baby!’, or ‘Are You Ready For Some…(insert type of photographs here)’, and the list goes on and on and on. It’s not that I’m trying to make everything the same, and that I don’t care. Quite the contrary, my friends. In actuality, It’s just a way of me saying hello, albeit in a convoluted way.

You see, I would love to just blurt out statements like, ‘HOLY SMOKES! STEPHANIE WAS AS SWEETLYAWESOME AS COULD BE! WOWZA!’, but that seems to be a little bit over the top, and it seems like I should at least say hello before I start screaming in your face about how much fun we had working with this incredible Senior!

Hey, as long as I’m talking about Stephanie, let me also add that our time with her was filled to the brim with sunshine, rainbows & roses, and we offer MuchLove & ManyThanks to her for stopping down for her Senior Snaps (and for getting ther parfect cell phone pic of her & Suzie!) Well, I think it should now be time for us to focus our energy on looking at her samplesnaps. So, my fellow citizens of BlogLand; sit back, relax, and – Enjoy!

Kristen!

And then, just like that, we find ourselves back in a place that seems oh so familiar. We find ourselves in the area in land of blog that is known as Seniortown. You know, it’s right down the road from Wedding Way & Toddlerville. Seniortown, however, is different than all of these places. The property goes for a little more. The grass is a little greener. You forget just how nice it is until you’ve spent a few months away from it, but once you go back you fully remember just how much you love your summers there.

As we strolled back into your summer abode nestled safely within the confines of Seniortown, the first person that we had over was a lovely lady that goes by the name of Kristen! Ladies and Gents of blogville, I must tell you the stone cold truth. Kristen, as I’m sure that those of you with the sneaky eyes (ed. ‘Sneaky Eyes’ people skip the words and look at the snaps first) already know, was totally and completely wonderous to work with! We at the FunCenter could think of no better person for us to start this epic adventure back into Seniortown with other than Kristen!

OK, I’ve made all of you that still read the words wait long enough – it’s time for us to take these words, pack them away, and get ready to have our minds blown by the awesomeness that is Kristen – Enjoy!

Super Double Top Secret Family Lundeen Post!

I’ve been sitting on some very important snaps for some time now. I was sworn to secrecy. Names were changed, code words were used. Late Nite meetings behind the FunCenter on the fire escape…well…ok…that never happened, but the rest did.

Why, I’m sure you’re asking, was there such a veil of secrecy? Because the Dad part of this family was trying to suprise the Mom part of the family with some absolutely wonderful family snaps! I’m here to report, my close personal friends of blog, that he was successful in his mission. And, we can finally share with you the goods that were got on our mission!

It has been hard to keep from posting these samplesnaps, as they were so totally and completely wonderful, but we were somehow able to do it (mostly because I was under the impression that if I didn’t do this, it would be curtains for me…but as it turned out I had merely misheard the statement, and somebody was actually just discussing getting some new curtains), and now it’s time to pull the veil back, and let you – my formerly in the dark people of blog – in on the goodness that is The Family Lundeen (sans Ma, of course!)

Without any further delay, trickery, tom-foolery, or disguise, I present to you – my goodpeople of the blog, The Family Lundeen – Enjoy!

The Family Woodie!

After a dress rehearsal on a Saturday evening, our Sunday Morning got off to an absolutely wonderous start as we welcomed (with tail between our legs) to the FunCenter (hey kids…remember…since it was the weekend we can call it the Studes! Yay!!) for Fun to get some Good Ol’ Family Snaps (don’t look for this title on any of our brochures, not that we actually have any brochures, but if we did, don’t look for that title to describe any of our services, as the more I look at it, ((and, BTW, for fun, count the commas in this post)), it seems that anything that involves ‘Good Ol’ and ‘Family’ should involve the participants in the photograph to wear old time western clothes, and be photographed in a sepia tone in front of a fake old west bar scene…and I’m here to assure you that none of that craziness took place, no matter how much Jamie wanted to do it)!

Dear random visitors, readers of blog, and full-fledged inhabitants of blogville, I’m here to report the following news: The Family Woodie came to the FunCenter, and they were absolutely wonderful to work with! We knew the offspring of this family were a dream to work with, but this was the first time that we had the great pleasure of working with all members of the fam, and they were all a dream to work with!

