Cafe Press

I created my own shop at Cafe Press. There is only one design in there for now, but I was pretty proud of it. I guess you have to know the original song to totally get it, but it's fun anyway! The shop is called Good Day for a Day, which is taken from something Miles said over a year ago ("It's a good day for a day!"). It's just a fun thing I stumbled upon...maybe I'll come up with some more designs that include my photography but for now there's just the one!

And to All a Good Night

Scenes From Oxford: Coupon Code!

If you are familiar with my 2010 Scenes From Oxford calendar and have been interested in buying large (or small) prints from that same calendar, then now's the best time! Starting today until December 31, go to the 'Scenes From Oxford' gallery at my photo site Leaning Tripod Photography and enter the coupon code 'SAVE25' when you checkout and your order will be 25% off. Remember, only the 'Scenes From Oxford' gallery prints and merchandise will accept the coupon code!

As I add to my galleries -- there are a lot of pictures to go through and upload from the past decade, so it takes some time -- I will have more sales and coupon codes so keep checking back. If you're interested in having portraits made, please let me know so we can set up a session!

And if you visit my site and don't make a purchase but want to leave a comment, please feel free to do so! I would love to have feedback on how you think the site or photos look.

A Christmas Wish

We've never done the 'meeting Santa and getting a picture with him' thing with Miles, but there's a possibility we'll do that this week sometime. So I asked Miles last night at dinner what he would tell Santa he wanted for Christmas if he met him and without hesitation he said, showing me the size with his hands, "A big gun. Not a tiny gun. A big gun." I'm really not sure where he would get this idea since the only gun thing he's been around is a tiny water gun he was given recently. So I said, "You mean like a really big water gun?"

"No, one that shoots things." (Gestures things coming out of the gun.)

"You mean like, soft things?" (Me picturing some kind of Nerf gun.)

"No, hard things."

"But those would hurt people."

Long pause. "Oh."

I know he's four and that he's still unaware of guns and their real danger, but it bothered me just a bit that upon his very first meeting with Santa he would say "I want a big gun!"

Another part of me couldn't help picturing Peter Billingsley in 'A Christmas Story' frantically talking about the Red Ryder BB gun before being kicked down the slide.

Wordless Wednesday