HILARIOUS! AND EASY TO DO!Amy Nave sent me an email with a link that allows you to do the funniest thing - you can stick your headshot into a movie trailer! It's fast and it's easy! She got the link from Kincaid - fun…
WE SAW FLIGHT 93 TONIGHTIt was a really intense movie, totally gripping. I thought it would be sad, or terrifying, but it was really interesting watching just the shock as the terror unfolded. I would recommend seeing …
HOW DO YOU PUT SHOWS UP ON THE INTERNET YOU ASK?I am often asked, ok now that I have this cool image, or slide show, etc... how do I put the content on the internet? For example, if you have the upcoming SHOWITWEB 2.0 o…
JESSICA STRICKLAND AND NICOLE PEACH HOW DID I GET SOLUCKY AND MEET BOTH OF YOU?Mel checks both of your blogs and she goes, hunny bun bun, go look at Jess's blog! Look at Nicole's blog! So I did and you two are so funny…
CONFUSION ABOUT WHAT IS A KNOCK-OFF, ETCThere is a lot of confusion on the texas forum about what exactly constitutes a knockoff, and if we do have a tort. Since I'm not a lawyer, this morning I contacted mine to review…
HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS AT PROSPERA PLACETHEY ARE NO LONGER FUNNY NOR ARE THEY GOOD **CLICK HERE FOR IMAGESFor some reason I have decided that when I am photographed I want to be in this "robot" pose. You will see asians a…
VERY VERY VERY VERY IMPORTANT POSTABOUT THE POWER CONSOLE TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENTRecently, I got a lot of emails from the "texasphotoforum.com" forums (cool regional forum for texas area photographers) about a photographe…
FROM THE UPCOMING, "ONE STUP AHEAD" SINGLEThis guy on the right is, well what is he. He's Melissa's sister's (Jen's) husband. Anyway, he's Josh and he's owner of www.headtotoeconstruction.comHe's up here helping me wit…
FROM THE UPCOMING, "ONE GOLF SWING AHEAD" VIDEOGolfing is fun! This was my first golf lesson. She gave a great tip: just focus on your swing, and the ball gets in the way. Let's watch:
FROM THE UPCOMING "ONE CAKE AHEAD" VIDEOI dig doing videos now with the super ease and fun of Apple's iMovie. Today I'm putting together a DVD of rabbit's bday and it's super fast and totally fun. I burn a fun DVD with…
THE BIRTHDAY CAKE TASTED REALLY GOOD!We had the cake, and it was actually good! It looked like, SO SAD but it tasted good. So, yay!Today was a day of firsts, I baked my first cake and we went golfing, and it was my fir…
MY FIRST EVER CAKE!!! I HAVE SO MUCH RESPECT FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN BAKE NOW!I tried as hard as I could to do the best cake I could, and this is it.This is the top of my game, my best effort. very humbling!I woke up at 630…
TODAY IS APRIL 26TH OF COURSE DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?It's Melissa's birthday!!!!! She's well I can't say her age anymore! But for a clue go here! LOL. She's still asleep and we have a super fun day planned. It'…
NOW I FIND THIS BOOK... LOL CLICK HERE FOR THE BOOKForeclosures are so complex that I just gotta laugh when I see people say, "get rich in foreclosures". Melissa and I were talking tonight about this deal and the obsta…
NICOLE'S BLOG IS ALWAYS FUN TO READNicole is probably the sweetest person you'll ever meet. I say that because at first her airy, super high-pitched voice sounds kind of fake sweet, like when I first met her I thought s…
STUCK IN SEATTLELast night we had a 10pm flight to Kelowna, but it got cancelled because the plane that was going to take us there had so much turbulence in the previous flight that two flight attendants got injured and …
IT IS HARD TO BEAT SEATTLE ON A SUNNY DAY!This video was filmed just a few minutes ago from our apartment. It is so beautiful here and we are really starting to get to know the neighborhood. Anyway, just when we start …
PLANE EXPERTS WHO PREVIOUSLY COMMENTED PLEASE CHIME IN?I want to thank everyone here who gave me the advice about the "Lake" amphibs. Seems these are the only ones FAA approved and because they don't require pontoons, I…
THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME TO FIND A REPLACEMENT HAT I REALLY appreciate y'all looking around. If you could find this exact hat (this super cute girl next to me is Melissa's niece Josie), YOU WOULD BE MY HERO and I would …
MY NIKE HAT WITH THE CHROME SWOOSH IS GONEAnd I am so sad. There is no way to replace it because Nike doesn't make it anymore. I bought it in Nice, France and liked it so much and when it started getting kind of dirty …
THE DOG WHISPERER My friend Rodrigo told me about how great this guy's show was, and how they used what he teaches on their pugs, and what a difference it has made. Well we started watching the show and he is so smart. …
WELL SO THIS MAKES IT OFFICIAL!I am now officially a Washington resident. It felt so weird when the Washington driver's license office punched a hole in my California DL. A little sad even.Nothing really is going to ch…
BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPHY HELPS CHILDREN FIND HOMESKids in foster homes are first presented to perspective adoptive homes with photos taken by government workers, and they look like mugshots. Think of how lousy that would w…
600 GIGS OF PORTABLE STORAGEIf you have ever lost data, you change as a person. You become kind of freaky paranoid. I've never lost anything important, but I'd hate to experience it. So I have a lot of backups.The new…
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PRODUCTS THAT I SPOTLIGHTED ON MY TOUR?Answer is, they're coming. We are working with a programmer to automate the distribution of the serial numbers, and for me to finish the quicktime tutorials. …
