Just got an email from Canon about my poor, tired, broken 40D. The repair is done and the camera is being shipped back to me. Yeah! The cost $214.00. Argh! Last month I paid that exact amount for the same repair to my 20D.
I'm broke and my savings for my much wished for Mark 5D III is gone, poof, just like that. Sigh, at least I'll have my beloved 40D back and, fingers crossed, working.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Who is this Murphy & Why do I Always Have to Abide by His Laws?
If anyone knows where this guy Murphy, who makes all the laws, lives please let me know. I want to egg his house. Murphy's law dictates that one's camera will break when you're 45 minutes from home and shooting 
pageant pictures for a state wide newspaper. Of course this happened to me last week as I stated in a previous blog. So off I traipse to Kinko's FedEx and spent almost $60 to ship the darn thing back to Canon for repairs.
Now that's enough to bum me out big time. I had to borrow a backup camera for tonight's Jr Miss Pageant in Meridian and Saturday's wedding.
The weird thing is that only a month ago I had to send my EOS 20D in for the same problem! On top of that I had the 40D focus checked and fixed last September because I thought my images were coming out a bit soft. SIGH!
This time when the 40D comes back I'm seriously considering taking it and the 20D to church and have them prayed over.
Don't get me wrong I'm a die-hard Canon fan but I'm getting a little gun shy.
Keep your fingers, toes and eyes crossed that this time the 'fix-is-in'!
pageant pictures for a state wide newspaper. Of course this happened to me last week as I stated in a previous blog. So off I traipse to Kinko's FedEx and spent almost $60 to ship the darn thing back to Canon for repairs.Now that's enough to bum me out big time. I had to borrow a backup camera for tonight's Jr Miss Pageant in Meridian and Saturday's wedding.
The weird thing is that only a month ago I had to send my EOS 20D in for the same problem! On top of that I had the 40D focus checked and fixed last September because I thought my images were coming out a bit soft. SIGH!
This time when the 40D comes back I'm seriously considering taking it and the 20D to church and have them prayed over.
Don't get me wrong I'm a die-hard Canon fan but I'm getting a little gun shy.
Keep your fingers, toes and eyes crossed that this time the 'fix-is-in'!
Monday, July 20, 2009
No Rest for the Weary
MISSISSIPPI'S JR MISS PAGEANT RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER
I thought that as soon as Miss Mississippi was over I could go home and get some rest but not so!
Pageant season is not over. Meridian will be holding the Mississippi's Junior Miss pageant this week in Meridian. This photographer, sans one broken camera, will be front and center at least one night, Thursday, if not more.
Mary Clair performs her talent in the 2008 Clinton Program
Mary Clair's final mock interview session was held a couple of weeks ago where she was suprised by family and friends with a "Good Luck" party at the Baptist Healthplex.
Final mock interview session
Mom, Susan, models the very lastest in pageant jewelry
Pageant season is not over. Meridian will be holding the Mississippi's Junior Miss pageant this week in Meridian. This photographer, sans one broken camera, will be front and center at least one night, Thursday, if not more.
Clinton's Mary Clair Cardin is Clinton's Jr Miss and a wonderful representative. I am looking forward to cheering her on during the pageant. Just a bit of background her parents are Tommie & Susan Cardin. Mary Clair is planning on attending the University of Mississippi and majoring in Marketing Communications. Mary Clair's talent will be contemporary ballet number dance to "This Will Be", by Natalie Cole.
Mary Clair performs her talent in the 2008 Clinton ProgramMary Clair's final mock interview session was held a couple of weeks ago where she was suprised by family and friends with a "Good Luck" party at the Baptist Healthplex.
Final mock interview session Just a few close friends
Mom, Susan, models the very lastest in pageant jewelryEmail your well wishes to Mary Clair during pageant week at maryclaircardin@msjrmiss.com.
Be sure to keep up with the latest updates from Meridian and the Mississippi Junior Miss Pageant by surfing over to www.clintonnews.com.
Be sure to keep up with the latest updates from Meridian and the Mississippi Junior Miss Pageant by surfing over to www.clintonnews.com.
Click on any photo to go to the Clinton's Jr Miss Pageant Gallery on my website.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Finals for Miss Mississippi 2009
This is it!
