Jennifer’s the middle child. Of five. And she beat out the oldest of my younger sisters and me en route to the first wedding. The funny thing is, it took her and her husband Eric 7+ years to get around to it.

I might have taken more reception pictures had the family not tried dragging me out to the dance floor so often…even on a recovering bad ankle.

The event, altogether, was rather quaint and relaxed…a testament to the general feelings of family and friends gathered there that pretty much would give a shrug and a snicker with the look of having considered them married already anyway. A couple of shots:

Jen and Eric marked my first of two weddings this summer, the second of which is between a former coworker and friend John and his fiancee Michelle. I’ll have some future results from that wedding as I will have a more formal job there than I did at my sister’s, but they both spent some time with me earlier today (7/3, actually…although this is a belated edit to the post having been written at the end of June) and I have one result I thought I’d share:

“From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire…”

In rock-climbing, a dynamic movement is one where, in order to get to the next hold, your entire body leaves the surface of the wall (I know, this is a weird way to introduce the topic without preface).

I nailed one last night.

And, it occured to me a little later on just how symbolic a culmination it was for me on so many different fronts recently.

…is nearly gone and I’ve been quiet. Post-birthday events have formed a tumultuous roller-coaster and not much shooting has resulted in the aftermath.

However, one exception I made got directed at the sentient manifestation of consistency that I always seem to end up looking towards when needing a bit of grounding…

…even if that consistency must inevitably include a near-eternal, whiny demand for food.

Been a bit inundated lately with numerous things (including the weather) that keep giving me the feeling of wanting to spend days upon days under several microplush blankets doing nothing more that laying around watching movies or TV shows on DVD. Nicotine helped bring a warmer motivational moment during a recent shoot and, although I’m not showcasing as many of the yummy pictures as I’d like due to concerns over where the image set will end up, I decided this shot definitely needed some exposure on here.

One night during Ophelia’s last visit, she dragged her friend Olga along for some photographic purposes. Also, later that week, Raelyn’s most recent stop by my area happened to coincide with Ophelia’s time here. Below are a couple of the results wrought from both aforementioned events.

It’s actually been an busy time period with shooting. Between Ophelia, her friend Olga, Raelyn and even a bar regular of mine who asked to have some shots done…it’s been more shooting on a consistent basis than I’ve probably had in a year. lus, a relatively hefty work schedule (including a 14 hour day yesterday) ends up leaving me with a lazier dispositionj when I return back home.

Anyhow, Ophelia and I have been enjoying a good chunk of shooting time and I realized that I hadn’t updated andy of our more recent stuff. Apparently I have yet to hit the jackpot with an image with her quite as big as the first set we did (based on the amount of commentary a specific image is getting), but even at this point I haven’t thoroughly gone through all of the pictures.

I’ll eventually get around to the sets with her and Olga together, as well as the ones with her and Raelyn…but I have a good friend staring at me to go to lunch, so I should get this going…