Photos: Boat, Park and Shoes

 Below are a few photos I recently shot.


 The boat at the Heartland of America park in the Con Agra campus.


Shot at the Heartland of America park.


Just some pretty cool shoes. The owner is in the photo set in the link below.

Click the link to view these and other photos in my Downtown/Old Market   Flickr photo set.

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911 call center tour

Last Wednesday (10/20/2010) my son and I met up  with the other scouts and leaders in his scout troop and had a tour of the Douglas County 911 call center. The pic is kinda dark, but so was the call center.

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Thank Goodness Its Friday

Picture taken early morning on Friday October 22. The day proved to be as nice as it looked.

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It just keeps coming

We have been blessed with this beautiful/perfect weather for the last two weeks if not a little longer. Below is a pic of the forecast from two days ago and a picture take out at Boystown yesterday right after I took Rachel to her Dr. Appt.

Chilean Miners rescued

Today they brought up the Chilean miners that were trapped for 69 days. I watched at work in a live pop up window from CNN. It was cool to see the end result.

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Last Farmers Market - 2010

Last Saturday was the last Farmers Market for the year. I went down there around 9 and just hung out and shot a few pics here and there but not a lot of anything really except talking to some really cool people.

Central Eagles vs Creighton Prep

Tonight we are at the Central Prep football game which is being played at Rosenblatt Stadium.

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Now there are four...

Last night I showed my girls how to run the lawnmower and cut the grass. I know this, my son knows it now now the girls do. Now there are four.

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Vala's Pumpkin Patch 2010

Thais past weekend the family and I went to Vala's Pumpkin Patch for our annual pumkin experience. This year we got to take our exchange student Rachel. She had fun as well as our kids. The weather was perfect.

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Just way too nice

I couldn't resist another post of how perfect today is. It is truely a day worth remembering. I can see at least 50 other people enjoying the same.

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Me and two others

Today is about as perfect as a day can get. Only myself and two others roode our motorcycles today... shame, y'all are missing out.

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Mike and Fred

I found this photo surfing around the web this morning, interestingly mundane photo of two of the (to be) most flamboyant entertainers in pop/rock music.

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They Do Exist

I want to give People of Walmart full credit for this photo. This photo just about made me choke I laughed so quick and hard. I am a closet  Big Foot believer and when I saw this, it renewed my hope for 1/10,000 of  a second followed by the gut buster that just about killed me.

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Last week (Thur, Fri and Sat) I shot video at the Omaha Fashion Week. It was pretty fun and all, I have not been around anything like it but it was for sure interesting. Thursday and Friday I shot inside the nightclub where it was being held indoors for the first few nights then Saturday night it was outside under the 10th Street 'bridge' or whatever you want to call it.
Last year is was about in the same place and you didn't have to pay 'really' to see it but this year it was all different with plenty of fences and tents and the runway was about a mile long.
Overall it was pretty fun, I met a couple of cool guys and had a good time. Saturday night was long and I was ready to go when it was all over.

Here are a couple of pics:

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First round of golf

Here is a video I made when I took my son golfing at a little par 3 course here in town. We had fun.



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Trip to lincoln with Rachel

The other day we took our Exchange student to Lincoln to attend one of a few mandatory meetings given by the hosting company. There was a pot luck dinner followed by the meeting. It was a really nice day and we all enjoyed the ride down there. Rachel had fun and she had the chance to meet a few other exchange students.



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Father and Son Golfing

A few days ago I took my son Nathan golfing. We went to a little par 3 course and he had a lot of fun. It was really fun to watch him do well. He took right to it.

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2010 Air Show

A few weeks ago (today is Sep 13, 2010) I took my family to the 2010 Air Show just down the road at Offutt Air Force Base. Details are in the video.


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I took my family to the 2010 Air Show (Aug 28). It was a great day! I've been to a 1,000 air shows throughout my Air-Force-Kid life but this was fun because I was taking my family.
It was sunny and warm and a little breezy. The jets were cool as heck and the kids loved it.