DUDE, THAT IS SO FREAKYI just changed my Xanga password. I did not write the last line below, I have no idea what it even means but if somebody accessed my account via password, can you explain what it means? I looked …
SORRY ABOUT THE SELL OUT WE ARE WORKING ON ITI saw an email that showed somebody selling my cloud lightsphere on ebay for $88. Then I got a whole bunch of alerts from the warehouse that we are out of sizes P1 and P4.We …
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, I AM NOT GETTING SLAMMED!Whenever I look at dpreview or some of the other huge photography forums, I almost have to close one eye because I know that there are some people that are going to say unflat…
EPSON PRINTER CLASS ACTION SUIT - WHOAEpson has reached a settlement in response to a class action suit where plaintiffs claimed that Epson had utility software that told the user that the ink cartridges were empty when …
OH NO, PEP CAUGHT MY POST BEFORE I TOOK IT PRIVATE (I just made it public below)Since this blog is also a journal, I use the "private" function to keep personal entries viewable only to me. Funny thing is sometimes I po…
I HAD THE STRANGEST DREAM, I HAD ROTISSERIE CHICKEN LAST NIGHTI had the weirdest dream. I was watching CNN, and the Congressional Midterm elections had just
tallied, and the GOP held onto the majority in the house by
o…
HI FROM SEATTLE!We are here for five days, and in these five days we have to furnish our new pad. We're on the 21st floor of this cool building, and it faces Puget Sound. I'm pretty stoked to move in. I did some advan…
THE RIDICULOUS COMPARISON I'VE INHERITEDI used to laugh so hard when I would hear the infomercial of Tom Vu. He had the most amazingly thick Vietnamese accent and he would say, "I a winner! You a loser! Get outta my w…
I AM SORRY FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO WRITE BACK ON EMAILSWe have tried auto-responders, auto signatures, etc. and I'm really trying to write back on emails and it's not easy. Thanks for your patience, I'm trying to figure …
WE ARE DOWN TO OUR LAST 100 UNITS!I absolutely can't believe the response to the introduction of my 2-DVD set. Yesterday, we had 1,500 units available and within 24 hours we got an inventory alert that we are down to ou…
FLEXCAR.COM WHAT A GREAT IDEA!Whoa this is awesome. With Flexcar.com, you rent a car for $8/hr, including gas! Each car has GPS on it, so you can reserve the car online, and just walk to the nearest Flexcar parking spo…
IS KATIE HOLMES REALLY PREGNANT SITUATIONOK there's this thing going around all around the internet and in the magazines wondering if Katie Holmes is really pregnant. You know there are some reports that she is in the m…
REALLY EFFECTIVE RELAXATION TECHNIQUEIt's about 6am and I woke up this morning with some disconcerting chest pains. After talking to Joe B. a lot about his fragile heart condition, I can only imagine a fraction of what …
JOE BUISSINK STATUSAt WPPI we had lunch with Denis and he told us that Joe had to go in for another procedure as he was having chest pains again. I talked to Joe, and Joe said that thankfully the chest pains were a resu…
HAPPY EASTER FROM MARINA DEL REY!We are so lazy, just laying around in bed all day. I think we are still recovering from WPPI. We slept all day! But my easter bunny has been doing orders on Pictage and I did a mailing…
THE POWER OF THE LOW PRICING STRATEGYI am a very serious student of merchandising. Well that and history. Merchandising allows me to tweak things and see what effect they have on results. History is fun because studyi…
THE SPECIAL MAILING JUST WENT OUT!We only have 1,500 copies in the warehouse and that's it! And this mailing went out to 45,000 newsletter subscribers. That means we only have 3 for every 100 people! I'm sorry!So if yo…
LACIE'S "LITTLE BIG DISK" I'M WAITING ANXIOUSLY!This little drive is the ultimate. Firewire800 and Bus powered (means it doesn't need a power cord, just connect it to your computer! and it has 320MB of fast-transfer sto…
NOW AVAILABLE ON THE E-CART! THE ONE STEP AHEAD LIVE TOURDVD - TWO DVD SET CLICK HERE FOR SPECIAL PRICING!I've gone through the two-DVD set and love it. It is a message that so badly needs to get out there. Prices are …
CONGRATULATIONS SCOTT ROBERT LIM!Scott Robert is the photographer who was spotlighted in my recent post in a webcast. He attended the "One Step Ahead" seminar in L.A. and he just sent me an email: "Gary, I wanted to pra…
WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS, GOES ON THE BLOG *CLICK HERE TO SEE PHOTOSI have heard the phrase, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" SOOOOO many times this week I am OVER it. And really what happens in Vegas is gossip'd ab…
DENNIS MCANANY IS NOW WITH CLASSIC ALBUMS!Art Leather was once an amazing company. Innovative, in-touch, and the undisputed market leader. But most of all it had an incredible group of dedicated people that I really …
OUR CRAZY WPPI TRADE SHOW BOOTH (CLICK HERE FOR IMAGES) Last year was our first trade show booth and we had no idea what we were doing. It was complete chaos but we survived and learned a lot! It was just me, Mel Nico…
MOVIE FROM VEGAS
HI FROM WPPI! THANK YOU VEGAS YOU WERE A GREAT CROWD!I love speaking at the big conventions, especially WPPI, the largest Portrait/Wedding photography convention in the world. Why? Because it is like a huge reunion, b…
YAY GARYFONGESTORE.COM NOW HAS WEB HOSTING!!!I really want to help people to get onto the internet and be able to upload their own cool album designs and showit slide shows. But the bummer is - everybody gets stuck on t…
APRIL FOOL'S DAY JOKE GONE TOO FAR! CLICK HEREOH NO, WHAT HAVE I DONE?
