THE INSANE POWER OF INTERNET MARKETING
At
Duluth, I was talking about the awesome marketing power of internet
marketing. We went over how to find a core audience and how to
connect with them and build loyalty thro…
THIS WAS MY WHOLE DAY AND STILL EMPTY HANDED
I
can't find my Brookstone Power Pod charger. This thing is so cool
you can plug it into your USB port, the wall, your car. The other
side has little nubs that chang…
JOE BUISSINK'S INSTRUCTIONAL DVD VIDEO
It's awesome. Get an in-depth look at the amazing photographer
and wonderful man as he takes you behind the scenes at his studio...
showing you a re-creation of a client i…
WHAT MAKES THE LIGHTSPHERE SO EFFICIENT?
I
think a lot of people think my Lightsphere II is white. I guess
it looks white from far away, but they they don't understand how it can
be so powerful losing so very litt…
I JUST PUT THIS HERE SO I WOULD KNOW WHERE TO FIND IT
It's time to start buying furniture for Discovery Bay so I have to put this floor plan to scale.
Man it feels like I just got done doing this.
WELL AT LEAST HE GOT THE HAT RIGHT
THE MARINA CONDO IS TAKING ON A NEW ROLE
Since
I'm not really meeting wedding clients at the office and since
everybody who works for me works pretty much remotely, the condo
doesn't get a whole heck of a lot of us…
WEIRD CLOUD FORMATIONS
Today
when flying over Minnesota, I had my little pocket Canon Elph. I
just love these little things because I always have it in my
pocket in case some weird shit pops up, like this one. A…
HI FROM MINNEAPOLIS
Do I look tired? Anyway I was reading in Business Week
how BLOGS are rapidly changing business. I don't even know why
this is the case but the more I post on my blog, the more orders come
into…
THANK YOU DULUTH, MINNESOTA!
I think I gave you enough homework for the next DECADE! I've
never seen a group grasp the histogram concept so fast, you even got my
trickiest, "person in front of two different siz…
HI FROM MINNEAPOLIS
Wow this traveling is
BRUTAL. Like I just flew last night and now I'm here. I am
so sleepy and I left my overnight bag at the other house so it has to
be fedx'd to the Marina. Anyway, good ne…
TRAVELING TO DULUTH, MN TODAY
So I won't be responding to your emails. For stuff, please email my Los Angeles assistant, katekelly@garyfong.com.
If anyone reading this is at the MNPPA convention, could you please
t…
I PUT AN OFFER ON THIS ONE TODAY
This
is Discovery Bay. Today as I was rushing to get to the airport,
my real estate agent and friend Peter called and said that the sellers
on the lake house on Hare Road didn't co…
I HAVE SEEN SOME AMAZING GOLF COURSE RESORTS BUT
WOW! This is Quail Ridge. I came up to do a shoot of my friend
Debra Pender's newest spa, "Beyond Wrapture" at the Borgata. This
is the Borgata:
This a…
I LIKE DONALD TRUMP'S IDEA BETTER
After
all of the proposals for the twin towers, I like Trump's idea the
best. Redo the towers in the old design, only stronger and one
story taller. I like that idea better becau…
TODAY I AM BEING A WHINY, SNIVELY LITTLE SNOT
I've
been in the worst mood. The house deal fell through because they
didn't accept my final offer (I sometimes get in the habit of chasing a
price, and I didn't want …
WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL ARE YOU?
I
was giving a workshop up and my
assistant was Kincaid and Kristen Alexander was in the audience.
They were so disruptive because they were literally purple
laughing. So I walked up…
I LOVE RENOVATING
I think that's the part that is the most fun. It's kind of like
why I like photography. Photography is really cool. Do you
like photography? I mean, what is more fun than
photography? Wel…
IF YOU'RE IN MY LIFE, YOU'RE IN MY BLOG
Nicole
is seriously an amazing personal assistant. I know that many of you have
met her. She always has a smile on her face and works
super hard. But did you ever notice h…
I REALLY LIKE THIS HOUSE
This house looks really good! So I may make an offer tonight on
it. It has a clear one acre lot right in front of it straight
down to the Okanagan, and it's about 2 blocks from the cas…
THIS BOOK IS AMAZING! WHERE DID I LEAVE IT?
Anything Dan Brown is just a total level above any other author.
I mean it is such a great book - he has amazing concepts that he backs
with research and detail and ma…
WHO AND WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO DO THIS?
