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Yearly Update

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:43:00 GMT

Noticed I hadn't updated much since November 2007.
I have, actually, just not here.

It's all HERE
http://ebphotography.com/blog

So, do you guys have myspace?
http://myspace.com/ebphotography

Or FaceBook too?
http://ebphotography.com/facebook

Happy Christmastime.

jonesing for travel

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:05:10 GMT

The sun is brightening the apartment and my alarm just went off... no time for a nap before work.

I'm awake earlier than I want to be. Sara got up for her 8am shift and I somehow woke right up after a long wedding day shoot and hour drive home last night. I fell asleep sitting on the couch while backing up my photos and recharging everything for today's out of town shoot in Indy. I'm thinking donuts sound good and I should probably kick a pot of coffee into drip while it's on my mind. Nah.

Fall is near. A best friend moved to Germany and already visited Prague. For you non-geography buffs (or me who is kinda lost with Euro-geography) Prague is in another country. So he's been to two countries in 2 days. Weasel. That travel bug bit him good while living on the west coast. Can't say I blame the guy.

I went to leave Jon a comment on his Pragueventure and realized it's been all of 7 years since I was in Europe. I've been having travel nostalgia flashbacks this week. I left my iPod hidden away somewhere after the last Underground Cafe show and needed music so I got out my battered CD walkman I scuffed up throughout Scandinavia and Asia. Works like a charm. (What exactly do charms do anyway? How do you know when they're working? Don't they just... dangle from QVC / Home Shopping Network bracelets? How's that called "work"?)

I've been recounting my Sweden trip often recently. Whenever people act surprised that a person could uproot and move out of the country in "such short notice" I have to laugh. Almost all my international trips after graduation (high school, mind you) were arranged in spontaneity. It's nothing foreign to to me to have little notice before leaving. It's part of the excitement, and it helps to keep the reality of exactly what you're doing delayed from setting in right away. In a good way. You'd probably freak out if you thought it all through at once.

I think I've been reliving or at least remembering my great travel memories through Jon's own recent incredible "short-notice, awesome opportunity, always wanted to do this" kind of travel. I couldn't be happier for the guy, but I have to say being in the middle of it all again has really stirred up my own travel bugs.

Before I get too wistful for Scandinavia in the fall.... mmmm... Sweden... crisp air and coffee.... chocolate... soup... dang I did it anyway. Before I get too distracted with travel nostalgia, I'm gonna start that coffee and make a respectable breakfast for this big day ahead.

Moral of the story - if you can get out and travel, GO.
You won't regret the experience.
You will, however, itch to do it again soon.

our first ultrasound! it's a...

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:04:10 GMT

It's a... baby. Plain & simple.

This week we went for an ultrasound... found out some exciting news. I figured I'd leave a link that all our xanga friends could find the news, even though I'm not keeping this blog too current. Click the photo or CLICK HERE to view our "don't have to have an account to leave me a comment" blog on our site. It's fun.

eB

portraits with Pearl and Family

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 02:56:44 GMT

We began last weekend's 4 shoots in 4 days marathon when we met up with Pearl and her family for an easygoing portrait session along the Niles, Michigan Riverfront.It was a little rainy but it made for great soft light and Pearl had a smile and an umbrella till the session was wrapped up.We met Pearl in November 2005 when her Daughter Dominique was married in South Bend. It's great to catch up with newlywed friends and see familiar faces again!Many of the younger ones at Saturday's portrait session were junior bridesmaids, flower girls or ring bearers in Dominique's and her cousin Dakia's wedding in the last 2 years. All were photogenic as ever for their outdoor portrait session.Click a photo or CLICK HERE to see the entire gallery. Enjoy!eB

eB engagement :: Jessica & Kyle

Thu, 17 May 2007 18:32:17 GMT

What a great evening out at Notre Dame campus with Jessica & Kyle. The day before a gust-nado (strong gusts but not quite a tornado) that swept through campus and knocked over trees, branches, and a spire off the top of the Basilica. Things were pretty tidied up as we walked the campus.

With not even a cloud in the sky until we were done, it was a great day out with a fun couple!

Click an image or CLICK HERE to view the slide show.

eB weddings :: Danae & Chris

Mon, 14 May 2007 04:07:51 GMT

Happy Mother's Day everybody! What a weekend!

Sara and I met up with Danae and Chris in Koontz Lake for another perfect May Saturday afternoon. With plenty of sunshine and plenty of smiles, it was a fantastic afternoon together.

More great photos in the slide show. Click a photo or the link below to see more!

Enjoy!

Click a photo or CLICK HERE to see the slide show!

travel updates

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:49:36 GMT

while on the road I'll be updating a much more interesting site... my travel page:

ebphotography.com/travel

Click and feel like you're on the road too!

eB

truck cab wagons west

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:58:01 GMT

here it is xanga friends: an update

my usual photo update blog has moved:
http://ebphotography.com/blog.htm
will show you the updates you seek

Here it is: the quintessential and perhaps obligatory road trip of a lifetime. You know, the ones you dream about as a teenager about to graduate high school? Or maybe the college graduate about to enter real life and a career? Maybe it's your last big to-do before your wedding? I'm checking (D) - none of the above.

