Sunday, January 13, 2008
Keegan in the house
Some of the "the ladies" come over today at our house before they went out to lunch. Bob ad Keegan hung out with me for a couple hours. Here are some pictures.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
I've updated more of the map
You may want to click on the link towards the bottom of the map that says "view larger map"
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Who wants a safari picture?
Everyone has been telling me how much they like the safari pictures I posted a couple days ago. Thanks for all the nice things everyone has said about them. I'm thinking about having some type of contest or referral program where you can choose one of the pictures you like and I will email the high resolution file for you to have (with the understanding that you can't sell it to anyone or forward it without my permission)... I'm going to have to trust everyone on this one since I can't monitor this :). What if i did something like this... as long as you email my website/blog to 10 people you know and copy me on the email, you can have the safari picture of your choosing (keep in mind it's the high resolution file so if you wanted to blow it up to a poster size you could do that). Let me know what everyone thinks about this idea and I'll see if people have an interest in it. If so, then game on!
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Google Maps
I've been playing around with a tool on google that allows you to customize maps. I thought it would be interesting to mark all of the places I've been. I've only spent about 30 minutes on this so far and I've only really spent time in the U.S. I hope to catalog all of the places I've been in the world. Man I love google. Click below and you can actually move the map around and see the places I've marked up.
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Sunday, January 06, 2008
Saturday, January 05, 2008
more pictures...
I decided to post some more pictures that I put in the calendar. Looking back at these pictures reminds me of the unbelievable trip we had. If you're thinking about going on a vacation, I highly recommend going on a safari. It will cost a lot, probably double of what your normal vacation would run, but it is well worth it. Enjoy the pictures!
Just finished the 2008 Calendar
I just finished the calendar I mentioned a couple days ago and I submitted the order in iPhoto. I'm impressed how easy apple has made it to order products through their software. They've really done a great job at growing revenue by creating services that customer want. The calendar has a cool collage on the cover, but I decided to make the inside pictures focused on my trip to South Africa. Here's what the month of June looks like, which happens to be one of my favorite photos from the trip.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Kirsten and Josh
I did an engagement shoot this morning with Kirsten and Josh who are friends with Kristin and Ben (I photographed their wedding earlier this year). We started out with some skyline shots, but then things got cold, so we went inside to the Lincoln Park conservatory which was a welcome burst of hot air. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the shoot today. As a side note, they have a really nice train exhibit setup in a couple of the rooms which was fun to watch. If you have any youngsters, it would be a nice visit during this time of the year
Steve
Steve
Friday, December 28, 2007
2007 Year in Review
I love the Jib Jab year in reviews they put together. If you haven't seen it already, click here to check it out. It is really, really funny!
JIB JAB YEAR IN REVIEW
Thursday, December 27, 2007
We won something! Or maybe not....
A while back Carolyn entered me in a contest for the best proposal story. If you haven' heard about the proposal, click here to see the post. So a couple weeks back we got an email from brides.com letting us know that our story had been selected. We're not sure if we won anything, but our story is now on their website. Here's a link to their site.
Monday, December 24, 2007
Isabel came over today
We had some fun visitors today. Nick and Nikki brought Isabel over. Here are some pictures... We're off to do some last minute shopping and then we're having dinner this evening at our house.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Macy's
As you guys know, I moved into a new house about 6 months ago and I’ve been working with Macy’s to order furniture for several of our rooms. I’ll start by saying that I’ve always liked shopping at the State Street store. I didn’t think that much would change when it was bought out by Macy’s. Boy was I wrong! Carolyn and I having being trying to resolve a problem with Macy’s for the past month and the process has not been enjoyable. I’ll spare you the lengthy details, but it basically comes to us asking to exchange some furniture within the designated 3 day window, and them saying we didn’t request it. We were even o.k. with paying the 25% restocking fee since the reason for the return was more about taste, not about Macy’s delivering the wrong piece. We’ve made numerous calls to customer service and talked to several managers and they still will not honor the request to exchange the furniture. I’ve never really been the type of person to say that “I’m never going back to the store”, but I’ve reached my limit with Macy’s. Until they resolve things, I’m not going to be shopping at Macy’s. Has anyone had a similar experience with Macy’s? Does anyone have stories of a positive experience with Macy’s? Let me know your thoughts.
Thanks.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Saturday, December 15, 2007
2008 Calendar
I've been working on a calendar for 2008 and the cover is going to be a collage of pictures I took from the year before. Here's what the cover looks like right now.
This weekend is filled with holiday parties. Last night we had about 25 people over to our house for Carolyn's work party, which was a progressive dinner party that went from 3-12. It was a fun time and everyone enjoyed playing dance dance revolution on the Wii.
Friday, December 07, 2007
The best gloves on the planet
I finally found the best pair of gloves on earth. Behold the Uggs winter gloves, in brown of course since that's my favorite color these days. I had to buy a new pair because my other gloves finally kicked the bucket (although the hole on the index finger made it perfect to use my iphone). These gloves are pretty expensive, but I think they're worth it since I'll be using them almost every day. Hopefully these will last for a while.
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Ice Ice Baby...
Wow! I'm finally back to an old fashion blog post. As you can tell, I've recently become addicted to taking pictures with my iphone and having it auto publish. If you want to set this up, you need a Flickr account. Once that's setup, they give you an email address which you can link to a blog account. After that, all you do is email your photos to Flickr and they're automatically published. And it only takes about 30 seconds to do the whole thing.
So if you're in Chicago, you know about the snow/ice/rain we got over the last 24 hours. It was fun to see all the ice form on trees last night. Here are two shots I took from my office window last night.
So if you're in Chicago, you know about the snow/ice/rain we got over the last 24 hours. It was fun to see all the ice form on trees last night. Here are two shots I took from my office window last night.
Saturday, December 01, 2007
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