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  • HAY IS FOR HORSESThis is Monet. She just spent her first night in our ranch and so Lindsay put out some hay and she started rolling around in it. These are like big puppies - HUGE puppies.These aren't even my horses an…

  • COMING SOON - A VIDEO ok video is here! click on play button below!

  • OH MY GOSH DJ IT'S NOT WORTH IT!!! (apple iphone - campout) My groomsman David Jay camped out at the Cingular store since 9am this morning for a 6pm release of the new iPhone from Apple. IT'S HILARIOUS seeing his BLOG …

  • RODAIN E'ST ARRIVE !Rodain and his pretty friend Abigail arrived today. I drove up and beautiful, black Rodain was strutting around his new pasture like a show horse! Rodain is how we met Lindsay and Jesse. It is goi…

  • BIZTOOLBELT LOVES US! I love unsolicited editorials! We don't advertise on there, nor did either party approach each other. So that's their bona-fide opinion!Click HERE to read what they said about us!

  • UPDATED RANCH PICTURES - click here I just put the latest update in the continuing saga of the ranch reconstruction. In my little web gallery I put photos from around the house and grounds at different stages, sorted by…

  • DEER EVERYWHEREThis deer was just hanging out in our rodeo arena. The deer are so mellow they just peacefully go all around our pastures . Yesterday we saw a six point buck eating grass near the side of our road. I do…

  • THIS AD IS NOT CORRECT! I WILL NOT BE APPEARING IN FLORIDA IN JULY!Please note: the following ad forwarded to me by MJ Wilson is NOT correct. I will NOT be speaking in Florida in July. They mistook me with Hanson Fong…

  • THE WHALETAIL STUDIO IS NOW SHIPPING!!!!OK this is LONG overdue - but we finally fulfilled the first orders to our retailers and the original WPPI booth orders... and now - we have ONLY 413 Whaletail Studios in stock.Thi…

  • PHOTOS FROM TODAY AND UPDATES Today I'm finally getting over that little bug that makes me sleepy all the time. No symptoms, just napping all the time. My glands were a little swollen but I'm been chugging green tea fr…

  • SANDRA ASKED ABOUT MY INSULIN/HGH-AWARE DIETSandra,HGH is produced in larger quantities when insulin is lacking. Insulin levels increase responding to glucose levels. Therefore, you need glucose absorption to be suppress…

  • IT'S 2:02AM AND I CAN'T SLEEP

  • DEER Today I was driving into town and had to stop the car and let the deer cross. We have deer all over the place here, and cows. The pastures are just about ready for horses, and our new friends Lindsay and Jesse wil…

  • WWGD@GARYFONG.COM QUESTION:GARY, HOW DO YOU GET A NEW CAR SMELL?I really really hate those mirror-hanger air fresheners. One time we came back to Kelowna and Lauren hung them in each car and I had to leave them all ope…

  • DID YOU KNOW WHEN YOU SEND AN ANONYMOUS EMAIL,THE RECIPIENT CAN KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR? No matter how you disguise an e-mail, pickup some nickname at yahoo.com... if the message originates from your computer - someone can fi…

  • ROSES I love flowers. I worked with an awesome florist in L.A., Bobbe Vagel and I think that's when I started to really notice how awesome flowers are. Then when I was living in Marina Del Rey - there is a store called…

  • PHOTOS FROM YESTERDAYTop left: breakfast consists of 233 grams of nonfat vanilla yogurt, 2 tsp of milled flax, 1tsp each of pumpkin, sunflower and sesame seeds, and an apple if one is laying around. Top Center: It's 84 d…

  • 169.4 - 5.4 pounds from my goal!! This is the first time I've seen the first two digits, "1" and "6" together in probably 20 years. When I went to the doctor's office in February complaining of pre-diabetic conditions..…

  • DEYL, AS BOB DAVIS WOULD SAY,THE ONLY LIMITATION IS YOUR IMAGINATIONIt's not how you do something, it's the fact that you did it.

