Happy Father's Day

It's Father's Day and I am so happy to have many fathers in my life. These are my natural father, spiritual fathers and the fathers of my friends who have adopted me as their own. To those dads, (My own dad, John William Key, Sr., Lovell Turner, Pastor Charles Warner, Pastor John Hammond, Gilbert Dodson, Richard Dodson, Raymond Martin & Rosie Holman, I say I love you and I wish you a happy Father's Day.

For some, this day is a day of sadness and heartache. Their fathers are not here to celebrate another year. I lost my uncle recently and he had children my age and younger who miss him so much today. It is especially hard since their mom also died a few years prior to their dad. I was going through some pictures from the funeral and came across these. I wish for them the peace of God that passeth all understanding. It's hard, but I hope it gets easier as time passes. I can't tell people how to feel because I am not in the same boat. I am thankful that today I got to hear my dad's voice and hear his laughter. They weren't able to do the same. In tribute to my uncle, the father of my cousins, I remember him with these pictures. I love you guys. We are family and I hope we stay close and don't drift too far apart.

Page Neglect

Ok, no use in denying it. This page has gone onto the back burner. I recently joined Meetup.com and connected with some other photographers in Sacramento. We are all from many different stages in photography, from amateur to very seasoned professional. I love it because I can access so much photo knowledge. I also post my stuff to Flickr.com so this kind of slipped. I imagine that I will probably go back and forth between updating this page with new pictures to letting it slide because I've gotten so busy with other stuff. I wonder if other people do the same thing? They must because I see other blogs with the last update over a year ago!

My husband has a blog and he updates it regularly (every day!) with very witty stuff. He's super intelligent, so it's continually surprising that we're not rich. I'm very smart too, but I guess I'm also very lazy. Not a good combination if you want to get rich!

I have got to learn this photo thing more. I really wouldn't mind making some money with it, but I have to start getting money shots. I'm hypercritial of my own work, but I am also well aware of other work that sells, and my stuff doesn't quite make the grade. I have noticed that a nice mat can make all the difference in the world to how someone perceives your work. Put a print in front of them and they say, "Ah, that's nice." You put a print that has been mounted or dare I say, mounted and framed, and they look at it differently. I don't know why, it's just what I've noticed.