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Here are photos from day three, taken at The Puppet Shop in the Rocks District of Sydney and Taronga Zoo in Mosman:

Here are photos taken from our second day in Australia:

I originally intended on posting pictures daily, but a busy schedule and inconvenient / cost prohibitive / unreliable internet access got in the way.

Heather and I are on our delayed and much anticipated honeymoon to Australia and New Zealand.  I intend to post pictures every day of our trip as long as I can obtain Internet access.  Here’s what I managed to capture today:

Katie and T Broussard

This past Saturday, I had the pleasure of shooting an outdoor wedding in Roseville, Minnesota at the Muriel Sahlin Arboretum.  Katie and T are a really fun couple with wonderful families.  Several of T’s family and friends came in from as far away as California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida to experience the best August weather Minnesota has to offer.

Click here for the slideshow.

Special thanks to my second photographer, Nick Cecconi, for capturing some fantastic moments.

I assisted Dana Schoppe as a second photographer for a wedding in Stillwater, MN several weeks ago; I’ll be posting those pictures another day.

This upcoming weekend, I am shooting a wedding in Roseville, MN.  Great couple, cute venue, and nice families.  I’m looking forward to it.  Stay tuned to this blog for updates!

I helped out fellow photographer CK Sandberg with his booth at Como Park this past Sunday.  Toward the end of the day we walked around its beautiful Japanese garden.  Here are the pictures I managed to snag before we were ousted by a cranky park official:

I’ve passed this barn many times on the way to visit Heather’s parents.  That day, the owner of the property was mowing, so I was able to achieve permission to go onto his land to get some pictures.  Here is the best shot:

Signs, signs, everywhere the signs

I have many more photos to post; hope to get to them soon.

A few months ago, a colleague at work gave me a 1950s Ansco Speedex camera he purchased with a lot at an estate sale in the Portland, Oregon area.  About a week later I took the camera to Indian Mounds Park, which overlooks the St. Paul skyline.  The resulting pictures were heavily underexposed and were damaged due to not being wound tightly enough (according to the unknown developer to whom Ritz Camera sent it).

I tried a second time a few weeks ago and the results were much better.  I used ISO 3200 B&W film and tried a variety of apertures and shutter times.  I also brought along my Nikon N6006 and shot a roll of ISO 1600 B&W.

E-6 Lab developed and scanned the photos.  I was extremely happy with their level of service and communication and I highly recommend them.

The first three pictures were taken with the Ansco and the last four with the Nikon:

On the following Ansco shot, I double-exposed the moon where I -thought- the sky might be in the first exposure, and it ended up, well…a little lower:

Slideshows of the complete set of pictures for each are here:  Ansco and Nikon.

I took a combination of photos and art and created the following two sets of business cards.  First card (below) is for my wife’s up-and-coming event coordination business.  I received permission from Gordon French to use the scroll graphic in his Ad Style Wordpress Theme (thanks, Gordon!) and used Gimp’s Edge Detect functionality to render Heather’s picture for the back:

Heather's Card (Front)

Heather's Card (Back)

I also created cards for Heather’s favorite hair stylist, Kim over at Shear Genius, using only photos taken with my D200:

Shear Genius (Front)

Shear Genius (Back)

All were printed at Vistaprint using some money-saving promo codes found at Retail Me Not.  Except for some aggressive cropping on the back of the Shear Genius card, I believe the cards turned out pretty well.

Steven from Phree Range Fitness, a start-up fitness company in the Twin Cities area, hired me for a photo shoot featuring him and three other models.  The pictures will be used for a website promoting his business.

Here are a few from the shoot:

Thanks to Steven and his fitness class for providing me this opportunity!