In early August registration for thehavingfunclub.org will expire, and in an effort to simplify my life, I will not be renewing it. The Awesome Summer Journal will continue to exist on my official website: http://www.kmillerphotographs.com/blog

Please!

Update your bookmarks, links, RSS feed readers, etc. This address will still exist for the month of July and in a couple of weeks it will redirect to the new site. After that, it’s dunzo.

Thanks so much for reading along, and I hope you’ll join me at my new address!

Speaking of marriage! Chris and I just celebrated our fourth year of being husband and wife. We went out to eat at ¡Oba! in the NW last night, and though I started feeling crummy not even halfway through the dinner, we still managed to have a good time.

Apparently, every Sunday and Monday night, all bottles of wine are half priced with the order of an entree. We took this as an opportunity to try a Tempranillo (Tinto Pesquera 2006, it is delish) since ¡Oba! is a nuevo Latino restaurant. Our server was more than happy to re-cork the half-finished bottle for us to take home, too, which was very nice.

Happy Anniversary, Chris. :)

Tomorrow afternoon I’m hopping on a train and riding down to California to shoot a wedding, attend a baby shower, and visit with friends and family during the downtime. I’m beyond excited.

Unfortunately, this will be a 12-hour train ride, by myself, so I can’t imagine I’ll have anywhere near as much fun as I did when this photo of my friend, Ryan, was taken in Thailand last year.

I will be bringing my laptop with me, and keep the posts comin’ when I have the time to write ‘em. All orders for actions will still be sent out promptly, as well– I just wanted to give a head’s up in case I decided to totally bail out on the blogosphere for the next week!

Chris and I have been working together on a greeting card project, to be used mostly as a means of advertising.

Thanks to Chris, the finished products will be available for purchase at Broadway Books!

My print shop will be re-opening so they’ll be available online, as well. They’re 5×7" with a 4×6" print, envelope and plastic sleeve.

This was the commemorative photo we took earlier tonight after we’d stamped, glued and packaged the first test card together.

Exciting!

Last week I finally bit the bullet and ordered a negative scanner. I didn’t get anything too fancy– just an Epson V500– but it’s a purchase I’d been putting off for years. It arrived earlier this afternoon and I’ve been trapped inside my binder of negatives from college ever since!

So far I’ve been skipping around but I intend on getting everything scanned in while I patiently wait for my first rolls from the Rolleiflex and Holga to come back.

We’ve also got a stack of negs from Chris’s trip to Africa some 10 years ago, long before we knew each other, that I can’t wait to share.

This photo is a double exposure from AP&D, a staple in every HSU student’s life.

More to come!