  • YAY! YOU IN MY MAGAZINE AD!!! I remember the first time I saw myself in a photography magazine. It was the most awesome feeling. So that was the idea behind making a full page ad of happy customers. To be totally tru…

  • INTRODUCING THE GARY FONG PUFFER DIFFUSER!!!! P.U.F.F.E.R. = Pop Up Flash di FF us ER. THIS is a badly needed accessory for cameras like the EOS Rebel, Nikon D40's - for all of those people who do not have a $4-$500 fl…

  • THIS GUY LITERALLY SAID, "I DON'T GIVE A SHIT" I have been having all kinds of fun carrying my little Fuji F40 everywhere I go, and then dumping them into iPhoto everyday. Well yesterday at the Seattle Airport I had to …

  • YOUR SALAD AS A GLIMPSE INTO YOUR INNER SELF A couple of days ago, I had lunch at Soupplantation in Marina Del Rey. While I was going through the salad bar, it was so interesting looking at the salads of others. One pe…

  • POOL BAR STOOLS Our pool foreman, Dave is pictured here putting together the submerged concrete barstools for the swim-up bar. I have learned a lot about concrete and forming watching these guys from Valley Pools do suc…

  • THUMBNAILS FROM YESTERDAYHere's some random images from yesterday.

  • SEATTLE OVERNIGHT I am so looking forward to being back with my sweetie! I've been in Los Angeles - we flew to Seattle together then Bun went to Kelowna and I spent the last few days in L.A. - now I am back in Seattl…

  • ABSOLUTELY UNSAFEMy friend Ken Scott restored his dad's 1954 Jag to a beautiful condition. Today was a beautiful day in Los Angeles, so he brought it over, top down, and we took it for a drive along Vista Del Mar to din…

  • SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAToday was a really beautiful day in Southern California. I'm staying onboard the HMS Kelowna, and the upper aft deck patio is probably one of my favorite places in the world. There's a comfy couch, a…

  • ME, IN A SUIT AND TIE I wore a suit and tie today, and my friends have been teasing me asking me to email them a photo. Well, we aim to please at garyfong.com, so here's a photo! On another subject, I am completely beh…

  • STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY AND DESIGN FULL PAGE AD 2Hey I'm finishing up my collage for another silly full page ad in SPD. I think the other one is up because well we're getting quite a response like I thought.Whenever you ge…

  • WWGD - TOPIC - RESIDUAL INCOMEDEAR WHAT WOULD GARY DO: Hi Gary!!! I am a Huge stalker of your blog. I was soooo excited when I read that you were doing wwgd! We need a plan. On a fixed income. My husband has that stupid …

  • WWGD - TOPIC; WEIGHT LOSSemail your questions about anything to; "wwgd@garyfong.com" (what would gary do)Hi Gary! My husband is about 60 pounds overweight. He actually doesn't eat a whole lot of food, works in a hot pla…

  • MY NEW ADVICE COLUMN! wwgd@garyfong.com (What would G do)HMS KELOWNA - MARINA DEL REY, CA - My friends often ask me for advice, and it probably could help others too. So like, financial/investing/legal, etc. should of…

  • LOVE MY FONG NATIONAL AD CAMPAIGN DEADLINE SUNDAY NIGHT MIDNIGHT!By now it appears that last month's collage of happy Fong product users has hit the magazines - which is awesome and it's fun! I want YOU to be in it! Bu…

  • HI FROM SEATTLEWe just met with Dane Sanders here in Seattle. Dane's an amazingly enterprising inspiration to me. I don't know how he comes up with the innovative ideas he does, but he is about to unleash his exciting…

  • PICTURES FROM TODAY

  • THE RANCH GETS ITS FIRST TV INTERVIEWThis is an installment on the Shaw Cable network here in Canada for one of the lifestyle shows. Wesla Wong did the interview for the show, and Rob Farr, our A/V consultant for Starwa…

  • YES I DID SEE IT!!!! I've been getting emails and comments seeing if I saw the comment made about the Lightsphere on Luminous-Landscape.com - and yes I did!We've had a large bump in orders today and Michael Reichmann mus…

