OFFER ACCEPTED ON TWIN HAVEN
OFFER ACCEPTED! Once a
year I buy a lakefront property because of two main reasons: 1)
for vacation rentals it's amazing - anyone interested in investing in
real estate this is a gr…
SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING
Shot using the cool video function on my Fuji S20.
WHAT A DEPRESSING DAY IN PARADISE
It's
so beautiful here in Hawaii that I thought - hm how cool it would be to
have a condo here. So my friend David Hessemer referred me to a
realtor and showed us around the islan…
IF YOU HAVE A MAC AND YOU DOWNLOAD YOUR BANKING TRANSACTIONS INTO QUICKEN OR QUICKBOOKS WOW WILL YOU LOVE THIS THING
If this thing cost $5,000 it
would be a bargain, and yet it is only $16. If you download your
banki…
WHALE WATCHING NEAR MOLOKINI WITH DAVID HESSEMER
Last
night we just had a great evening with David and his wife
Stephanie. David went to my Digital Intensive and Wealth Building
workshops and immediately went into…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY
Today is Melissa's 26th
birthday. It actually started at 6pm last
night because technically since she was born in Ohio and it's six hours
ahead, it started at 6pm last night the 25th. Will it …
SUNSET OVER KIHEI
Click on image to enlarge :)
DIGITAL INFRARED MAUI STYLE
COLLAGE OF IMAGES FROM TODAY
Pretty much achieved only one thing today - a sunburn! Click on collage to view today's images:
Melissa has more on her Xanga site: click here
SNEAK PREVIEW OF INSTANTMOVIESONLINE.COM NEW WEBSITE!
We've
just updated the instantmoviesonline.com website. The feedback
we've gotten from users has been incredible - the ones who are most
successful are the on…
VINCENT LAFORET
When we got to PIDE in San Diego, we ran into Denis Reggie who was staying
in our hotel. He was just raving about this New York Times
Photojournalist, Vincent LaForet - he said you will not believ…
CALLING ALL LIGHTSPHERE OWNERS- CAN U EMAIL ME A PIC?
I'm
putting together a marketing thing and I would like to have a collage
page of happy owners of LS2's holding them, using them (for photography
get your mind …
THANKS JIM!
Yeah I thought I was gonna keel over. What am I doing
answering emails? Anyway, I really enjoy photographers and all of
the energy and excitement about improving skills and business.
The show was…
HI FROM THE GRAND WAILEA RESORT, MAUI
This is really a photographer's paradise. I'm going to do a fine
art book on Maui and we are here during an awesome time of year.
No crowds, weather is in the 80's in the …
I WILL NOT BE ANSWERING EMAILS FOR ABOUT 18 HOURS -We are en route to Hawaii. For all shipping inquiries - please email my dad at chekfong4@yahoo.com
THANK YOU SAN DIEGO YOU WERE A GREAT CROWD
It
was so much fun seeing you and trying to cram as much as possible into
a two hour presentation. There's Joe Buissink and his girlfriend
Marilyn sitting in the …
I LOVE THIS SIGN THING AT THE "W" HOTEL
It's
a flick switch and you go between work and play. It's fun!
Late last night I was working on the computer and Melissa turned all the
lights off. I said, hey what's up …
DOGSPHERE
I GET SO MUCH FLACK ABOUT A $120K WEDDING JUST LOOK AT THIS BREAKFAST ROOM SERVICE BILL AT THE "W" IN SAN DIEGO
There
is all this talk of "value", "hype", "buzz" and "marketing" in the
discussions about wedding phot…
FREE VIP PASS TO THE PHOTO IMAGING AND DESIGN EXPO SAN DIEGO!
The VIP Pass offers a free
exhibit hall badge, or $30 off a 3-Day Conference Pass. Hope to
see you here, we've arrived in San Diego and the weather's gr…
WOW MY PRICE INCREASE SURE HAS RAISED A DISCUSSION
It's crazy. There seem to
be two camps, 1) Good for Gary for doing that and it's time I raised my
prices too and 2) How dare he. You can see an example of the
di…
I FEEL BAD
Recently, I locked horns with a
customer and I really regret it and it weighs heavily on me. Like
normally when I get annoying emails I just don't let it bug me, but
this guy said some uncool things abo…
I AM SO EXCITED WE GET TO SPEND FOUR WEEKS TOGETHER!
I
know what she's going to say, couldn't you have found a better
picture? You can see a better photo of her at her website at http://www.xanga.com/missycarl
B…
I LOVE MY WEBCAMS!
As soon as someone walks in the sensor area, it sends me an email with
an image. But don't get all curious Nicole and her sister Tara
are staying at the condo (I'm sleeping in my sailboat) but th…
WHAT WILL THEY THINK OF NEXT?
This
thing is a cell-phone, credit card swiper. I searched all over
the internet for it because now that we are in the trade-show world, I
had to find a new technology that would spee…
NEXT STOP: SAN DIEGO
We are getting all geared up for
the Photo Imaging and Design Expo - this should be another huge
convention and trade show with an expected turnout of thousands. I will be speaking at 2:00pm …
MAD DASH TO THE FINISH LINE
The theater is the Okanagan Lake Castle is coming along pretty cool, I'm excited!
