I stumbled across something pretty interesting today, while trolling the internet...
One of my photos ended up in the publication "A Comicbook Orange". Although it's quite random and unexpected, it's exactly the kind of thing that I wanted to happen.
See video here: http://www.acomicbookorange.com/2007/06/27/tales-from-the-crypt-1/ (it's the opening photo of the haunted house)
I release all of my photography as Creative Commons. This means that other people are free to use them in their projects. I don't use the normally restrictive copyright rules; but rather release my work freely. I always hope people will make use of it. In this case, that's just what happened.
Splendid.
In other photography news... I've recently shot my first wedding. As you are likely aware; photography is my hobby, not my occupation. I do it because I enjoy it, not for any profit.
I received an interesting phone call on the weekend of the 07/01/2007... It was Ray Devine (of WMPH fame), and he was working at a wedding. He told me that the ceremony was about to start, and the photographer was nowhere in sight. He asked if I could gather my gear and photograph the wedding.
Needless to say, I wasn't really prepared for such a task. Normally, a wedding photographer would own much more gear than I do. For example, I only have enough storage for about 700 photos. Jessawick shot almost 500 photos, I shot almost 1,100. That's a lot of photos. In fact, we had to unload to a laptop when we found a few moments of downtime.
I thought that the day went pretty well. If you're interested, here's the website:
xandraandjohn.barnyardnetworks.com