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These days I use a combination of Picasa, Picnik and Nikon D40 (the one I lost) to try to snag a bit of time as it flies by.

I am not a professional photographer. I do take a lot of photographs and have been blessed with a DSLR. I spent all of last week in Asheville documenting my sister’s wedding.

I took around 4,000 photographs. I’ve whittled it down to just under 1,000. I’m still whittling.

I’m post-processing now and narrowing it down even more. Cropping, coloring, resizing. You know the drill.

Go here to see the photos on which I’m working.

This the view from our the cabin in Asheville.

Tomorrow morning the Bush crew will be traveling due east to Asheville, North Carolina. My sister is getting married a week from Saturday and we’ll be spending the week leading up to it with the entire family (plus some friends). I’m the official wedding photographer and I need a little help.

Because there won’t be internet access where we’ll be staying for the week, I won’t be able to access my normal photo editor. So, I’ll have to use Gimp.

Unfortunately, I don’t really know how to use Gimp yet. Here’s where you come in (hopefully).

Anybody know of a Gimp tutorial (PDF maybe?) that I could download before we leave the land of high-speed internet? I have found a few, but none are comprehensive.

If you know of something send me an email: thefamilybush @ gmail Thanks!

MABTS is putting together some promotional material. They asked if I would be in a few pictures (probably because of my awesome beard). I managed to snag a bit of it on Gawker for your viewing pleasure. Brad Johnson, recent graduate of MABTS and current bookstore manager, is the photographer. I used to be on staff at GSFBC with Brad. He is the man.

Also known as “Maynard”. Why? Well, because if he burps like a “Maynard” and poops like a “Maynard”, then he must be a “Maynard”.

[No offense to anyone out there named Maynard.]

. . . a little exercise in achieving some sense of depth . . .

It’s funny what camera’s will do with too much light. This is a shot of three bottles sunbathing in the kitchen window at my parents’ house.