Almost everything that has appeared on this site during the last week was queued up weeks ago. “Why?” you ask. (Or maybe you don’t, but I’m going to answer anyway. :-)

It has been a very busy June – and for the most part not for photographic reasons. I’m a faculty member at a California college that is on the quarter system, and the spring term has been coming to a conclusion, with final exams this week – and I’m deep (hip deep, more or less) in the process of grading, grading, grading. And more grading.

Two weeks ago my oldest son moved to the SF Bay Area from Seattle and I flew up there to help him load a U-Haul truck, drive it to the Bay Area over the course of two days, and then unload and move into his new place.

And last weekend was my daughter’s wedding! As you can imagine, that wonderful event filled the better part of four or five days. (Although we hired professional photographers I did do some photography as well. More on that later.)

But in a few days things will begin to calm down. Grades will have been turned in. I’ll have the summer ahead of me – and I don’t teach summer session and I don’t return to the college until late September. This will give me more time for my photography, and I have some plans to post articles on several subjects here on the blog.

I hear the Sierra calling!

Just a reminder about the process for placing my photographs into this blog… As I make photographs I upload them to my gallery and then place the photos from the gallery into blog posts that appear on this page. In order to keep the photo per day flow going, I often am building a queue of upcoming photos that is a month or two “deep.” For example, the photos that are appearing right now were taken nearly two months ago, and the photos I’ve done most recently (I was in Seattle last weekend) won’t show up in blog posts until the end of July at the earliest.

If you are curious you can hit the gallery link and get a sneak peak at what I’ve been doing before those who just follow the blog get a look. In addition, there are some photographs in the gallery that don’t get posted here at all. (The six small images in the left sidebar are direct links to the most recent half dozen photographs placed in the gallery.)

Just thought you might like to know.

Tonight I discovered that all links beyond the home page of this site were going to my gallery page. Now, while I’m glad that a lot of people probably visited my gallery, I’m not so happy that people trying to access other pages on the site may have been frustrated. Although I’m not exactly what happened to create this problem I have – once again – fixed it.

If you were unable to find something you were looking for here today, please accept my apology.

I’m back this morning from a little jaunt to Seattle (about which I may post more later on) and getting ready to start a busy week. I just came across a fun little collection of quotes by photographers and about photography at Reuters. It contains plenty of gems, including two of my favorite from Saint Ansel but here’s one to enjoy before you click the link:

The photographer is like cod which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. – George Bernard Shaw