Ooops. Slacking

Ok, so I didn't make it far in my trip before the blogs stopped, so let me try and catch up.

DAY 3...
Today was the practice round for the Legends Tour Golf Tournament. Really not an overly eventful day. I drove around the course looking for the players and realized that not all the guys bothered to practice, but did come across two pretty cool foursomes...


Michael Strahan, Clinton Portis, Eric Dickerson, Greg Lloyd



Bruce Smith, Lawrence Taylor, Jim Kelly, Darrell Talley

The rest of the day was very eventful, relxing the afternoon away knowing Friday would be a long day.

DAY 4...
Tournament day. Gypsy and I headed out to the golf course around 8:00 am to get set up for a 9:00 shotgun start. I was to be stationed at the 15th hole. A 166-yard par 3 playing downhill and with the wind. Roughly a nine iron. But you don't care about that. this is what you care about. the view from the tee box...


Out of the 11 groups that came through in the tournament only 3 or 4 players hit the green. Can't blame them for being distracted. By the way, Lawrence Taylor shot a 67 on his ball and his team still came in second.
Here are your winners, the Dave and Lonnie Stewart team (don't know the other guy's names)...


The awards dinner was that night. Great food, PLENTY of drinks, but more importantly an extremely heart-felt speech by Virginia Tech Alumn Bruce Smith about the tragedy that occured there this past week. His wife is also a VT grad.



DAY 5...
Saturday was a work day for me. Gypsy had a well deserved sleep-in while I headed into the casino office to begin the process of printing out the team photos and stuffing them into photo folders. that took most of the day.
I came back to the room and relaxed after, then last night Gypsy and I joined the golf course crew for a little poker (I came in 3rd, broke even). Then we headed out to the beach for a little karoke, I of course didnt sing, but Gypsy and the golf guys did.
ok, that's all for now. will try and keep up the rest of the trip.

St. Kitts Day 2

Ok, so as it turns out, this place is pretty amazing during the day too. After sleeping in until about 11 local time (by the way, its eastern time here) i met up with gypsy for lunch at a beach-side cafe that was very good.

then it was off to meet some of her co-workers to discuss how my photography job would work for the golf tournament while i was here. after a brief meeting where things were settled i headed back to the house to relax for a bit.

that didn't last long, i decided to head to the beach to see what it was like. well, the beach was beautiful, the ocean amazing, but, the sand was VERY hot, so i gave up early and headed back to the house for a nap.

then it was time to head back up to the hotel to photograph the golf guests as they arrived. just to give you and idea about who is here for this, here's the short list of players:

Michael Strahan
Eric Dickerson
Clinton Portis
Deacon Jones
Kevin Greene
Jim Kelly
Bruce Smith
and many more...



after check-in everyone headed down to the north pool, which is one of the smaller pools kinda away from things for a welcome reception with dinner and drinks. it was nice, the food was great and the booze was flowing.

after about and hour or two out there, gypsy and i decided we were done and headed back to the room, she was very tired and i can't say i blame her.

so tomorrow i'm off to the golf course to look around and watch the practice round of the tournament and get the lay of the land for friday's photography set-up.

peace out homies. will check in again.

St. Kitts Day 1

ok, so really it's st. kitts night 1. I didn't get here until about 9:00 tuesday night. The day started REAL early. woke up about 5 am to get ready. had an 8:30 flight to San Juan, P.R.

got there a little early which teased me, turns out there was a 1:45 flight to st. kitts. we got there at 1:30. nope, didnt make it. which meant staying at the san juan airport for nearly 5 1/2 hours waiting on a 7:30 flight.

so, with that long a wait in mind and hunger eating away at me, what's the first thing i do in what is a foreign land (to me anyways), i find the nearest Domino's pizza. i go outside the box huh?

let me say this about san juan, the airport smelled funny, ok let's clarify, it smelled like shit.

but, every single person i saw at the airport that was from san juan, mainly workers, all had non-stop smiles and laughter, handshakes all around, kisses on the cheek for each other and warm greetings for all. it was an amazing thing to see coming from what can by a VERY cynical place like where we live.

anyways, we finally get to board our tiny plane. prolly not even 100 people on the plane.

after a 1 hour flight to st. kitts, in which you look out the window and see NOTHING over the ocean but the most amazing stars you've ever seen in your life. stars all the way to the horizon. it was truly breathtaking.

we land in st. kitts at an airport about the size of a whataburger. customs is a little confusing, but i got through the stamping part easily, FIRST STAMP IN THE NEW PASSPORT!!! woohoo.

then came the customs declaration area. the guy laughed at me for having 2 big boxes of honey nut cheerios. hey, gypsy asked, i delivered.

waiting oustide the airport was of course the amazing gypsy, ready to tackle me with a hug. it was incredible to see her. it had been since feb. 25 when she left to come work down here.

we loaded up in the back of an expedition limo she had waiting and headed to the resort. very dark outside, but still the resort looked amazing. we got to the room, dropped off my stuff, went out for dinner (great jerk chicken sandwich) the came back home to sleep, ;o) yeah right. ok. peace out. i know that one was long and not too eventful, but i will try and blog every day i'm here.
peace and love. everyone should come down here and visit.

p.s. I will be posting pics as often as i can. here's the first...

Enough is Enough

My self-imposed internship status is over. I'm no longer a freebie photog for future employers. And to those future employers, be ready to pay for my talents. Ego? maybe. But enough is enough. I work too hard to get nothing out of it financially.

It's true, I've lived most of my life not worrying about money and most of the time its caused nothing but problems. I've realized it's easy to live that life when you have money. I have none. I barely have the ability to pay bills most months. I've lived the embarrassment of an eviction notice on my door as recently as last month.
so that's it. from now on if you want my to shoot for you I'd be happy to, just know my days of gratis work are over.

check in at www.clcimaging.com soon for my price list for shoots and contact me anytime.

if i sound pissed in this blog you're right. I'm incredibly frustrated. but as you all know, that won't last long. I'm a happy-go-lucky guy generally speaking. I'll be back and running soon enough.
and before some people go getting all upset thinking this is an indictment of them, it's not, this is about me and my lack of initiative in my own career.

peace and love to my peeps.

ATTENTION CLASS!!!

i want you to look at this very closely...





i think everyone needs to pick up their driver's handbook again and remember what that sign means. it doesnt mean speed up and nearly run my ass over, it means i gots the right of way people and slow your punk-ass down. especially those of you at 360 and 183. morons.