Maintain the Magic, people.
Much like it being the “The Happiest Place on Earth”, there has to be belief before there’s magic.
Conceptual
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Feb 12
Be Nice
Some of the most interesting things around me almost get stepped on.
Even though The American Theme Park documentary has slowed down, I still keep my eyes open for interesting objects, people and actions, and keep an open mind while scouring the grounds. This was found near our hotel near some bushes. It’s discarded, but its point was likely made to it’s young intended audience. I can only imagine the back story to this. These are some of things that interest me the most – where you see a fragment of the story, but so much information can be gathered from it. Sibling rivalries, parents struggling to control their children, anger management problems, or even relationship problems; it’s possible. Written words can be so powerful.
What gets me: it looks like Mickey Mouse wrote it.
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Jan 12
Smile More
It starts in your head. If you start to think positively, you carry yourself positively. Then you begin to speak positively and eventually start acting and interacting positively with others. Soon enough, you begin to be known as an overall happy person and others start to be spirit-lifting around you. Good things happen from there.
Smile more. It’s contagious.
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Dec 11
The Best Buy Crowd
This candid group portrait reflects the anticipation yet the boredom that was going on in the front of the line at the Best Buy on Blanding Blvd in Jacksonville. Some people are smoking, some are chatting; some people are smiling and others are ready to finally get into the store. The police presence is also apparent. Some people seem to react negatively and almost paranoid when there’s a law enforcer around, as if they’re out to get them – as if they’re there to watch your every move.
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Dec 11
Two TVs
How many televisions do you really need? How many will you buy in a lifetime?
The row of cashiers at Wal-Mart is always somewhat disastrous between the slew of people, hap-hazardous cashiers in crunch time, and the aftermath debris of receipts and plastic bags that is left on the ground. It can really be a war zone. On this day, this store had every single register open, each of which had a line several people long (almost all with television sets).
There’s something to be said about our cheap electronic and appliances. Sometimes, they’re just so cheap that they’re not financially worth repair and maintenance. For less than what it would cost to get some appliances repaired or fixed, say for a coffee maker or a toaster, you can get a new one. So you just throw the other one out. Where did our quality products go? One that you would buy once and would last you a lifetime?
That’s my goal when buying most things – buy it for life. Buy it once, maintain it, and have it last as long as possible.
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Dec 11
The Spending Begins
The doors are open and the wallets come out. People scream with excitement. Young, old, men and women, all in search of the bargain electronic door busters.
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Dec 11
Best Buy and Lawn Chairs
As Best Buy was doing their final preparations to finally open, I did my last tour around the line that wrapped around the corner and found this gem. The photo says more than I can describe, though. The young man is sitting, watching the entertaining people. The police are there to prevent and stampeding and overall chaos. And it’s all taking place at Best Buy, one of the more popular and busy Black Friday retailers.
Gotta love it.
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Nov 11
Black (and White) Friday Kickoff
My Black Friday plans didn’t even include my wallet. I decided to hitch around the area and see the crowds, as well as the inside action taking place at the registers and sales floors. My loop of stores included some of the more popular retailers: Target, Best Buy, Toys R Us, Wal-Mart, and even the Orange Park Mall (to my surprise). I was only able to actually go inside two of them, Wal-Mart and the OP Mall, as the other ones had lines that would have taken two hours to get through. But since those stores were only letting about fifty people through at a time, the action I was looking for wasn’t going to take place. Wal-Mart and the mall, on the other hand, had open doors. Wal-Mart was of course the most hectic, as they simply place palettes of merchandise our and have the customers fend for themselves, creating the most turmoil.
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Nov 11
Website Refresh
Wedding Dance
This is the first image that you are see when you visit my newly updated Portfolio Website. Choosing a photo for this responsibility is always a touch choice. I decided on this one on account that it is a hybrid between two of my styles and main avenues of photography.
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Nov 11
“It Makes The Perfect Gift”
It’s not even Thanksgiving and the decorations are already out. Big retailers are running Black Friday shop-til-you-drop-starting-at-midnight commercials, guaranteeing the lowest prices and even layaway. We are beckoned to “save” a little here yet spend the most in these four weeks than we did most of the year.
I’ve been bombarded with ads from Wal-Mart and Target, ads about spending on awesome toys for your husband and the kids so you can be that Super Mom that you hear about.
The Holiday Spending Season is upon us. It’s time to get my camera out. Some ideas are kicking around. I’ll see you on Black Friday.