On
Inside Edition they are doing an piece on what this website is doing to
teens. There used to be a TV show where people would go on the
stage and there was a 'hot' or 'n…
HERE'S a COOL IMAGE
THIS IS KIND OF CREEPY, WHAT DO YOU THINK? (JULY 4)
My friend works in a high end luxury hotel in Hawaii. His hotel got a very strange request ... here's what his email said:
Anyways, here is some crazy info
abou…
UNINTENDED VANDELISM
Today
I got my car back from the detailer, and sure enough the lipstick
message on
the rear plastic window "Don't park in other people's spaces" (while we
were parked in someone else's space) …
ANOTHER COOL USE FOR A POCKET DIGITAL CAMERA
I like keeping super organized
receipts of everything I purchase, and because I'm never in one place
long I like having images of all my important papers in a secured
…
TODAY'S PHOTOS OF MY DAD AND JOE BUISSINK
This
being sunday, it was kind of a futz around day. We had to go to
my warehouse to find some albums for my dad, who was busy shipping
Lightspheres so we visited him in…
ALAN MORRIS WROTE THIS ABOUT MY MINI DIGICAM PHOTOS:
"Using a camera to
illustrate your musings adds a lot of interest. Peoples lives
come alive with a combination of words and pictures. Either words
or pictures …
THIS THING IS SO BRILLIANT I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE IT EXISTS
If you have a TV with separate
sound system and DVD, etc. You have to do this crazy thing of
turning your TV source to the right input channel, then change y…
TRAFFIC TO THIS SITE
Has been even bigger i started
posting snapshots from the tiny Canon Elph. Maybe it's the
reality show aspect of it and seeing images
I take every day with the little point and shoot. Anyway …
REMODELING COMPLETED!
Just
as we are about to leave Canada, the house finished - about two weeks
behind schedule but that's ok because I knew it would take
longer. Anyway click here to see the photos. We still ne…
images from today on the little Canon Elph
THE ORIGINAL LIGHTSPHERE
I get asked a lot why the new LS2
is called the Lightsphere 2 - what was the first Lightsphere?
This is it! Isn't it ugly? I made it with the late great
Bill Norman, and we created…
THE THEATER IS COMPLETED!
The private theater in my Lake House on the Okanagan is now finally
completed. See my earlier post on what the room looked like
before. We watched "Drumline" last night and the 6.1 so…
GIRLS ARE SO GIRLY
It's hair coloring day at the Lake Castle.
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY
I no longer have a mom, but I had
a great day today in Canada well at least just 1/2 a day. For
some reason we woke up at 2pm! So we had breakfast at 330pm and on
the way back home to the Castl…
STATE OF THE THEATER REPORT
Here it was before the workers came in and tore it up
Tomorrow the chairs arrive! So I thought i'd take this one photo
of the pre-finished theater before it gets fluffed. The vendi…
WHY IS IT NOBODY KNOWS
ABOUT KELOWNA? (click here to see images)
Today we went for a bike ride around Kelowna, BC. It's the
Centennial celebration today, so it was really fun and awesome in the
streets... weathe…
WOW WHAT AN AWESOME UNSOLICTED
TESTIMONIAL FOR MY DVD BOX SET
(PETER GREGG)
Just finished DVD numbers 1-3 of his new 5 disk set seminar package.
1. I am a photographer of over 30 years.
2. Been digital since the C…
JUST DO IT
Thanks Claude Jodoin for this
cool photo of me speaking at WPPI at Bally's Las Vegas. I had no
idea I wore a baseball cap to that program, or that I wore it
backwards. D'oh!
TODAY WAS A REAL DOG'S BREAKFAST
I finally found out what Jack
Peach meant about the term "A real dog's breakfast"... it's "a little
bit of this and a little bit of that" (his wife, Nicole's mom told
us) WHEW. So t…
OH ? (post from dpreview)
IMAGES FROM THE CANON ELPH SD500
When
we were in San Diego just shooting fun images, I was kind of looking
for a fun super little point and shoot camera and Vincent LaForet and
Denis Reggie both goo-ed over the Can…
OUR FIRST VISIT TO TWIN HAVEN
We visited Twin Haven today, the new lakefront property I just
purchased two days ago that exists as Twin Haven and Serenity Spa
retreat. As always, photos don't do a property just…
COME SEE MY SEMINAR IN DULUTH, MINNESOTA!
I'll be doing my last seminar of the year in Duluth, MN on
Wednesday May 25th at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center.
It's an all-day seminar. If you are going to the…
NO EMAIL AVAILABILITY TODAY
Today is a flying day.
Please ONLY email me using the link at left - I do not respond to
emails at any other mailbox including garyfong1@aol.com. AOL is
like - so stupid.
AU REVOIR GRAND WAILEA, MAUI
It just is so beautiful how can you describe it with words or
pictures? The most amazing thing about it here is the feel of the
tropical breeze, and the smell of plumeria. The Gran…
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