ONLY TWO MORE DAYS UNTIL VEGAS!Melissa sent me this photo in an email. I miss her so much! We will have been apart for ten days, but Vegas is two days away!!I love this photo. It is a very rare one because she is alwa…
HEY MY CELLPHONE IS BROKEN AND I CAN'T GET EMAILS OUT FROM THE YACHT! SOS!
I'm heading to the condo so send me emails if I need to do something. I'll be there around 11am PST
RAINSTORMS IN LOS ANGELES WHICH REMINDS ME WE NEED AN
ASSISTANT IN SEATTLE WASHINGTON
This is where I sleep when I am
in L.A. It's the aft stateroom of the HMS Kelowna. When
Melissa is here we use the front sta…
PACKAGING IS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHINGThis is not even within reason. If you want to see the extremes in packaging, check out what American Express sends out their black charge cards in - it is so over the top, but the all-…
I AM IN L.A. AND I LIKE IT HERE A LOT (what?)
I am so weird. I was
dreading coming to L.A. until I got to the condo and started scanning
on the Fujitsu scanners- I was so happy! Then, I met my dad at
Pepy's and t…
FUJITSU SCANSNAP SCANS BOTH SIDES OF THE DOCUMENT AT ONCE!Hi from Los Angeles! I just got back to my condo in Marina Del Rey and here waiting for me were my new Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners! Why is this so exciting? Beca…
THE AMAZING POWER OF E-COMMERCE AND YAHOO E-STORESOn January 12th we switched to yahoo's e-commerce site closing down our frustrating experience with mycart.net. Yahoo has fantastic metrics showing me pretty much any da…
FINISHING UP THE SOFTWARE TUTORIALS - AND WHY IT'S SO MUCH WORKI have been creating software for almost 20 years now for photographers, and one thing I realized is that no matter how easy the software is to use, that is …
TOMORROW IS DESIGN DAY! AND FOR INSPIRATION....Here is an email from Ian McGaffic. His wife Donna Newman is an awesome photographer from Canada who was a very successful model then went to the other side of the lens an…
MY FRIENDS TEND TO BE NOT TOO SELF-CONSCIOUSPictured at right are my friends from Santa Barbara, Amy Nave and Mary Jane Aufderheide (I spelled it right Janey!). Anyway, hanging around them is like an episode of friends.…
I RE-DID THIS ENTIRE WEBSITE IN I-WEB AND IT WAS SO FAST!!!Wow this software is really easy! You can just drag images from ANYWHERE and drop it onto a canvas and it creates the web-optimized JPG as well as the link to d…
TOP SECRET [B]ecker WEBSITE FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS ONLY!Becker has created a new PHOTOGRAPHER'S ONLY blog which is pass-word protected to keep brides out. What a great idea!This way he can help you with your business and sha…
HI FROM SEATTLE!I am afraid that I kind of dread returning to Los Angeles. Oh dear. Today, through no fault of my own, my flight from Kelowna to Seattle was so late because ONE lady had her bag on the plane and then th…
DID ANYBODY GET MY MAILING? DID IT WORK OUT?I'm trying a new multi-media email with video. Jess Strickland said she got a blank page. Is that true with everybody? I would like feedback, thanks!
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THIS BEAUTIFUL THING?This is called a seawind amphibious. All I know is that it seats four, goes very fast and can land on sea or air. AND it looks so cool!All of the seaplanes I've…
PEACEFUL END TO A CRAZY DAY CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOSToday was the craziest day. I have developed so much patience in these last few years the people around me wonder why I don't just go ballistic. One thing I am so glad o…
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