  • TV CREW ARRIVES AT 10 AM

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  • CANON 14MM F2.8L ON A 5D, ISO 1600

  • I FOUND A REALLY COOL ROUND MIRROR

  • BRILLIANT IDEA!!!!! Since I have mail coming to different mailboxes in Seattle, L.A. and British Columbia, it is really nuts trying to keep current. Here comes "earthclassmail.com"Get this - you forward all of your mai…

  • BABY BEN We are right above what's called, "Old Kelowna Ranch" and so we drive by it on the way to town. We've noticed a new addition - about five days old now. I've named him, "Ben"It is such a cute little bugger. Hi…

  • WHAT'S ON MY DESK, LEFT TO RIGHTStarting from floor: chriscut shredder; wastebasket; Canon ip3000 printer; Fujitsu Scansnap Scanner; Macbook Pro 17" Dual 2.0 w/200mb drive connected via Airport Extreme to a hidden 1 tera…

  • VERY INTERESTING "HOW NOT-TO" BOOK FROM A REAL LOSER He admits it too. Normally you'd read books from people who accomplish things, this book is from somebody who has failed repeatedly personally and in business, and w…

  • I AM GOING TO HAVE A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT. COME BACK SOON!!!

  • CONGRATULATIONS ADAM SCORGIE!WINNER OF "BEST DOCUMENTARY" WINNIPEG FILM FESTIVAL!!NEXT STOP; TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL, THEN THE WORLD!I am always inspired by people with vision and passion. I think you all know by now our…

  • LIGHTSPHERE SIZE FOUR SOLD OUTIf you've tried to purchase a Lightsphere in size 4, you will notice it is no longer on the cart. We are completely out and we're trying really hard to get them back on the e-store. Howev…

  • JOHN LEGEND's "ORDINARY PEOPLE"There's a man named Michael Lolito, who ate a Cessna 150 airplane, and it took him two years to do it. He has this thing where if he "sees" something, he has to eat it. He first ate his …

  • LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTUREThere is so much planning that goes into landscape architecture. You need to know design, horticulture and botany. For a guy like me that cannot keep a simple bonzai tree alive, it's mind-boggling…

  • McCARTNEY'S BACK TO THE EGG IS ON ITUNES!!! YAY!!! Oh man I couldn't find that album ANYWHERE and I just downloaded it today. That is such an incredible album. Songs to look for: "Getting Closer", "Arrow Through Me" a…

  • B&H SELLOUT ANNOUNCEMENT B&H is sold out of Whaletails - they are an awesome retail partner. We are getting a shipment out to them ASAP. We have them in stock in our e-store if you want it fast.Thank you everyb…

  • THE PETER LIK'S ARRIVED!!!!! If any of you were at WPPI or in Vegas lately and stopped by the Peter Lik gallery at the Forum Shops at Caesar's, you'll remember this amazing photographer's images.For two years in a row we…

  • REALLY REALLY FUNNY! This movie was really good! Although I missed the first 15 minutes because Rabbit went inside the theater and I stopped at the snack bar. Well there were two theaters playing it, and I didn't know …

  • LIFE IS SO SIMPLE I FIGURED IT OUT A WHILE AGOI think there are two bad habits that people do which limits their lives tremendously. They are:1) making excuses - 2) blaming anyone/anything for your situation.If you coul…

  • IT IS 92 DEGREES F OR 33C IN KELOWNA TODAYSo our friends Jim & Trish took us boating in the 88 mile long Lake Okanagan in his new speedboat. For any of you who haven't been to Kelowna, it's like Lake Tahoe, Napa Val…

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  • THE ABSOLUTE ULTIMATE TENNIS WEAPON Today I had an awesome day of tennis, and it's because I found this racquet on the left - couldn't find it anywhere and it had been sitting in the back trunk of my Toyota FJ. It absol…

  • THE KITCHEN IS SO NICELY LAID OUT

  • FUNNY STORY ABOUT WHEN I WAS A MOVIE THEATER USHER We were just talking about a funny story about when I used to work for the UA theater in Marina Del Rey. My buddy, Doug Butler worked there with me, and one day he was …