photos by iffles!

Every year, work does this month where they try to raise money for Harvest for Hunger (we also have a month later in the year where we raise money for United Way, if you were, for some reason, incredibly interested in our charitable donations as a corporation). There are a few things that always seem to happen: chili cook-off, bake sale, rummage sale, etc. And then there is the silent auction. People donate things (usually themed gift baskets), that are auctioned off all week long. A couple years ago, I donated one of my photos printed and mounted and ready for hanging. This year I decided to donate a one hour photo session. I bought three photo-collage frames - one that held four photos, and two that held two each. 7 of the slots were filled up with photos from some of my favorite sessions from last year and the last slot was a card that "advertised" for "photos by iffles". Which meant I needed a freakin' website! I had started one around Christmas time, I believe, but didn't do much more than create a home page and so in the course of one night I whipped this up! So. If you know of anyone on Northeast Ohio looking for a photographer, feel free to point them my way. Of course, if I get a lot of business, I'm going to have to start getting all professional and get a business license. But I'm hoping to keep it rather casual for now.


Bitty Maia Paw.

Remember in February when I wrote about celebrating the birthday of a friend? Well, here are the photos to prove it happened (Bryan, I promise not to show [too many] embarrassing ones):


We started off at the wine bar, where John and Andrew drank beer.


This wine bar is great, because you don't really order what you want, you just say "I want a white. I like semi-dry", and he'll bring you a bottle of something that he's into at the moment.


I just liked this light


Kitty! And darnit if I always forget this one's name.


Oh! The other one is named Dylon. Dillon. Dyllon? Crap, I should have just stuck with not remembering. I sometimes get annoyed that people can't remember Myles is spelled with a y. Actually, I mostly don't like it when I caption a photo with "Myles" and then people comment on it saying how cute Miles is. I'm sure he is, but I have no idea what he looks like because THAT IS MYLES. Anyway. THIS cat is Java. Right? Oh, jeez, I don't know why I'm so picky about names (mine and Myles') when I can't even remember anyone else's (or any cat for that matter, apparently)


Cats playing music for the cat


I wore new boots


Once back at Bryan and Sharon's place (which is where the cats were), Sharon kept bustling around and putting out more and more food, like these, which were quite yummy.


John, Andrew and Erin (someone else Andrew, Bryan and I work with) laughing at something.


Somehow, we convinced Bryan to do Karaoke at the bar across the street from his house. Not that he had much of a choice, since we put his name in for him.


I think this is the point where he realized I was taking photos of him (Andrew took video!)