I don’t know what their secret is, but on a Sunday morning, they weren’t like me (crabby & haggard), no no, they were bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and ready to turn the charm up to 11! We offer The Family Woodie ManyThanks & MuchLove for being so easy going and wonderful to work with – truly, you were all wonderful (& thank you for being so understanding!) Well, I think it is time for me to quit all of these words, and get to the part all you all have come here to see, the sample snaps! So, to my neighbors in the land of blog, and to anybody else that may be stopping by for a visit – Enjoy!

The Family Knudson (No Cheesy Title Here)!

For about fifteen seconds, I flirted with the idea of giving the title ‘Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch’ to this post, I decided to pass. You see, we have what you call standards around this place. Now, some of you may still be laughing about the whole notion of us having standards around this place, but I swear we do.

You see, we have what’s called an ‘Anti-Cheese Plugin’ installed on the blog. Now, I don’t want to bore all of you out there in your happy little houses of blog with the technical details of this device, but just know that it is always working behind the scenes to ensure that you are protected from any and all things cheesy, with the exception of actual cheese (I love a good cheese…heck…I’ll love any form of cheese…but enough about my personal life, as it’s best left a total and complete mystery to all of you out there), and in this very instance of the whole ‘Mark Mark’ episode as it’s being refered to now, it protected you from the awful mess of cheese that that title would have been. And now, you know. And knowing is half the battle…whoa…I’m sorry…my Anti-Cheese Plugin has just informed me that that whole ‘…is half the battle’ has totally entered the realm of cheese, much apologies. Moving On.

We have had the good fortune of working with the member of this family that most people call ‘Mark’ many times over the past year, and we have met other parts of this family from time to time, but on the evening so nice that seems to be so long ago now that they all came down the Center for Fun, we had the even better goodlyfortune of actually getting to pictosnap the whole of The Family Knudson!

HipHop..Hooray for Pictosnaps! HipHop…Hooray for Family Knudson!

They came, they saw, the conquered all that was FunCenter. They brought their family crest on a flag, dug a hole in the Studio (Studes if it’s the weekend), and, for one evening, claimed it as their own. Dudes, they owned the shoot, and that’s a fact jack. And you know what I’m going to do now? Do you? Well, I’m gonna give MuchLove & ManyThanks to Family Knudson for stopping down (I always say ‘stopping down’…perhaps everyone lives higher than us?), and to you – my good people of blog, I say this – Enjoy!

The Family Spengler!

We here at the FunCenter, we like many things. Things such as cats (well, actually, as it turns out only me & LouLou like cats a whole bunch, & the others range from merely tolerating them to fully disliking them ((some have even said that cats go out of their way to specifically bother them just because them don’t like them…well…perhaps they do, and they only do this because they are just that smart))), doggies named Suze, the internets & twice weekly showers…ummm…perhaps TMI (and even though I’ve done my best to get all of you up to sweetlykool status, there are probably a few of you that would like to know that TMI means ‘Too Much Information’…the more you know, huh?), but enough about us.

Yes, back to the things that we like, and another thing that we like (seriously, my writing was progressing well until I reached the fourth grade, and then it kind of plateaued) is when we have a return superhappyfamily such as The Family Spengler!

(ed. I’m going to break that down for you and let you know that this means it was a return visit from The Family Spengler. Now, back to the rambling from Old Man Otis)

It was a joyously happy time in the world of FunCenter as our old friends lit up the joint (ed. wha?) with their absolutely gorgeous smiles and shining personalities! Time absolutely flew by, and the goodlygoods & sweetlysweets were captured with skill and grace! I’m not quite sure what that means, but let me break it down for you without the assistance from this ‘ed.’ person that keeps cropping up around here – they totally & completely rocked…as usual!

MuchLove to one and all from The Family Spengler for stopping by and giving us a little bit of their sweet time, and to all of my oh-so-patient peeps of the blog – Enjoy!

Month: June 2007

Gage!

Kirsti!

Megan!

Paige!

Stephanie!

Kristen!

Super Double Top Secret Family Lundeen Post!

The Family Woodie!

The Family Knudson (No Cheesy Title Here)!

The Family Spengler!