Fair/Funnel Cake Booth Photographs from the Summer

Here are some of the images of some friends and I when we went to local fairs. Also, images from a funnel cake booth one of my friends works at with his parents. I really started to fall in love with not only the beautiful colors that are always present at carnivals but with the abstract lighting in the background of portrait photographs I took.

"I kind of like things slightly out of tune. It makes me feel... intoxicated almost... but in a good way. Like I'm at a carnival in a dream."

-Christine Anderson

Photoshoot from June with Vinnie!

So as promised I am posting the photographs that I took during the summer and neglected to put up on my blog. He is the first of many postings in the next week or so.

"Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play."
-Montaigne

Time to up my game

So aparrently I'm awful at this blogging thing. It's the same as when I was younger and every year I would beg my mom to buy me a journal and then I would keep up with it for approximately two weeks to only have the journal turn into my doodle book, filled with quotes, kindergarten-like drawings, and poems that are just about the worst thing anyone could come up with.

Not that I need to have an excuse for why I have not been keeping up with said blog but it was the busy season at my full time job and working over 50 hours a week doesn't really lit a fire under me it just makes me crash and burn.

So here is my pledge:
I will make an effort to update my blog at least once a week, for more than just two weeks.

What I'm working on:
-Getting together a new website, the college one I realize is rather gloomy
-Editing photographs of two different family portraits for side jobs
-Posting photographs from the summer!
-Editing the photographs from the church apple dumplin day


To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
-Shakespeare

Success...

Well the One-A-Days did not work out as planned. I think the reason that it didn't work out was due to the fact that I was extremely busy with the studio I work for and shooting my own stuff on the side. So if you think about it I was not succeeding at my blog due to me succeeding at other assignments. I am changing the other site to just be photos that I take in my everyday life, but at a pace that I can keep up with instead of one a day.

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

-Colin Powell

Launch of One-A-Days!

So I am happy to report my One-A-Days Project is now up and running.

Please check it out!

One-A-Days



"There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream."

-Author Unknown

More logo attempts....

So here are some more of the logos... Not really sure if any are better than last time.

Let me know your thoughts. Thanks!

Some Inspiration.

So today I was thinking of how much work I have been putting into everything revolving around the marketing aspect of the photography business I am trying to establish. It seems like so much time and effort and not much to show. Every time I get a little frustrated that things are not happening fast enough (which I think everyone goes through now and then) I remember a quote that always cheers me up.


"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
-Robert Collier


Now I don't agree with a lot of what Robert Collier preaches about but I think this quote is such a great line. Nothing that is worth while in life just comes easy, it takes a lot of production and persistence but as long as you always work with the passion you have and take it one step at a time then anything is possible. As I was looking through the internet today I found a poem that I wanted to share because it is just so simple but so great at the same time. Enjoy.

How do you tackle your work?
By Edgar A. Guest

How do you tackle your work each day?
Are you scared of the job you find?
Do you grapple the task that comes your way
With a confident, easy mind?
Do you stand right up to the work ahead
Or fearfully pause to view it?
Do you start to toil with a sense of dread
Or feel that you're going to do it?

You can do as much as you think you can,
But you'll never accomplish more;
If you're afraid of yourself, young man,
There's little for you in store.
For failure comes from the inside first,
It's there if we only knew it,
And you can win, though you face the worst,
If you feel that you're going to do it.

Success! It's found in the soul of you,
And not in the realm of luck!
The world will furnish the work to do,
But you must provide the pluck.
You can do whatever you think you can,
It's all in the way you view it.
It's all in the start that you make, young man:
You must feel that you're going to do it.

How do you tackle your work each day?
With confidence clear, or dread?
What to yourself do you stop and say
When a new task lies ahead?
What is the thought that is in your mind?
Is fear ever running through it?
If so, just tackle the next you find
By thinking you're going to do it

Now on Facebook!

This is just a short little entry. I now have a page on facebook.com! Someone was a busy little be tonight....

So check it out:

K.G.Bauman on facebook!

New logo - Need some advice

So I have been working on a new logo, as you know, as part of my vamping of my look (website will soon be next on the to do list!) So I have decided on the how I would like the logo to look as well as the text in the logo. I do need some help on deciding on a color. Here's the one's I like...

If you have any suggestions about the logo at all please feel free to voice them. Thanks everyone!

"I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression."

-Margaret Fuller

NEW CAMERA!!!!

So so SO excited! So I have received my new camera, the Nikon D700 and I am in love! I am currently reading through the manual so I can figure out all the gadgets behind it. I have also thought of a new idea for my blog.

I want to start a separate blog from this one that is a photograph a day taken by my new favorite camera. I'm thinking of calling it K.G. Bauman's One-A-Days. Stay tuned for more information!

"The excitement of learning seperates youth from old age. As long as you're learning, you're not old."

-Rosalyn S. Yalow