Category: Musings

At Otis & James, it is our goal to slowly find our way into our clients photographs.
One client at a time, until our goal is achieved.
That’s the Otis & James difference.

I am ready at a moments notice to sing at any wedding.
I have prepared a repetoire of hits, such as “I Will Always Love You” as well as any number of songs by Journey.

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Image ©2005 M. Bieri Foundation for Pretty Singing

We have a sweet office – you could search previous posts and find some pics of it if you like. But today, this thing is an oven. As much as I love the ‘character’ and ‘old-fashioned charm’ of it, the lack of climate control makes our authentic 1930’s office just a little too realistic. It’s one thing to wonder what people did before air conditioning, it’s another to gain first-hand knowledge.

If you happened to be one of the clients that visited us today, you were all good souls for joining us in our pseudo-sauna. As a reward, we present to you two photographs of ourselves. Feel free to print these out and put them on your fridges.

It’s the least we can do, and really, shouldn’t most businesses strive to always do the least they can?? Yes…yes they should is the answer I came up with.

Seacrest Out.

This is kind of a post-script from our adventures last week. Jamie had the pleasure to visit regular blog poster Reba in Washington DC.

Here’s a photo

Jamie took this lovely photo of an important building. Isn’t it nice! But then Reba came back to North Dakota and got her hair cut.

Here’s a photo.

This post is classic because it is occuring well over a week after the actual visit to DC, and it has no story or message. It’s just an excuse to put these two pics up.

Enjoy!

otis out

Got the guided tour of the Mayo today – crazy impressive. My Ol’ Budd Bri showed me his research area:

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He does stuff that I couldn’t even begin to explain, other than to say thank God that he’s doing it.

He then gave me the guided tour, during which I took some pics. In this age of heightened security awareness, it has become increasingly difficult to take photographs in public places without feeling like there are at least three people that have dialed 91 – and are just waiting for you to do something crazy before they hit that last ‘1’. You gain something, and you lose something. Here’s some of the stuff that was there. That was the worst sentence that has ever been in the blog.

Enjoy!

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All Images ©2005 Otis & James Photography

The tour has stopped in Rochester – just in time to spend Father’s Day with my old buddies Bri & Vic – and their (not so new but new to me) son Logan! To beat the heat, the family played in their new pool – which Brian keeps at an invigorating 48º.

Here’s some pics – enjoy!

All Images ©2005 Otis & James Photography

We finally found a hotel with a room. It’s right by my favorite place, The Mall of America!! Here’s the view from our room window:

I’ve heard good things about the store, but there’s no time to shop. I’ve got to get out of here and down to Rochester, but I thought that I would tell you about our morning. You see, James left on a jet aero-plane this morning, to visit one of our favorite blog-posters, Reba! Her flight left at 7AM, so we had to get her there around five.

On our way there, we had the crazy experience of driving right by some sort of a crime scene (or so the yellow tape said). As it goes, we saw a lot of flashing lights and cars parked outside of a hotel near the Mall. We proceeded with caution (as we had to keep going down the street to get to the freeway), and as we were directly across from this scene, we looked over and saw that there was actually a dead body covered with a sheet mere feet from our car. Straight out of an episode of CSI, or Law and Order, right there as real as could be.

It was totally surrreal. There was this glorious light of sunrise bathing everything – but where did it end for this soul that was covered on the sidewalk? Did the darkness of a Saturday night stay too long, was it at the hands of another, or was it just their time? I have seen many sunrises, many on the tail end of nights that lasted too long, but none like this. Crazy.

Well, I still managed to get James off to the airport, and then returned to the hotel to bring you this post. I’m off momentarily to Chesterville, and I will bring more news from there.

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(actual state sizes may vary)

We had grand intentions of spending the night in St. Cloud, but there was no room for us (something about some athletic events and country music – big weekend for the area.) We did manage time to stop by a relic of the past, Loso’s Main Street Pub, in St. Joseph.

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In another life, in another time. Let’s raise a toast the the Electric Bridge, and to Balls of Steel. Keep the dream alive!

That’s it for this cryptic post.
Otis Out

We spent the night at the house of Bailey, Ali and Elise. They were kind enough to house the Otis & James Caravan of Love, and for that we say a big thank you!

In addition, we also had the pleasure to dine & drink with Robb & Caley – visit them at Robojack Studios. Their work is phenomenal – if you happen to be near Grand Forks this coming weekend, be sure to visit Robb at the Grand Cities Art Fair. He’ll be at booth T-21.

Here’s some pics of Bailey and Elise – Meow!

A little bit of the lake, compliments of Otis & James & Ringo.

Enjoy Becky!

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All Images ©2005 Otis & James Photography
or, are part of a Photo I Portfolio – whichever.