The past few weeks have been busy, leaving little time to write. Karen and I had the privilege to participate in the creation of the directory for our church. I was tasked with taking photos (in a hurry) and we had to really focus to try and depict all the ministries of the church. I ended up shooting about 1700 photos in 2 weeks.

Of those 1700, about 350 made the preliminary cut and after the committee review we settled on 38 for placement. I was so thankful for the new camera I bought in March, a Canon G6. It takes great pics in the auto mode, which I used a lot, and has the versatility to do great under low light conditions in fully manual mode.

There's a lot to learn about it, but this was a crash course taking photos that really had to count.

Then there was a change in committee leadership and with one day to go Karen and I assumed the lead. Having to get up to speed, finalize the layout and copy, and figure out the process of submitting the project was a challenge.

After it was over, it wasn't. There were several days getting the final reports and copies of the submission documents and rosters to the appropriate folk at church, prepare disks of all the photos for an archive and create an album of all the unused photos.

During all that our sister site, Front Line Report, was down for a week and as soon as that was up I began receiving letters and photos from SSgt. Michael Carnes who is deployed with the 391st Engineering Battalion to Afghanistan. He had some great photos and interesting letters.

They had to go up and so I began creating the pages and photo galleries to feature him. Visit the site and read about things from the perspective of "eyes on the ground."

With that all caught up, now I have to concentrate on the business of the home, about a months worth of financial transactions to be recorded, basic maintenance around the house, and back to the task of the daily regimen of taking care of my aging body.

Ah well...the excitement was fun while it lasted!

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