FMTSO: The Work You Do

I just love the Friday My Town Shoot Out themes. It keeps me on my toes and makes me think.
This week's theme is all about the work you do. Most people probably associate this subject with getting paid to do something. I haven't worked a real job or business since 2009 so that means I haven't been paid real money in over three years. I do however make an occasional buck or two by doing side photography jobs, however I do lots of work for free because it is neccesary to run my household, etc.  I also hold the position of Secretary for Nevada Camera Club and it is my duty to attend the monthly executive board meetings and take the minutes. And yes, it is real work. I am a procrastinator so I usually don 't get them typed up for review until the day before the next month's meeting. It's a love hate thing. I like being on the board but I also hate that some board members will pick apart what I have transcribed. It's a lot of work to keep my mouth shut and be polite at the meetings. We have a very serious club and sometimes things get a little heated. Anyhow, here is a copy of last months executive board meeting minutes.

Nevada Camera Club Executive Board Meeting Minutes July 10, 2012

Present:  President & Immediate Past President, Paul Sobel; Secretary & Public Relations, JarieLyn Robbins; Treasurer & Advertising, Mary Sheets;  Beginners Photography (SIG), Julie Chadburn; Club Apparel, Kitty Heckendorf; Community Liaison, Deyanira Flores; Competitions (Special), Willie Matos; Competitions (Monthly), Gayla Malcolm;  House, Valerie Christiansen; Membership, Susan Bouet;  Programs, Allan Duff; PSA Liaison & Web Site & Past Presidents’ Advisory Council, Dennis Gershick; Sports & Action (SIG), Matt Rinaldi.

Meeting called to order at 7:04 p.m. by President, Paul Sobel. It was noted that a quorum was present. Agenda adopted.

The June minutes were reviewed. A motion to approve minutes as amended was made by Deyanira Flores and seconded by Mary Sheets. Motion passed.

The May & June Treasurer’s report was reviewed. A motion to accept treasurer’s reports as presented was made by Kitty Heckendorf and seconded by Julie Chadburn.

Old Business: Sunrise Hospital Electronic Display is up and running except earlier tonight the TV was turned off. Discussion as to why the TV was off. Need to contact Diane and ask her what we can do to keep it running.

Sunrise Donation: The hospital confirmed that they want the donation from NCC to be in the form of Walmart gift cards.

Henderson Library -  photo class to be held on Thursday at Malcolm Library in Green Valley. This is the last of the night photography presentation for the Henderson Library.

Amendment to Constitution and By-Laws- on hold until next meeting.

27 of 27’s Award- reviewed merit changes and monthly rules changes. Still waiting for Anne Carter’s input.

Projector: Discussion to be reserved outside of E-Board between Dennis Gershick and Allan Duff.

New Business: Incentive to have members go electronic for newsletter- Susan Bouet will call new members who have joined within the last two years & try to urge them to go electronic.

Vendor Letter: Deyanira Flores inquiring as to legal wording for soliciting advertising gifts for the annual awards banquet.  Also, she would like to send a certificate or plaque to regular vendors who donate each year to show our appreciation for their generosity.

Electronic Screen Presentation- The E-Board discussed color imbalance. It was suggested that Dennis Gershick prepare notes so membership knows how to enter electronic images with proper color.  Paul Sobel agreed that he would learn more and write a guide or outline for the other members.

Membership: Susan Bouet notified the E-Board that there are 244 active members; 4 juniors, 121 beginners, 61 intermediates and 47 advanced.

Membership Cards: Dennis Gershick suggested re-design of the cards. Ideally, he would like to create a barcode so we can scan entries with the membership card. The cost for a four color design is approximately $1.00 each.  Deyanira Flores suggested turning the re-design into a graphic design contest

Mary Sheets discussed updating the accounting system.

Membership Committee: The function of this committee is to welcome people who come in. Dennis Gershick suggested signing in guests and giving them a name badge to wear during the July workshop. Kitty Heckendorf urged the E-Board to reimburse Dennis for the cost of the badge & clips that he already purchased.  Allan Duff will arrive at 5:30 to begin setting up the stations for the workshop.

Survey: Allan Duff went over the results of the survey that were submitted at a previous program meeting.  Some of the photographers that were enjoyed by the survey takers were  Robert O’Toole, Tyler Stableford, Hal Schmidt, Ben Wilmore and George Lepp.  The members would like to learn more about wildlife, landscape, travel, photoshop and lightroom.

Next year’s programs are already filled through August of next year.  Some suggestions for future program speakers include, Jerry Metellis, Lance Cheung, Sue Altenberg and Connie Palin.

Barbara Dupont won the best of show in the annual electronic competition. The NCC needs to make out a check in her name for $100.00.

Dennis Gershick brought up the domain registration. On average, the cost is $10.00 per domain name. Our domain is up for renewal on July 25^th. Instead of renewing for 2 yrs., Dennis wants to renew for 9 years for a total of $69.12.  Cindy Wilson made motion to approve renewal and it was seconded by Kitty Heckendorf. Motion passed.

