I believe I mention my wife an average of about 14.2 times per blog entry because, you know, I love her a whole bunch. I'm not sure if I mentioned it here, but she took the plunge into her own full time photography business at the end of August this year and she's been doing fantastic!

Can't resist them brown eyes...

She's been into photography for several years now, getting steadily more and more passionate about it and becoming more and more talented, and she finally turned in her 3 month notice (yes, my lady is extremely considerate) and went full steam ahead, basically working 2 jobs for her last few months at her day job. She has now been in it, working hard, kicking ass and taking names (and photos) for the last 2 months all on her own, and I can't tell you how proud I am of her!

As if that wasn't enough, she already has her very first gallery show coming up in November! She partnered up with her friend Colleen and their show has a "vibrant color" theme dubbed "Chromatic" at Surface Gallery in Bakersfield, California.

I believe they're showing about 20 pieces each and the show will be going for 2 months staring November 7th. We'll be heading down to Bakersfield for the opening party, so if you're in the area make sure you come check it out! Here's the info:

November 7, 2008 5-8 p.m.
The Surface Gallery
1703 20th St.
Bakersfield, CA. 93301

Hope to see you there, the little lady has earned buttloads of high fives!

I'm not doing much for work on the side these days because of this strange desire to "maintain sanity"— whatever that means right? But I do make an exception for very special people. One such project was fairly recently launched called Exposaroonie. It is a really awesome photo community/challenge site created by my wife and her pal Emily.

Don't let the caption give you any dirty ideas with my wife's site, capiche?

They are a couple of talented photographers and decided to collaborate and create this site on the premise of helping aspiring and experienced photographers alike with articles and interviews and with their weekly Exposaroonie Challenge, where you submit your photography based on a different theme every week and then the winner is voted on the following week. I did the design and back end of the site including the logo (which I think is pretty sweet) and the templates were a bit of a challenge because half of the site is run in Google Blogger and half of it on my own server. I personally think my design could be much better, but my limited knowledge of the Blogger template system made it tough, but the ladies love it and I'm sure it will evolve over time.

So go check the site out! Let me know what you think! And if you are into photography, get started with this week's challenge, 'Bad Habits'. Could be fun/gross/awesome! Fungrossawesome!