Ok, Let the sorting begin

Leo and I finished shooting the last two models yesterday. Wow, what a great bunch of girls we had to work with. I want to personally thank all of them for their time. Now we have to start bickering over which shots make it into the calendar. :) Fun stuff.

Yesterday we shot Stephanie and Kristen on a blue S4R and a Red ST3 on loan from Ducati Seattle. I'll have photos up in the gallery here soon.

Out with the green, in with the new model galleries

Alright, the ugly green background on my new gallery installation is outta here and I've uploaded some shots of the 5 models Leo and I have shot so far for the Desmo Nortwest calendar we're working on.

There's Jamie, the dancer



Erika, the actress



Leah, the painter



Eliza, the Illustrator



and Mariko, the student

New Gallery Installed

Ok, it's installed but I haven't tweaked the template yet so it's all ugly and green at the moment. Eww. I'll fix it all up this evening. Right now it's time to work on the gazebo some more. It's really nice outside.

Cleanup, Isle 5 & Splinter in the Eye

So we waited around half the day for the cleanup crew to arrive but they finally did. They worked for a couple hours shovling up all the dirt. They even brought in a front-end loader to cart it all off. Then they washed the street down with a huge tanker/sprayer. It looks great out there now.

Cam really liked watching the loader and tanker truck. One of the construction crew even let him use his push broom. It was very cute.

I got some work done on the gazebo yesterday with Doug's help. We got the roof framed up and started putting the first row of slats on. Then I got a HUGE piece of sawdust in my eye and that pretty much finished me off for the night. Ouch!

I know, "big baby", you're saying. It's surprising how delicate eyes are! Usually I can just wash out my eye under the tap and everything's fine but not this time... Oh no, not this time...

I tried dunking my head in a bowl of water and rolling my eye around. Didn't work.

So, I ended up going to the drug store to get an eyewash kit. Tip for you all: buy one of these and keep it in the medicine cabinet. This worked like a champ. It's basically a bottle of saline and an little plastic eye cup. Fill up the cup with the solution and press it up to you eye. Tip your head back and flush out your eye. I did this 3-4 times and wow, that's much better. :)

Rain & Yardwork

We had quite the flash flood storm here yesterday. Our street was an inch deep in running water and our back yard was flooded. Yikes!

It receeded pretty quickly but it's still soggy in the back yard. The new development going in up the hill from us is to blame for all the mud and gunk in our street. They deforested the green belt up there. There's no surprise all the water ran down our street. Our neighbor called the developer and they're supposed to send out a clean up crew.

If it dries out some today I'm hoping to get some work done on the gazebo.

DesmoNorthwest Calendar Shoot

Leo and I are full swing into shooting the DesmoNorthwest calendar for 2005. Here's a photo of the Ducati 998 Matrix bike from Ducati Seattle. Don't mind that lightbox in the reflection.... This is just a test shot. :)

Gallery 1.4.4 now Available!

Gallery 1.4.4 now Available! :: Gallery :: your photos on your website

Cool! A new version of Gallery is out. Time to upgrade....

Paige Bianca LaPlante - 2 days old

So, hello, an interesting photo-based IM client integrates pretty easily with Blogger. I posted Sara's photo with it. Automatic resizing and other stuff. Neat.

So, I'm trying out LiveJournal too. Here's the URL: http://www.livejournal.com/users/artargent/

Sara, the Day Before

Here's a photo of Sara the day before she had Paige. :)

Paige

My wife and I had our daughter on Wednesday! I'm so excited! She's only 2 days old and very strong. She can even lift her head up by herslef. What a joy! She has dark hair like me but my wife's little nose.

We had a rough night last night. Every baby is different and she's definitely different than our son who is 2 now.

So, is Blogger cool..

Or should I use Movable Type or maybe LiveJournal? Hmmmm...

First Post

Ok, I've given in.... I've started blogging. We'll see how this works out for me. I'm not much of a conversationalist. Besides, I can't imagine who would want to read what I write.