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Pick up Chuck

The other day I took a small trip to go pick up a friend of mine ( Chuck LaRue ) about three hours away from here and bring him back to Omaha. He needed to get back to Omaha to catch a flight to Colorado Springs to see his brother amd sisters.
The drive went well as the weather was picture perfect. We got back to Omaha about three and Chuck got to meet my family and spend the night. I took him to the airport in the morning and away he flew. I texted him the next day, he said all went well and they are all having a good visit.

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Hobo Days in Britt Iowa

Two weeks ago a friend of mine and I went to Britt Iowa to shoot footage for a documentary on the 2010 National Hobo Convention. It was a great time and I learned a ton! I got the idea from a friend whose wife grew up in the nearby area and he told me about the event. I thought it would be interesting and easy access to all the attendees. It was and it was fun. I video blogged over the four days.









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Chuck Walking

I was shooting a documentary in Northern Iowa in mid-August 2010 when this guy shows up in the town we were shooting in. He introduces himself at this 'open mic' set up as Chuck LaRue. He is walking across the US to raise money for ALS research. I met him Saturday with the next day being the last day of the shoot so I asked him to sit down and let me interview him, I think it turned out well.

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Here is my submission to the 'Fstoppers' Behind The Scenes ( BTS ) video contest. The guys that run the site say there are about 60-some entries. Some are fantastic and blow mine away by 10 miles. At least I gave it a go. I had help shooting the video, big thanks to Chris Bridges, I could not have done it without him.

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Happy Birthday and Missing Steps

Today is my little girl's 15th birthday. Happy Birthday sweetie.

Also, the heat is stomping the midwest with humidity!!

We're getting our side steps tore out and replaced, work started yesterday, here's a pic:






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First day of summer 2010

Today is the first 'Official Day' of summer. I woke up to the sights and sounds of a near-thunderstorm and just a few short hours later... clear blue skies and warm sunshine. Hello summer.

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Memorial Day 2010 video

It was a great day, the video shows two things from Monday, a little yard work success and a cookout at a friends house.



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Go for Launch!

This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time.
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It is a series of time-lapse movies of the Space Shuttle being moved into position and launched.

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Jackpot !!

Look at today and the next two, nice and sunny. I guess the reason I put this pic up is that I have never seen 3 suns in a row on the little weather window on my Yahoo home page screen. It looks like some kind of weather slot machine, Sunny Jackpot.




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Here is some video I shot of last night's ride home then the Royals game, I can't stress how beautiful the evening was last night.



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Last night the Wife, kids (daughter's friend and nephew too) went to the Omaha Royals game. It was a PERFECT night. The Royals won 2 to 1 too.




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Last day of school and weekend

Starting Friday May 21, my kids are out of school for the summer.

Saturday night at our friends house: My daughter riding the little 70cc motorbike.


Same bike, with my son riding. He was killing it, once he got the hang of it he was on it for 15 minutes making great turns (after one turn that included a privacy fence bump) and a little hot-dogging.


Friday night... Famous Daves !! Oh yeah!


Friday after I picked up my son from school (my daughter went home with a friend and spent the night) we went down to the river front. My son rides his bike while I shoot video and take photos. This night I was practicing shooting video with my new Nikon D5000.



Here is my son's school with all the kids lined up for the 6th graders to make their walk to all the applause. It was kind of touching.


My son right before the 6th graders walk.



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Farmers Market, May 22, 2010

Here is the third video I made for the 2010 Farmers Market season. It was a much warmer morning along with a good amount of wind but that was not a deterrent at all, there were a good number of people attending.

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Why you shouldn't let pet drive.

This is just too precious... Karla snapped a picture of her dog Pinky, "driving". We know dogs can't drive cars but Karla was just having a little fun. 10 minutes later she got into an accident and we (at least I am) can assume it was her fault and since she mobile-posted it on Facebook, we can also assume everyone was OK.
Hmmm... can we also assume that she allowed the dog to become enough of a distraction as to cause the accident, I think so. What if someone had been killed? Would it have been worth it to bring Pinky for the drive, no.
Don't be Karla.


