I’ll blog a little while I sit here and upload thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of photos.

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I have suffered my first Windows crash ever. Not a hard drive crash, but an actual Windows failure. Definitely very annoying. I have access to all of my photographs, but I don’t have my address book, my QuickBooks and other program data. Also, editing is taking forever since I am stuck working on my notebook.

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I am drastically cutting back on my sugar intake. There is no doubt that I have been addicted to it for years, consuming way more in a day than I should in even a month. Basically, if it is not a natural unprocessed food, I am not eating it or drinking it. The first three days were horrible; I felt sick, lethargic, hungry, irritable and just plain bad. It has been about a week now and I still semi-crave it, but not nearly as bad. I am hoping that after a month or two, I just stop caring about it and stop eating it altogether. Who in their right mind would exchange diabetes or heart disease for a brownie?! Can’t imagine what a drug or alcohol addiction must be like.

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Nikon just released the most amazing digital camera of all time, the Nikon D700. It is a full frame sensor camera in a small body for just $3,000!!! My second photographer, Jim, just bought one, and if it performs as well as I think it will, I will be buying one too!

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Semi vague, but I am not naming names……… this probably applies to everybody, including myself, so read on… if somebody looked you in the eyes and said that there is no possible way that you could do it, no possible way that you could ever earn more than $100,000 in a year, no possible way that you could ever be one of the most successful people in the world, you would do everything in your power to prove him or her wrong, no question about it. Why is it alright for you to tell yourself that you can’t do it, that there is no possible way that you can ever earn more than $100,000 in a year and that there is no possible way that you can ever be one of the most successful people in the world?! You are limiting yourself and hurting yourself and you are standing in your own way. You are literally at the cusp of unimaginable wealth but you are not doing what it takes to get to the next level. Please realize what you are doing and change. Simply change your patterns, sleep a little less, read a little more and work a little harder and you will be richer than anyone you know, you will have more fun than anyone you know and you will be happier than anyone you know!

Stop being afraid of success!

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I am listening to Mozart’s Requiem while I write this; one of my favorite pieces of music. Impressive that it is over 200 years old. I think that one day I will travel the world listening to the greatest orchestras playing the greatest classical music of all time.

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My friend Shan is back from Africa! She was there for a month! She just emailed me!

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I have been watching the National Geographic Channel series Locked Up Abroad, that is one intense show!!!!!!!!! Wow. First off, people who get caught, you are idiots. Second off, wow!!! I couldn’t imagine myself being so desperate as to need to smuggle drugs into and out of a country. Also, couldn’t imagine being so short sighted as to disregard the likely worst case scenario outcome. One thing that struck me in the few episodes that I saw was how the people almost always had a change of heart mid-way through the smuggle, but did not know how to get themselves out of the situation.

The episode that I just saw was based in Bangladesh. There was an 18 year old girl checking out of her hotel with drugs that had a US street value of $1,000,000 taped to her body while the guy forcing her to carry the drugs was standing by in the lobby. Moments earlier, she had tried to run away, but caused a bit of a scene and the clerk asked her if everything was alright and she said yes. At that point, all she had to do was write on her bill, which she had to sign, in big bold letters that there was a problem, “Don’t let me leave,” “Call the police,” “I am a hostage,” “He will kill me,” etc. Any of that will get the clerks attention and 99.999999999999% of hotel front desk people speak English, even the ones who are working at 3am, so they would have understood. All she had to do was think on her feet and she could have gotten the situation resolved with less than a life sentence in jail (which was later reduced due to a presidential pardon).

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I am learning about motivation. Not the motivational speaker types of motivation, but the genuine real effective motivation that works for me. It is interesting to see what motivates me and what doesn’t. So far, experience motivates me more than anything.

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I am learning the ropes with regard to hiring a CEO. Interesting process to say the least…

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It is being reported that 2008 Mini Coopers are basically sold out and that orders for 2009s can’t start for a few months, so I guess I am waiting a little while longer

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I think I am being interviewed by the Rochester Business Journal this week for something. They need to take my photo soon. I think I’ll review the questions this morning.

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I have so many phone conferences to take care of today, not even funny. I have been on the phone so much lately that I have had to charge it 2 or 3 times each day.

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I am in a transitional phase. As soon as I finish my wedding obligations, I will share details of the next major step with you. Big changes, exciting changes and fun changes are coming, but I don’t want to speak too soon or say anything that I might not want to be read quite yet

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I think somebody who has my phone number stored in their phone had it in their pocket without the key lock turned on, because on Friday from 11:20pm – 12:00am, I was called non-stop by a phone number that I did not recognize. I think it was two people in a bar or restaurant setting, since it was pretty loud, so loud that I could not hear what was being said or by whom, just that there was a lot of noise.

That actually happens a semi-lot. Just a side effect of having a name that starts with a B.

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I know I haven’t updated in a while, so I hope that this long one makes up for it

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Have a great day!

“Entrepreneurs love their work. They love their companies. But the style of the entrepreneur is to start a company but not sustain its success,” he says. “They don’t know how to manage day-to-day issues…”

Truer words have never been spoken.

More posts about that quote coming throughout the summer

I had a minor computer glitch which should be fixed shortly, once that is done, expect photos and emails to continue as usual

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I photographed my friend Frann’s mom’s wedding at the Genesee Valley Club on Friday and had a great time. The staff at the Genesee Valley Club is always so nice, I get treated better at GVC than anywhere else, and the host, Gennaro’s, white or plaid tuxedos are always amazing!

Here are some of my favorite photos, enjoy

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Here are a few photographs from my engagement session for Rachael and Andy taken a few weekends ago, whose wedding was on Saturday.

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I have updated my wedding photography prices for 2009, you can see them here

The new prices reflect the increased demand for my portrait and wedding photography work, and also represent the new geographic markets that I am entering, as well as represent the new clients for whom I am photographing.

I expect to photograph around 10-weddings and somewhere around 20-portrait sessions in 2009.

A lot of the work is for active and retired athletes living in NYC, Philly, DC and other Eastern Seaboard cities, but I do still hope to photograph a few Rochester and Finger Lakes weddings

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The moment they have been dreading… here are the 4th of July pictures

Only a couple of silly ones, the rest are nice!

My grandmother knows that I put funny photos of her online, and she asked what people on the internet say about her

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I wonder if a big ISP had one of their routers fail today?

Somewhere between Rochester NY and Newark NJ there was a series of trace route failures (basically, when you go to a website, it is like driving down the road, you can’t go straight to your destination, you have to make some turns and follow some signs along the way), which means that stuff isn’t working like it is supposed to.

For instance, my site was not working for Rochester residents for at least 20-minutes this afternoon, but at that same time, my executive accounts rep at GoDaddy in Arizona could see it perfectly… that is because we don’t use the same series of routers to get to the websites we visit because we are not in the same place

There have a been a bunch of major sites that have been down for me and up for other people and up for me but down for other people throughout the day, which leads me to think that there is/was at least one major router failure.

So, in case you were wondering why the internet was not working today, my guess is that one of the pieces of hardware that directs internet traffic is/was broken.

Wedding below, keep scrolling down

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I had a great wedding a few weeks ago at the Colgate Divinity in Rochester, NY with Ross and Laura. It was a wedding that I had been looking forward to for a while and am happy to say that I am quite satisfied with the photos

Since Laura is a very loyal blog reader, I am going to post a bunch more photos than usual, so enjoy!

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