Notes from the Studio
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7302009
Air Conditioning
The air conditioner for the server room was finally installed today. It may not look like much, but it’s going to make everyone happy. For those of you that have been in my studio, you know the servers made a lot of noise—I had to keep the door off the room because the servers were so hot. Thanks to the air conditioning, the door could be reinstalled. What a difference! Now it is nice and quiet in the studio.
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7282009
Casual photos
Before I had kids I would take time to go out and photograph for myself. The joy of this was I had lots of time and no pressure. Now that I have kids, it’s really hard to find the time to shoot for myself. I see lots of things that I want to stop and photograph but with kids, I have other agendas. The other day, we were at a fair and I wanted to spend the time walking around photographing but I had to be a dad and enjoy the rides with my kids. Don’t get me wrong, I love the rides! We found one roller coaster with no lines and no adults allowed so the kids rode it over and over again. This gave me about 15 minutes to photograph the things right in front of me. It wasn’t what I was hoping for but I was still happy with the results.
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7152009
Server room
In the past, when a job was completed, the film was stored in an archival filing cabinet. With digital it’s not that easy. Years ago I converted my darkroom into a server room. The room has grown from a simple place to hold hard drives to holding servers for FTP, stock sales, web hosting, FileMaker server and photo archiving. As the room grows, so does the heat output. It’s now producing so much heat and noise that I need to get an AC unit to cool things down. I have an air conditioning unit on order with a local vender. Hopefully I can get it installed next week.
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7072009
Location
The art of packing for location. I try and pack everything very efficiently so it all fits inside my minivan. Everything then needs to fit on two carts no wider than a standard office door. Clients are always amazed at how much I can fit.
