Graceland Cemetery - Chicago, IL

Daily Photo Graceland Cemetery, grave yard, headstone, marker, monument, x

In an effort to attend next year’s WPPI convention for FREE, I have posted the first of ten episodes of Ron Dawson’s reaity TV show for and about photographers, The Longest Day.

Ron Dawson also produces a great weekly audio podcast interviewing professional photographers called F-Stop Beyond. I’ve been an avid fan of F-Stop Beyond since its birth and look forward to each Friday when the newest episode is available. That makes me less of a shill, right? 

Enjoy!

The premise is simple: get 24 of the hottest professional photographers in the country (and Canada), bring them all to southern California armed only with the knowledge that they would be split into two teams and given an assignment to complete in just 24 hours. Once they arrive, they find out their assignment is to write, shoot, and edit an original short film about photography, AND an original PSA about the respective charity for which they are playing: ThirstRelief and Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.

Video F-Stop Beyond, Ron Dawson, The Longest Day, Video, WPPI

Getting prepped for knee surgery.

One year ago today, I was carted off to the nearest emergency room due to a torn and buckled lateral meniscus in my right knee. What a way to start a new year, eh?

I was sitting indian style on the floor at my sister-in-law’s house, playing with my nephew and for some unknown reason stood up quickly and immediately collapsed to the floor in pain. After a couple of failed attempts to stand upright I realized I was in trouble and about celebrate the first day of 2008 in the hospital.

Time to go to the Emergency Room. Since I was not able to walk, my brother-in-law Lance carried me on his back down a flight of stairs and to my car which, thanks to my friend Jason, was awaiting my arrival in front of the house. When we got to the hospital, my beautiful and quite strong wife Danialle pulled me out of the car and placed me in a wheelchair. I am indebted to them all.

Surgery was successfuly performed and spent 3 months attending physical therapy. In the end, I lost about 5% of my knee’s range and it makes an awful popping sound on occasion.

Here’s to a new year!

Memory Lane hospital, knee, lateral meniscus, new year, surgery

Tired of boring slideshows? Check out this wicked cool video slideshow I slapped together using Animoto.com. Create free 30-second “Shorts,” or pay cold hard cash for full-length DVD-quality videos.

Upload some images, upload a tune, and sit back as Animoto’s wizard-like algorithm automatically turns your dull images into something people will actually want to watch.

Video animoto, photo, photography, slideshow

I whipped up a design for Danialle’s Chicago baby shower invitation and had it printed onto 5″ x 7″ flat cards by the fine folks at ProDPI. This was my first press printed order with ProDPI and I’m extremely pleased with the result.

Here’s a better look at the photograph used on the invitataion.

Daily Photo baby shower, expecting, invitation, invite, maternity, photography, Pregnancy, pregnant

Went to LensCrafters today and requested the most ridiculous pair of eyeglasses frames the store could offer. This is what I came home with, “in about an hour.”

Danialle couldn’t look at me without laughing while I wore them in the store. The salesman that helped me laughed too, and asked me if I was serious. Danialle asked the salesman if anyone had ever bought these frames and he replied with, “no, never.” Perfect!

Daily Photo, Portrait awesome, Chadd Foy, four eyes, glasses, self portrait, spectacles

This photo was a collaborative effort between Danialle and I. Concept by Danialle, photographed by me, and processed by Danialle.

FYI, the red blob in the background is our rubber devil ducky. It is part of our rubber ducky trifecta (regular ducky, devil ducky, and zombie ducky).

Now that the Holidays have passed, the countdown has begun for the both of us.

Portrait, Pregnancy exepecting, maternity, photo, photography, portriat, Pregnancy, pregnant

A ‘Portfolio‘ tab was added above, next to ‘About‘ tab. Upon clicking this most magical tab of tabs, you will be whisked away to page displaying a gallery of breath taking (breath borrowing, perhaps?) images to stimulate your visual cortex.

Site Update

I was working late last night on a couple of projects with my faithful pet companion, Kaboom, by my side.

He usually sleeps right next to my chair while I’m at the computer. I almost rolled over one of his ears with the desk chair earlier this evening. That would have sucked.

Daily Photo, Pet animal, dog, Kaboom, Pet, photo, photography, Portrait

Kitchen chair + mop bucket = DANGER!

This was my view looking down while taking this photo.

I really need to buy a stepladder, or increase my health insurance. Purchasing a stepladder has been on my To-do list for months, but for some unbeknown reason I cannot commit to one.

Daily Photo bucket, chair, makeshift, photograph, photographer