This is kind of a computer rendering of what we're going to have except
the walls are going to be a ch…
KRISTEN ALEXANDER RULES FUJIFILM.COM
Wow
I can't imagine how many people to go fujifilm.com's corporate website
but Kristen Alexander got her image published at the opening screen at http://www.fujifilm.com
Way t…
TERRIFIC EXAMPLE OF DOING THINGS IN A POWERFUL WAY
MJ
of Tampa Photo came to my Wealth Building Workshop in Miami last year
and sends me her studio newsletters. This newsletter is EXACTLY
an example of the message…
2005 STUDIO PRICE LIST PUBLISHED
It's into the first quarter of 2005 and I am a little late getting my price list for 2005 at Storybook
online but I just finished it. I just thought it would be
interesting since many…
I DIDN'T THINK HE SURVIVED
This isn't even as gnarly as it looked in real life. This Ford
Bronco was 1/2 the width as usual and um, do you see the blood on the
windshield? The inside of the truck was like a red…
HUMPBACK WHALE SOUNDS
My friend David Hessemer from Maui, Hawaii just sent me a recording of
whale sounds that he took from his Zodiac boat. He has a
microphone and you can hear the whale songs... it's very tripp…
I HAVE MY FINGERS CROSSED FOR THIS LOFT I'm
sorry if I am slow on e-mails, I have 104 unreturned emails today but I
can pound them out early tomorrow morning. Today was super
hectic. I left the mountain in a compl…
DID YOU SEE "SPANGLISH"?
That
movie was SO good! But what was most impressive was this young
actress "Sarah Steele" who played Adam Sandler's daughter.
WOW! This girl was amazing! I mean everyone in the movie
w…
EVOCAM IS TOTALLY SO COOL
This
is Phil Cambry. He does construction stuff at my condo in Marina
Del Rey, CA. I know he was over working on the new project (I'm
putting a flatpanel LCD on the wall because the prev…
AU REVOIR BIG WHITE
Well this is the last weekend of the ski season. ! It has
been such a great season except for the sucky February but wow it ended
beautifully.
These last two days I would just sit at…
WOW I LOVE UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS
On Apr 4, 2005, at 10:44 AM,
Joe Sacher (joe@joesacher.com) wrote:
Gary, just want to say thank
you. I had not heard anything about you until 2-3 weeks
…
MY STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY AND DESIGN COVER FEATURE IS NOW ONLINE!
XANGA WEBSITE DONE RIGHT
Gary,
I just wanted to drop you an email to say THANK YOU! I took your
advice and purchased a xanga site.
The day it was up and running,
I got a response from it. Over the past coup…
REVEREND GARY MOON FONGDidn't
know my middle name was "moon" did you? I still have to ask my
dad why they named me that but as I became an ordained minister in the
Universal Life Church it occurred to me that I am no…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTEN ALEXANDER!
Kristen,
I hope you had a great birthday! You are truly an awesome friend
and I hope that your man Jason spoils the hell out of you. Sounds
like you two have a great thing going - …
JOACHIM IS GOING TO LOOK AT THIS WEBSITE SO
I'm
going to put this newspaper clipping in here to shock him.
Joachim is my tennis workout partner (Kerry is my other one) here in
Kelowna. He's number one in Canada i…
WHAT THIS BOAT DOES
This is a boat that chews up the milfoil that grows in the lake. What is milfoil? Milfoil is like kudzu.
If you've ever been to the deep south you've probably been amazed at
how kudzu grows al…
STILL NO CALL FROM BC DOCK AND DECK
I called today and the secretary said, "we got your emailed photo and we
don't even make that dock". I don't get it - the guy just doesn't
want to call customers... This dock …
SPRING SKIING IS THE BEST OF ALL
Today
was like the best day of skiing I can remember in a long time - here's
why: 1) there was about 6" of fresh snow last night 2) it was clear and
sunny and 3) my legs were totall…
HI FROM BIG WHITE SKI RESORT
I
had heard all of the ski reports about the massive dump of snow and the
constant snowfall so I had to drop everything and come up here and see
what the fuss is about. There is so muc…
PHASE ONE OF DECORATING - THE FLOORPLAN
I have the coolest program from WAY long ago - it's called MACDRAW and
it came out in like well a long time ago. Why is it cool?
Because you can scan in floorplans and th…
WOW THIS IS A LOT OF WORK
Hi from the Okanagan Lake. This is the first time I've been able
to get into my new lake house because we've been so busy with other
things and I met with Nicole's dad today because he d…
COOL EMAILS RECEIVED TODAY!
I had the stupidest travel day
today. We were on the tarmac taxiing, and the pilot goes, "Folks,
Hi from the flight deck, we just found out that our passenger count is
off by one person…
THIS KID IS FIFTEEN - WHAT PIPES
When
Nicole was driving me from Kelowna to Vancouver, she had this AMAZING
song on and I asked who that was, and she said, "can you believe this
girl is fifteen?" Nicole heard of R…
WAREHOUSE POSITION FILLED
Thanks for everyone who inquired, but I hired my friend David Hassemer's daughter Kate and her friend B.J.
If I have any more openings, I will post it here on my blog site.
DIGITAL INFRARED PHOTO FROM THE GRAND CANYON
I'm
getting kind of caught up on downloading images from our trip - and
there were a lot of them. I thought I'd share them with
you. These were done from an EcoStar He…
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