Nephew, Nephew, Niece with Studio Lighting

Nephew, originally uploaded by SoLostAndFound / Bill Lindsay.

Here are the next batch of siblings. The oldest is missing here since he could not come. I tried for something different here as well. If I can corner the oldest to get him to match,these will make a fun group to put up at their house. Maybe a full group for grandma?....

It is definitely different then what I grew up with. I had 2 cousins and an aunt and uncle. On my dads side it was a little more confusing. I know of some, but we really don't have much contact with them. But marriage into my wife's family, that is a big extended family. It is fun for my daughters and good to be a part of such a big thing.

Strobist Info: Shot with a Novatron V600D and 3 Flash Heads. Two had Umbrellas or Soft Boxes and the third had a snoot.

EXIF Data,

Camera:	Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Exposure:	0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture:	f/5.6
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Thanks for looking.

Bill Miller at JohnnyCash.com

Just a quick update on the Johnny Cash Guild Guitar, Bill Miller sent me an email and you can listen to his internet radio show and endulge yourself in all things Johnny Cash at his web site, 

JohnnyCash.com

How fun to meet two neat guys invovled in one of American Musics best, Johnny Cash.  Thanks to both of you.

Nephews with Studio Lighting

Nephew, originally uploaded by SoLostAndFound / Bill Lindsay.

A few months back I had the garage studio up and when the family came to visit, the kids wanted thier pictures taken. Not all at first, but it turned into that. I will post them by family. These brothers have a cute sister, but I did not get to shoot her here. 

Thanks for looking.

Strobist Info: Shot with a Novatron V600D and 3 Flash Heads. Two had Umbrellas or Soft Boxes and the third had a snoot.

EXIF Data,

Camera:	Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Exposure:	0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture:	f/5
Focal Length:	38 mm
ISO Speed:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV

Jerre Haskew, Former President Of Guild

I got this from Jerre Haskew, the former president of Guild , some of the most beautiful sounding guitars in the world.  He wanted to clear up a question I had regarding a guitar that Johnny Cash played and is on display in Corona, California at the Fender Guitar Center.  It is part of a display of memorabilia from Johnny that is part of the collection of his friend, Bill Miller.  When I went to the guild site, I tried to run the serial numbers on the guitar to see how long Johnny had been playing guild.  He said in his note to Bill when he gave the guitar to him that he had been playing that guitar for 10 years.  Jerre Haskew as you will read, gave him the guitar.  

Thanks for the note Jerre, I have contacted the Fender Guitar Center, but have not gotten a reply as to how to get to Bill Miller. I also think that I have found Bill on the web and have sent him a message as well.

Bill,

 

Stumbled across your great website and saw these pictures of one of Johnny Cash's two identical Guild D60R cherry sunburst top guitars. My name is Jerre Haskew, and I was President & CEO of Guild from 1986-1991. I personally delivered these two guitars to John at the House of Cash in Hendersonville, TN in the fall of 1987. There were two of these- identical- that I gave to him in exchange for his endorsement of Guild, which I got in a talk with him on an airplane to Boston in the late summer of 1987. When I delivered these guitars, I spent most of the day with him, and he was among the nicest, most humble, literate, intelligent and gracious people I have ever met. He LOVED these guitars. They were hand made in the USA at the Guild factory in Westerly, RI under the supervision of Guild master luthier Kim Walker.

 

You have solved a mystery for me as to what happened to this particular guitar. Where is Bill Miller located- the friend to whom John gave this guitar? FYI the other one just like it was sold at auction at Sotheby's in NY City a few months after John's passing. I am attaching a few pics for you to use if you like. These pictures are owned by me.

 

I can CONFIRM that John was a VERY loyal endorser and exclusive player of Guild from 1987- 1993/1994. You can also see him playing this guitar on www.youtube.com type highwaymen in the search box and scroll down. This was the supergroup of John, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings & Kris Kristofferson.

 

Thanks again, Bill, for helping me find what happened to the other guitar I gave him.

 

My Best,

 

Jerre

Jerre R Haskew
The Haskew Company
The Cumberland Trio & Fiery Gizzard Records/Music, LLC

Here are the Pics that he included.

Here comes some posting...

So I posted a mea culpa a bit back and I have been catching up on the editing that needed to be done for all the pics that are in limbo. It is amazing what can snowball and turn what was fun into a giant todo list. I lost about 3 months of pics with the hard drive crash, but I have been shooting a bunch and am posting again to flickr. So now I need to get to posting here. I was thinking that I would get everything onto flickr and then count backward to start the numbering again. But, I will just start today and get stuff up. From here on out, no more day number, since the 365 project crashed and burned in the exact sense, but since I did shoot for it, just lost a lot in the crash, I did complete it. Now I am just going to blog what I shoot, and try to post every day. I thank you all who have checked in, sent emails and commented. Good luck to the photography club in Washington, I wish I could join, if you all want to move south....  

Mea Culpa

Here is the Mea Culpa no photographer ever wants to write, I did not do a good job with backups.  

You know, keeping your only version of so many shots safe and protected with intelligent use of backup tools that are so easy to use.  I lost about 3 or 4 months of pictures and that will mean that all that stuff that I was putting off and only had to post will not ever be posted.  

My iMac went down and I had not used Time Machine for about 3 or 4 months.  I will say, that the auto back-up is easy, but it was chewing through the external hard drive space that I used to keep the iMac unloaded.  Then I got busy and had not backed up and the bad luck hit.   

Apple was great, they thought that it could have been a power spike (not covered by the 3 year warranty) but stood behind the extended warranty anyway.  They put in a new logic board, power supply and hard drive anyway.  I don't know that it was a power spike since I have everything on surge protectors and nothing else on the that strip went down. 

This gets interesting, I had thought that I might do better getting stuff done if I bought a MacBook Pro and got my workflow out of the office and mobil.  I bought a MacBook Pro and am putting the iMac up for sale.  Now here is the lucky part, I had already bought the MacBook Pro and had the really important photo shoots on and external hard drive so I could work on them with the new MacBook Pro.  I was behind on the 2 weddings I shot and the family portraits that I did for some friends.  I thought that if I had them mobil I would get more done.  

So, think about your pictures, what would happen if you lost your hard drive?  I had all the old stuff archived on external hard drives, but lost the new stuff.  Down side is I won't be able to load all those images that I shot for me, upside, I am not that behind anymore....  LOL!  

Thanks for looking and think about your backups, boring but it will save you from the gut check when you figure out what you lost.

Hello, I know, I have not updated for a bit.  I have a boatload of stuff to post, I have just been hammered and as such, I will catch up.  I appreciate all the hits, and the notes about my lack of attention to this.  

Thanks, see you soon.