Category: personal

I know that this is not directly photography related, but since many of us do our own web work I decided to pass along my thoughts.

Yahoo Small Business has a lack of customer support that has pushed me over the edge. I have been with them for over two years, and have been patient and understanding, but I’ve finally had it after spending hours this weekend trying to get help with some issues, and getting nothing for it but a pain in the neck.

I will sometimes call and get half decent help if it’s something simple. Anything else and I usually know more than the tech even though I am not an expert. If anything tough comes up they don’t care whit, and will barley try. They just pawn you off to email support which is absolutely horrible, and does not follow up worth beans. Not to mention that anyone who is having a real problem does not want email support. They want someone on the phone who can help them so that they don’t waste a ton of time.

Yahoo does offer some nice features, especially for people getting started in web sites, but as you get more experienced you find that they lack in areas that a knowledgeable web master wants. Things like .htaccess configuration, php memory and others. If you everything goes right, and you don’t need a lot then you’ll be fine. But if you run into a real problem and call for help you can expect a blank duh from someone who is supposed to be experiences, but does not even know what your saying.

After two to three years of increasing dissatisfaction I have decided to dump yahoo and find a host who cares. There are many better hosts for less money. I have found good reviews on Host Gator web hosting and have decided to give them a try.

Perhaps yahoo will get their act together in the future, and get real about serving their customers.

Gavin Seim

Wow time flies, and my wedding is in less than two weeks. Pretty scary, but I’m looking forward to it. Sondra and I are going on a two week vacation for our honey, with no specific destination. We’re just going to explore, travel, relax, and take pictures.

Our Wedding Photographer is Cory Polis and I’m really looking forward to seeing the images. I know that the men aren’t usually into the photo’s, buy what can I say. I’m a wedding photographer. I’ll post up some pics for everyone to see. We’re having the ceremony in Moses Lake, and then a reception in Ephrata.
I know I haven’t been posting mush up lately, but you know how it goes. Time just runs away from us.

Gav

So I Gavin went and did it. I popped the question to my girl of two years, and she said yes. I knew she would because she made it very clear she wanted me to, but it was still fun.

I took Sondra out in the country for a photo session, and had the ring in my pocket. There are some photo’s I took below. Most are posed, but the first one is actually the moment I pulled out the ring. I set the timer, sat beside her, and pulled it out just as the camera fired. Notice the open mouthed look on her face. Pretty fun.

I’m excited, but also a little nervous. It’s a big step. Though I did take my own engagement photo’s, I don’t intend to take my own wedding photo’s. That would just not work very well lol.

Here’s the moment I gave it to her. Nope this is not a reenactment.

This weekend I did some more shooting for Sea Galley in Yakima. Had a good time, and got some good shots for a table tent going up for some Christmas treats.

After there shooting there was some left, and let me tell you both these pies are unreal. They just melt in your mouth. It was a significant challenge because we wanted to get the seasonal theme into the shot, but still show the pie well. Also pecan pie is not easy to work with in an image an make look really good. Overall I’m pretty happy worth the outcome, and I know that in a few days when these things go on the tables that these pies will sell like hotcakes (well actually pies)

The challenge on food shooting is from every angle, but it’s rewarding (if you know what I mean) It seems that every time you have a new item to shoot the rules change, because of the way it needs to be presented to look good.

I look forward to shooting more deserts lol… Gavin