Field Trips: Cindy Wilson discussed the turnout for the field trip at Smith Center. There were about 26 people who attended. She said there were about 8 to 10 people who showed up for the fireworks in Boulder City.  She is postponing the July 21^st field trip for a more convenient date.

Allan Duff recommended Sun Belt Auto Collection as a future field trip.

Meeting adjourned at 9:05 p.m.

Submitted by JarieLyn Robbins

It's kind of a boring job, but someone's got to do it and I do enjoy sitting on the board.

Last weekend I got paid to photograph a wedding. It was a really hot day and the wedding took place out on a golf course and everyone in the wedding party was melting. After the ceremony the wind picked up and a storm was rolling in which made for some dramatic photos. Take a look at some of my wedding pics from last week. Hope you enjoy.

I still have a lot of editing to do but the above photos are just a sampling of my work from last weekend.

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Cut and color

I always feel better after a visit to the hair Salon.

My Mother's Children

I've had a lot of things going on lately. Stealing a line from the movie, Friends With Benefits, "Magnum P.I. Couldn't Solve All The Shit Going On Inside My Head" The only thing that's kept me from dwelling in the dark cave for too long is visit from family. First, my mother-in-law was here at our house for about ten days and then just a couple of days later, my sister stayed at our house for two days, while the rest of my family including my parents and my two brothers stayed elsewhere in town over this past weekend. Thank Goodness I had all this chaos to distract me. So, although this Friday's My Town Shoot Out Theme is Children, I have a little different perspective. There are no children in my life, at least none that are close enough physically to take pictures of  and none that are really small. I thought I would showcase myself and my siblings since this past weekend was all about my mother wanting to make memories with all of her children together at the same time. I know it's really kind of going outside the theme a little bit but we are still my mother's children in her eyes, even though we are fully grown.  Enjoy the photos of our silliness.

My youngest brother, Joey, his girlfried Sarah, and my sister, Cheryl.

This is Saturday night at Outback Restaurant.

Our last night together with the whole family.

Joe (my stepdad)

My husband, Justin.

Me.

My sister, Cheryl.

 My oldest brother, Bobby (Robert, Bob)

My youngest brother, Joey (Joe)

Sarah, my brother Joey's girlfriend hid behind the menu right when I snapped the photo.

She is the one who inspired the above pictures.

My newphew, who is 16 decided to go back to the room and relax while we all chowed down at Outback. You know how teenagers are. They'd rather be doing their own thing.

Here's my 16 year old nephew, Forrest with his dad and my brother, Bobby.

That kid always makes the oddest expressions when getting his picture taken.

It doesn't do him justice.

This was Friday night at a mexican food restaurant.

Bobby and Cheryl. My bro and sis.

Bobby and me.

Joey and Sarah.

Me and Justin.

Cheryl and Me.  We love each other.

Justin and Cheryl.

In the lobby of Outback. My sister's foot.

Joey and Sarah.

my dad and mom.

Peace!

I am the oldest.  13 years older than my youngest brother.

My husband forgot to get in the picture.

So unfortunately, on Saturday my whole family, including my husband was out on the lake having fun without me. I wish I could have been out there too, but John Edward was in town and I purchased my ticket a month before I knew my family was coming. If the ticket had only been $20 or $40.00 I probably would have blown it off but I paid $200 for the ticket so I was gonna get my money's worth.

Here I am with John Edward. I got an autographed book as well.

His show was phenomenal and he is so funny and down to earth.

I enjoyed the show very much and made a couple of friends while in line for two hours.

But.............I still would have rather been out on the water improving upon my tan.

At Outback.

My parents at outback.

The only person missing from this shot is my nephew.

Me and Cheryl at the airport. Saying goodbye to my beautiful sister.

All of the above photos were taken last weekend.

Me and my brother last month in Bakersfield Ca. at Dewar's Candy Shop.

Me and Justin at Dewar's.

My oldest brother and my parents live in Bakersfield.

See that finger?  That's my sister-in-law's signature pose in photos.

It's hard to find a photo of her when she isn't flipping the bird.

Would you like to put a face to that picture?

Yeah..............................

I know you are curious. 

Haha

Yep, that's Tabbitha, my brother's wife.

She loves to flip the bird.

She's a lot of fun.

So jumping back into July.....................

My mohter-in-law was here for just over ten days.

I think the most fun she had was when I took her to the lake.

We went a couple of times and had I known that she would enjoy my favorite activity,

I would have taken her out there much sooner.

Hindsight is 20/20.

Here I am documenting myself at the lake. 

See that figure in the backround?

That's my mother-in-law lounging on her chair in the water.

We both got a little sunburned on this day but it was so relaxing.

I love the water and being out in the sunshine.