Okay, if you saw this morning's post you know that my two picks made the top ten!
Check out the fans...isn't that Rhonda Whitehead of Rhonda's School of Dance & Gymnastics on Grant's Ferry Road? That explains some of the very talented kids dancing on-stage later in the broadcast.
Keep up with all the latest at: www.clarionledger.com
Let's see what happens.
Check out the fans...isn't that Rhonda Whitehead of Rhonda's School of Dance & Gymnastics on Grant's Ferry Road? That explains some of the very talented kids dancing on-stage later in the broadcast.
Keep up with all the latest at: www.clarionledger.comLet's see what happens.
My Top Two
Okay, I told you Thursday that my top picks had been hermetically sealed in a mayonnaise jar on my front porch but now I am ready to tear them open and let you peak inside at my top two picks. Here we go, Danielle Smith, Miss Heartland and Anna Tadlock, Miss New South. I am going way out on a limb but I think Danielle Smith will win and Anna will be 1st runner up but it could go the other way too.
Be sure and watch tonight on WLBT at 8:00 to see if I have chosen correctly.
That's all for today literally. Susan and I have headed home to Clinton to finish uploading images, articles and blogs. We were supposed to stay but The Clarion Ledger is sending another reporter and the Associated Press will have a photographer at tonights broadcast to take the top ten, top five and the winner so we decided to cut our stay short and spend a few quality hours with our spouses. Thanks for following my pageant coverage. Remember to check out www.clarionledger.com for more more images, articles and blogs. I will have a Miss Mississippi 2009 gallery on our web site www.JohanssonStudio.com in a couple of weeks. If you've liked the photos so far get ready to see alot more with never before seen images.
Be sure and watch tonight on WLBT at 8:00 to see if I have chosen correctly.
That's all for today literally. Susan and I have headed home to Clinton to finish uploading images, articles and blogs. We were supposed to stay but The Clarion Ledger is sending another reporter and the Associated Press will have a photographer at tonights broadcast to take the top ten, top five and the winner so we decided to cut our stay short and spend a few quality hours with our spouses. Thanks for following my pageant coverage. Remember to check out www.clarionledger.com for more more images, articles and blogs. I will have a Miss Mississippi 2009 gallery on our web site www.JohanssonStudio.com in a couple of weeks. If you've liked the photos so far get ready to see alot more with never before seen images.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Miss Mississippi 2009 & Friday in Vicksburg
What a Long Day
Sorry about the late post but the time crept up on us.
Started Friday at yet another contestant autograph party then did a little shopping (I'd rather go to the dentist than shop but for Susan I'll suck-it-up).
Okay, okay it wasn't all bad. We thought if we wore the crown and felt how it would be to be a pageant winner we could write better articles and take photos with a different angle. Store management politely asked us to remove the crowns and leave the store. Fortunately no security had to be involved.
Susan O'bryan (editor of the Clinton News) is on a misson to find THE purse! It must be red with side pockets for phones etc. and zips but has an outer pocked that will accommodate her notepad. It can't be too large or too small or to granny looking or to.....well you get the idea. The ideal purse simply does not exist but she is on a quest and will not admit defeat.
We went to two malls (every store in each one) then up and down Washington Street which is one the main attractions to visitors in Vicksburg. We started in Sassafras worked our way down one side had at lunch at Rusty's (you must try it when you visit) then back up the other side. Yes, we stopped in at every shop. It didn't matter that they didn't all sell purses this is what one does in Vicksburg.
Okay, as you have probably noticed in the picture below I WAS WRONG it does exsist! Is it red? No. Ha! So I was a smidge right. Guess which store she found it in? Yes, you guessed it, Sassafras. Didn't we start there three and a half hours before? Arrgh!
Thursday Night
But I digress let's get back to the reason we are in Vicksburg in the first place.Thursday night's preliminary went a little smoother but ran a bit long. Sam Haskell, Chairman of the Miss America Organization, producer, author and agent came onstage to tell us a bit about his new book Promises I Made My Mother. He has had a very interesting life and meet many very famous and influential people. Just to name a couple, he has handled Bill Cosby and Dolly Pardon. He equates his success to the way his mother raised him and the promises he made her. I have purchased my personally autographed copy here at the pageant and I would recommend that you check it out on Amazon.com.