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2010 Boys State Soccer Champ game

Last night we all went to the Boys High School State Championship soccer game. The game was just down the street from our house at Creighton University's Morrison Field. It was an absolutely perfect evening (whole day as well). Lincoln East ended up winning the game over Omaha South 4 to 2. The game was tied 2 to 2 at regulation end and was decided in the two overtime periods.

This is right before half time.


This is right before the first overtime period. Lincoln East is the nearest team with South High at the further end.



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Catfishing

The other night we were at my son's baseball game when a friend of ours came over and talked with us, my wife went to school with his wife, they're BFF's.
He was on his way home to gear up and take his kids out the the Platte River and drop some catfish lines. He invited my son and I to go along, we did.
To make the story short, it was a wonderful evening and it all worked out great.

Below is a picture from the river bank a little bit after we got there.


Here is nearly the same shot just after dark, if you look close you can tell that the lower bright light in the center of the photo is the moon showing crecsent and a planet (we were guessing Venus) above and to the right. The photo does not portray the amazing-ness of seeing it in person. The rest of the moon (the dark part) was really dark red. At one point my son said "I've never seen so many stars", I've told my kids that we need to get away from the city light and get to the middle of nowhere sometime so they can see just how many stars there are to see.


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Graduation 2010

My wife graduated this weekend with her Masters Degree from Creighton University. She got her Bachelors there as well (she's so smart).
Below is the hooding ceremony the day before the BIG graduation at the QWest center.
The hooding ceremony was really nice and intimate.
(by the way... that is not her on the stage)

Congratulations Lisa !





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Mother's Day Eve - 2010

We went shopping the night before Mother's Day last week. Here is my son posing next to one of the many "Jane Doe" sculptures spread around town.
Yes, my son is in his baseball uniform and it is later in the evening. Funny thing... the way that this day worked out was it was so dang busy that my wife and I got to running around all crazy-like and at one point my son was set to get picked up from a church activity and go to his game. He decided to skip the game and stay at the activity but kept his uniform on all day and night. I wish I was still a kid in a baseball uniform. He had a fun day.
Oh, by the way, we bought 'Pork Rib Eyes' and I grilled them the next day. They were a little beyond AWESOME !!!!




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Baseball and Blue Skies

Last night (Tue, May 4) I was at my son's baseball game. It started out a picture perfect night but got a little cloudy but no storms or anything. One bragging point: my son was pitching when he made all three outs in the bottom of the last inning helping them win 6 to 3. He struck out the first two batters and threw out the third.



Here is what the sky looked like at the beginning of the game.


This is what the sky looked like this morning (Wed, May 5 (Cinco de Mayo Dayo)). If you look real close just left of the middle you can see the moon.


This was the view looking out of the window in the break room at work just before I went out for lunch. Beautiful !!



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Monday afternoon I took my son to Elmwood park to mess around. I had just got rained out mowing and went home after 3 of 6 yards. As soon as I got cleaned up and came downstairs the skies cleared up and all was sunny and perfect outside, go figure.
Anyway, we went and got a bite to eat then went to the park, we played a little frisbee then he rode around on his scooter while I sat and sketched and listened to the radio.




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First Farmers Market of 2010

I got the opportunity to shoot 10 videos for the Omaha Farmers Market this year. Below you should see the video of the the first shoot from the other day being May 01, 2010.
The day turned out to be PERFECT. Thre were so many people and vendors selling such a variety of items.

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A week and a half ago I shot some video at Elmwood Park where the Earth Day celebration was happening.



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The name of this fine morning is Tuesday. The last few days have been cloudy and cool. I spent the last 2 hours of yesterday's work day working in the rain and cold (I could see my breath). Today and the next few days are supposed to be much better.
In just a few short days we are having the occasionally-annual garage sale for the Church kids summer camp. My garage is packed with donations from people. Our main floor is pretty stuffed as well. This Saturday will be just about the busiest day of the year. I'm also starting a video-taping contract with a local promotional firm that runs every Saturday through October. That same day we have the Sale (lots of set up), video taping, drum lesson, baseball pictures, baseball game and I'm working the snack shack at the baseball field for 2 hours before the baseball game. Whew !!!

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