One of my favorite pictures of my furbaby. I'm not sure when this picture was taken but I think it was around 2005or 2006.

She went to heaven in June 2012.

Tabbith and Me. 2004

Man, I was skinny here.

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Kid Photo Shoot 2010

I know I've gone on and on.

I totaly forgot about the kid photo shoot until after I already posted my other pics.

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You Will Hear From Me, I Promise.

I'm sure the words in my title are familiar to most of you.

Somebody said those words to me last week and I've been floating on clouds for seven days now.

The thing about floating is that at some point the clouds disappear and we fall.

And when we do, we get hurt.

I can't count the number of times that my friends have let me down.

I feel like I'm always giving so much and I hardly get anything in return.

That's all!

A Little Bit Country

I'm a woman who enjoys all types of music but lately, I'm a little bit country.

I really love this song by Clay Walker.

I can imagine myself dancing to it with a partner, two stepping around the dance floor.

And course, anything by George Strait is A-OK with me.
I love his voice, his music and this song, which I believe is his newest on the radio.



Why is it that most all of the sexy songs are sung by men. Is it just me who thinks this?

I don't necessarily think Tim McGraw's song is sexy, but it's profound and I really like it.





A few years ago, I watched the TV Show Duet which was kind of like American Idol, only it was with partners and it was country music and one of the judges was Naomi Judd.  I loved this show and I rooted for Steel Magnolia the whole time. I just knew they were going to win and I was right. They are such a cute couple and they sing really well together. This isn't one of my favorite songs by them but I like the lyrics to it

My Take On 50 Shades

I'm sure by now that most of you have heard of the 50 Shades Trilogy. I bought all three books at the same time because I didn't want a cliff hanger if I decided I liked the story. No surprise here. I liked 50 Shades of Grey, the first book in the trilogy. I liked it a lot. Men, take notice. Women do think about sex and we do get turned on. Whereas men on average are visual creatures and can easily get a hard on by looking at a naked or half naked body in a magazine, women can read descriptive erotic romance and get very turned on. Yes,we get physically turned on and our bodies emit electrical pulses to inform us that we are indeed feeling sexual. Making my escape from real life, I thrust myself into 50 Shades and let myself enjoy the erotic sensations.

While in the realm of 50 Shades I also escaped deeper into fantasy and visualized myself alongside the characters. It was similar to an out of body experience where I am floating above my body and viewing myself partake in the action. I suppose that everyone who reads uses all of their senses to fully enjoy the narrative. The writer describes the character's features and we see in our mind's eye what that character looks like by what we are told. We can also hear sounds as we read. Sight and sound are probably the easiest senses to come to life while reading a good book. But when you are able to fully engage all  of your senses, then the author has done his/her job very well. E. L. James was able to engage all of my senses. By that, I mean that I was in a sense alive in the pages. I was the character she was writing about, only my name isn't Ana and my lover isn't Christian, but it was me living out my own story in a way. And no, I don't mean that I have an alternate lifestyle it's just that I was able to relate.

I delved into 50 Shades Darker full of anticipation and expectations. Well, the thing about expectations is that you never get what you are expecting. I expected the pages to take me down a dark, black tunnel full of pain. The kind of pain that is pleasurable to some. I anticipated Christian corrupting his beloved Ana into a world of sadomasochism where she is fully under his control. Well, the darker shades of Grey (referring to Christian) was an abused little boy who grew into adulthood being 50 shades of fucked up. The second book is good, yet his story seems incomplete. I want to know more about his Dominatix, Elena, the one who supposedly trained him to be the same. Maybe the third book will tell more of his story. I guess I will have to finish it to find out. All I know is that during the second book, I kind got tired of all the sex. It wasn't as exciting as in the first book. For one thing, they are having sex every five minutes it seems. Don't get me wrong, I love sex scenes. I like the erotic romance and the descriptive action, but there's only so much detail I can handle. It was driving me freaking crazy. I just wanted them to jump each others bones without all the hearts and flowers and romance. It just got to be a little much. I mean really, they were having sex on every two or three pages and it was way too much detail to get to that point. It was monotonous. No man could ever keep up like that in real life, not even a 25 or 30 year old, unless of course he's 50 shades of fucked up.

I didn't write this post intending it to be a book review but it kind of turned into one. I started out to write more dangerously, to express myself the way I really am instead of what I think people want me to say. I hope I can continue to write more dangerously at the advice of Jeff Goins, writer of this amazing article.  What I really wanted to convey in this post is that I get turned on. When I see a super good looking guy with a hard stomach and great hair and smile, that turns me on. A guy who isn't afraid to wear a turtleneck turns me on. But just seeing a naked guy in general does nothing for me at all. I don't care if his dick is bigger than anyone else's, it just doesn't do it for me. If I were a single woman and you wanted to start my juices flowing. I'd tell you to do something kind, thoughtful and generous for me, and in return, I'd make you very happy in a way that only a man could appreciate.