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A short history of this blog. With pictures.

One nice thing about the Saltys nomination, besides discovering some new local people to follow, is that it made me take a look back through all of my posts, pick a few favourites, and think about why I started the blog. Before Grace was born I decided I wanted to do some sort of photo project with her as she grew. I ran through a lot of complicated and artsy ideas, and in the end, instead of committing myself to one focused plan and failing as soon as it became to hard, I decided to just do my best to post some non tradition baby photos once a month or as often as my new schedule allowed. 

Looking at this post after doing a little collection, I'd say there are a lot more photos over the span of 7 months than I would have expected, thanks to help from Dan Culberson, Brenda McLeese and of course Kristi being the most patient person alive at times. 

People often say, she is going to hate this when she's older. And well, there likely will be a time where that is completely true, but I have put some thought into that, and I'd like to think she'll be cool enough to roll with it and march to the beat of her own drum a bit. And I have high hopes she'll absolutely think it's cool later on. Besides, people's pics of their kids have exploded to the point where I'm not sure old pics will be as embarrassing as they are now. I would trade any of these for the photos of me with bad hair, a silk shirt and bad acne from Jr High. 

Really, to be honest though, these are for me. She is such a focal point in my life, and in my heart that all of my thoughts are funnelled through the Grace filter, so all of my I love you's also turn into weird photo sets. I don't think that's such a bad thing.

Why post these if they're just for me you say? Well, there wouldn't be much on the internet if everyone thought that way. I've been inspired quite a bit by other creative family photos, and would be very pleased if any of these ever did the same for others. 

The Magic Show and The Magic Show Outtakes

The Littlest Turtle

The Cute is Strong with this One

The Littlest Rocksmith

Santa's Little Elf 

Star Trek - The Adventures of Captain Grace (They're all through the blog lately)

The Photos of Anthony Geddes

Baiting Businessmen with Burgers (No baby, just wanted to sneak this in)

Lazy Sunday

Baiting Businessmen with Burgers

I know. Not a single baby in these. Dan Culberson and I have been friends since around 2001. During those years we've developed a love, among many other hobbies, for staged photos. Mostly because Dan is an amazing photographer, and because I love costumes, props, and photos of myself. This shoot came out of a conversation a year or two ago around what to do on the weekend that ended with, "...what if I buy a pile of cheeseburgers and use them as bait to hunt you in the woods?"

I wanted to add a little of the history, since most photos you see on this blog will be taken by either Dan or I. I will likely self indulge once in awhile and throw up an old staged photo from the archives.  

This set could have really used a baby dressed as a hamburger in the foreground of shot 1...

See also:

The Magic Show

The Magic Show Outtakes

The Littlest Turtle

Baiting Businessmen with Burgers (Non baby related)