Make that "the road trip of a 20-something newlywed self-employed college student's stateside travel opportunity." A drive west through the plains, hills, and mountains of the great (north) American landscape in a quest for travel miles and a hoorah before the busy season kicks in all around me.It's been 6 months since my last long drive to Tennessee with my wife for our honeymoon. It's been 4 years since my last trip farther than big city Chicago or lakeside Michigan destinations that involved a flight home.

Planes, trains, and automobiles will be boarded in no sequential order. Midweek I'll meet up with fellow camera store escapee / photo nerd / MacGuyver fan / storywriter / traveler Jon in the Windy City to hit the road and drive his truck west to his new business locale in Oregon. Pretty sweet deal that his company is moving him there to photograph a bunch of locations along the left coast this spring. Rather bittersweet is the move westward from the hometown friends and a sweetheart in Wisconsin, the Dairy-Air State.

So then, adventures as they are, I haven't jumped into a flight path or a train route in the States since I visited some friends in North Carolina back in '03 and before that I was on the road / rails / air in Southeast Asia, my second home for my late teens and early 20s. I've only flown to Phoenix, Arizona for a convention downtown and never got out to see sights out west. Driving I'll see the landscape better, catch up over a week's time as we head nearby some of the famous National parks out that way and settle in to Portland and see the sights a day or so before... the flight back. (I'm up to drive it one way, but I got a wife waiting to see me too you know!)

Excited, tired, and not yet packed - these are the ingredients to an unforgettable trip if ever I remember one.

eB

Attention CCS / LeSEA friends - Kevin Ferguson Funeral Info

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:44:58 GMT

This is for all my CCS / LeSEA friends and church family far & wide. If news didn't reach you already, Kevin Ferguson passed away last week. The viewing is later today, Sunday, January 14 from 2-6pm at Palmer Funeral home on Michigan & Chippewa across from Calvary Temple Church and the funeral is Monday at 11am at Trinity Evangelical Free Church on Miami Road.

I got a text message last Wednesday to tell me the news from one of the guys that goes to the youth group where Kevin's oldest son John is a pastor in the youth department. From what I've heard from my family and friends, no one had heard from Kevin in a few days and John had the police break in to his home to check on him. They found him in a chair with a Bible in front of him and he had already passed away. They suspect health problems with his heart or diabetes but nothing has been said officially aside from "natural causes." I don't know any more than this so please don't ask me, but do send up a prayer for John, Mikey, Sarah and their mom Irma and family.

I've known these guys since they moved to South Bend and I went to school with John since 3rd grade... roughly 18 years. If you've been around CCS for any length of time you've run into these guys at any given function, outreach, missions trip, or cafe concert night. Though I haven't worked with John in a youth meeting like we did for years since the church split and he was let go, I was glad I had the last saturday of September off to attend his wedding, and he and his fiance (now wife!) attend mine. Mikey has been in my middle sister Aliya's class from k5 though graduation and Sarah has been a friend of my youngest sister Genna since... they could talk. Irma was mom to youth group kids, her tough love earning her the affectionate nickname, Irmanator.

Please join me in supporting them any way you can through this loss. Your prayers are coveted for them, and if you can make it I know how much it means to have the support of friends through a death in the family. eB

prayer request for our neice Carly

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:15:52 GMT

As I'm in the midst of editing photos, I'm asking all the believer types out there to send out a prayer for our neice Dawn's newborn baby Carly. Carly was born on December 29th, 2006 and my wife Sara went to Memorial Hospital for join her oldest sister's oldest daughter for her second C-Section delivery.

Carly was flown to Riley Children's Hospital in Indy a few short hours after being delivered when doctors discovered she was having difficulty breathing and was not getting enough oxygen in her blood. Carly's father, Brian, drove to Indy right away while her mom Dawn was stuck recovering from the c-section in South Bend.

Sara holding our new neice Carly, 12/29/06

Carly has been in Riley since her birthday and her mom Dawn was there once she recovered from her c-section. Carly has had been recovering from an infection that has delayed a heart operation to connect blood vessels to let her heart the oxygenated blood as it should. (Even after helping Sara study for her college anataomy classes I'm not completely sure what is wrong or what needs to be fixed, but I know that Carly and the doctors caring for her need our prayers!)

Carly will undergo her operation this Thursday morning and Sara will join her Neice and family in Indy to support them.

Please join me for just a short moment to ask our Heavenly Father God to watch over, heal, and bring peace to Carly and her family. My own ears were healed from near deafness when I was 10 and I know I believe in a God of love, mercy, and miracles. Thanks for your prayers.

Eric & Sara B