My Eternal Media

This is an damaged older photo of a lady and her sister. My wife works with one of them and the picture was stuck to the glass, which had cracked, and they wanted to see if it was salvageable. Not a full on restoration on this one, just a fun keepsake.

Sisters - Original

Sisters - Fixed

They like to keep me busy, and I like being kept busy. Here is another Sales Flier they asked me to create.

Sales Flier

One of my favorite things about the Christmas season is all the letters we get from family and friends about everything that has happened in the past year. Along with our Christmas letter we sent this… enjoy!

This is quite late but with Cheris graduating, remodeling our home, and our daughter Riann being born, we didn’t get around to it. But here it is, finally.

My Wife graduated college and we decided to put together this announcement to send out to family. Hope you like it!

Mama’s feet, Papa’s feet, and Baby’s feet. This is a pose that I love in black and white. It’s a little creepy in color just because of the fleshy color of feet, but it’s really cute and the best when you’ve got baby feet to include.

My wife and I were down in Utah for a good friends wedding and we were asked to do some family portraits by another friend. We did tons of shots and different poses but I wanted to share this one with you. And if you’ve ever tried to take pictures with an infant, you know how hard it is to even get them to behave this well.

This is the first shot, just looked kind of weird with her hand in there holding the baby feet in place;

So we took another one. Of course she was flailing her feet all over but it’s what would be behind the feet that I needed to combine them.

So here it is after I took the best of both, got rid of some distracting flip-flops, and converted to black and white.

It’s not really eye catching so i’ll try to keep this a short post, but I’m very excited about my new video transferring capabilities.

For months and months I borrowed and bought old 8mm/Hi8 camcorders to try and get some of my customers’ videos transferred over to DVD. Six of the Seven camcorders I obtained wouldn’t send out any signal from the tape, I think they’d record just fine but there wasn’t any way to VIEW anything. Finding a 8mm/Hi8 camcorder in “working condition” on ebay or craigslist was costing $150 every time and more often than not, the dang things weren’t “working” the way I needed them to. So I set out to find a brand new machine or even an adapter of some sort that would transfer these outdated formats. The trouble is that nobody makes anything of the sort, except SONY.
I have been in close contact with just about everyone over at SONY trying to get my hands on one of their super-limited-production 8mm tape transferring VCR’s. It took me about 5 months and several hundreds of dollars to get my hands on one, but I had over 100 tapes from customers WAITING on this little machine. Now it’s time to start processing these babies. See my Prices and Video sections for details on getting your old 8mm or Hi8 tapes converted to DVD. Because I guarentee that you’ll run into the same dead end after dead end frustration of failures that I did if you don’t have one of these machines.

There’s not much to say about this flier, they liked my other one so much they asked me to use that template to create a Slush Puppie Plus version for them. Here it is.

This is one of my favorites. Last year for Christmas my siblings and I decided that we were going to do a Family Photo of us kids (and spouses/kids) for my parents as a Christmas gift. We all got dressed up and went to the park and took a bunch of different shots of a bunch of different poses. Once we figured we had enough shots we went home a looked through them all. We all decided on this one of us on a bridge, except in each of the shots someone was always blinking or doing something “un-photogenic.” Luckily for me, I noticed that between the two different pictures we could make one good one. So I got to work. Here are the two originals;

As you can see, neither one is quite good enough for a Family Photo that’ll be proudly displayed in my parents home for years and years. So, taking the best of both photo’s, this is the final product!

For the last few weeks I’ve been working on some advertising fliers for a company called Harlan Fairbanks. They’re mainly a Canadian company that deals with “Specialty Food & Beverage Systems” but they’ve got an office in my hometown of Seattle, Washington. They approached me about doing a Harlan flier template that they could re-use for each promotion as it changes. They also wanted a more specific flier that would be geared toward a line of product they sell called Slush Puppie, but they still wanted it to be a template so they could update it accordingly. This sort of job isn’t my typical line of work but I’m surprised to find that many of the techniques are one in the same. They supplied me with all the text they wanted to use and a large collection of stock photos to pull from, but other than that there wasn’t too much that was set in stone. What I did was to take cue’s from some of their existing materials as a base, including the feel of their website, and create a new medium from there. That’s probably enough rambling, here’s the final products – front then back of each.