Got back to the room to edit and upload images then crashed about 1:30. Please go to the ClarionLedger.com and check out the articles, blogs and photo galleries of the pageant.
That's all for me today.
Okay, okay it wasn't all bad. We thought if we wore the crown and felt how it would be to be a pageant winner we could write better articles and take photos with a different angle. Store management politely asked us to remove the crowns and leave the store. Fortunately no security had to be involved.
Susan O'bryan (editor of the Clinton News) is on a misson to find THE purse! It must be red with side pockets for phones etc. and zips but has an outer pocked that will accommodate her notepad. It can't be too large or too small or to granny looking or to.....well you get the idea. The ideal purse simply does not exist but she is on a quest and will not admit defeat.
We went to two malls (every store in each one) then up and down Washington Street which is one the main attractions to visitors in Vicksburg. We started in Sassafras worked our way down one side had at lunch at Rusty's (you must try it when you visit) then back up the other side. Yes, we stopped in at every shop. It didn't matter that they didn't all sell purses this is what one does in Vicksburg.
Okay, as you have probably noticed in the picture below I WAS WRONG it does exsist! Is it red? No. Ha! So I was a smidge right. Guess which store she found it in? Yes, you guessed it, Sassafras. Didn't we start there three and a half hours before? Arrgh!
Thursday Night
Got back to the room to edit and upload images then crashed about 1:30. Please go to the ClarionLedger.com and check out the articles, blogs and photo galleries of the pageant.
That's all for me today.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Miss Mississippi 2009 Thursday
Mississippi to Crown New Royalty this Saturday
Okay, we, Susan O'bryan and I, made it through the first night of preliminaries last night. Only 3 more nights of the EXACT same program to go. The entertainment numbers were snappy and toe tappy, lighting and "costuming" was bright and colorful.
Christine Kozlowski, Miss Mississippi 2008 entertainsTaryn Foshee and Michael Young are doing a wonderful job of emeecing (no surprise there). Please tune into WLBT on Saturday night at eight o'clock to see the top ten then the top five picked then finally our new Miss Mississippi crowned. Rumors and whispers are already flying around Vicksburg as to who the next winner is but only time will tell. I do have my top five picks but I'm going to keep those to myself for now (hermetically sealed since noon today and placed in a mayonnaise jar on my front porch).
If Anything Can Go Wrong It Will!
Sometime yesterday afternoon while photographing interviews with Michael (that's him in the photo above just a few minutes before diaster struck) and Taryn my camera went on the fritz and decided that it no longer wanted to focus automatically which made the rest of the day a "stomach churner" to say the least. Got to the hotel room around 11:00 P.M. After posting my manually focused (sorry if some are a bit blurry) pictures to the Clarion Ledger I climbing into bed at 2:30 A.M. only to pull myself up again at 6:30, also A.M., and make a hurried drive to Clinton for a new camera. I made it back in time to take pictures at the autograph party for groups A and C, eat a quick lunch, edit, upload those images and write this blog. I want to take a nap but I don't think time will allow before tonight's preliminary. YAWN!
Sidenote: next time you're in Vicksburg you have to go to The Tomato Place on Highway 61 and get the best and freshest fruit smoothie you've ever tasted. So far Susan and I have tried Rainbow (variety of fruits including kiwi and other fruits), Yellow Watermelon and Grape, All Natural Peach and Regular Watermelon. Between now and Sunday afternoon we may have tasted a little bit more than half of the flavors offered and will be looking forward to next year to try the rest (if we haven't cheated and snuck down before then).
That's all for right now but stay posted for more pageant/Vicksburg updates. Also check out my website www.JohanssonStudio.com in the next couple of weeks for all the pageant images.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
It's 1:17 a.m. and I just finished uploading Monday's Miss Mississippi images to the Clarion Ledger. Check them out at www.ClarionLedger.com . The parade was hot, humid but short and sweet. The autograph party was hot and crowded. It was fun seeing the little kids simply awe struck as they waited in line to receive autographed pictures of the contestants. There won't be any images Tuesday but check back every night through Sunday to view pictures of each day's events.
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