I'm A Grandfather. Sort Of

My Step daughter Christina and her husband John Paul had a baby boy today at 1:55 this afternoon. Both mother and baby are just fine.

I got the phone call that labor pains had started at 4:30 on Christmas day and an hour later I was on the road to Ft Campbell , KY with my right arm in a sling and a bag of m&m s that I could not reach. Five and a half hours later I got there just in time for her water to break and head off to the hospital. Getting to the hospital at midnight I waited and sat on the floor in her room untill it came time to push. Then Chris (Christinas brother) and I went down the hall and waited. Janet and John Paul took over and acted like they did more work than Christina.

The two photos are from when we first got to the hospital and when I left this afternoon. Check out the big ol Santa at the check in desk.

Gone to the Hills

I am feeling better today and tomorrow on Christmas Eve I will be heading to the mountains where I can get some rest and really get better. That is until my Step Daughter goes into labor and then it will be off to Ft Campbell, KY to see my new grandchild.

I will post baby photos when I have them.

Getting Better

Feeling better today. Still can't use right arm. Typing with left hand is no fun, so why do it ?

Home from Hospital

I am home. I hurt. I will take the pain medication. My Son Garen stayed up with me all last night and is crashed on the sofa. I had to sneak into my office here at home to post this.

Thanks to the folks who sent goodies, My former sister in law Kathy who works at the hospital, Milissa and Cory, Keith and Gary from Georgian Gallery and Michelle Deraney from SCB-Television channel 15.

Eric from Higher Vision Broadcasting is coming over today to help with last min Christmas orders. Erin is running errands and Melanie is still with her ailing grandparents. She really needs more help than I do.

I should have some very big extended family news in the next week. Christina , who I helped raise since she was 14 and gave away at her wedding a few years ago, will along with her husband John Paul be having a baby. Baby is due Christmas day. John Paul is in the US Army Special Forces and will be leaving for his second tour in Afghanistan in middle January. Maybe he will find Bin-Laden this time as that is his mission.

Sorry if wording is wrong , I think the pain killers are starting to kick in. Just noticed this took an hour to write. I will not continue to type with my left hand.

Surgery Tomorrow

Tomorrow on the 19th I will have surgery to repair my shoulder. The Doc says I should be up and about in about a week unless they have to do more than they expected. I think the kids are looking forward to taking care of me while I get better.

I wonder if I should act like a royal pain and get them to do EVERYTHING that I have been doing for them for the last 15 years. I know I wont get any rest as this place has been a zoo trying to get all of the Christmas orders out the door. We have been short handed in the office as Melanie is taking care of her 94 year old Grandfather . Her 92 year old Grandmother is in the last days of her life and Mel is doing all she can to keep her comfortable also.

Erin will be holding down the fort and sneaking of with the kids to Chick-Fil-A while I am whacked out on pain killers. I don't really like drugs but may have to do the pain killers for a day or two. I really don't know what to expect. I may not need them at all, or I might need a refill. I have never had any type of medical procedure before.

Last but not least in any way. My adopted Grandmother Jean Daniel passed away from cancer yesterday. Crazy Jean as we called her with the most love, was the Grandmother of two of my closest friends since we were only 14 years old. She loved the Atlanta Braves, her kids , grandchildren , great grandchildren , one great great grandchild and me. Oh, and shoplifting M & Ms
There are almost no photos of Jean from the last ten years because she was afraid that someone would put her face on some naked woman's body and then put it on the internet. Of course we were the ones that told her we would do it, so it is kind of our fault.

Goodbye Jean, and thanks for always remembering that I like the regular plain ones and not the ones with the peanuts.

New Web Site Is Up

For those of you who do not come to "What's ScottDoing" by way of my web site check it out at www.scottevans.com
It was redesigned by Chris Hays in Atlanta, Ga www.christopherhays.com As of today it still needs tweeking. Some of the photos are not linked right but it will all be fixed by the weekend.

Somebody Help Me !!!!

Somebody help me, I am teaching this kid to drive.

WPPI Print Competition.

I just received an e mail from Wedding and Portrait Photographers International . It was about the photographs that I entered in their 8x10 print competition. See them at www.wppionline.com I entered 14 photographs just to see how they might do. Keep in mind that I have NEVER entered photo competions in my 26 years as a photographer. I did shoot some weddings for another photographer about 19 years ago and he entered them in the Professional Photographers of America competitions and won awards for his studio, but I never got the credit. So I was a little turned off by the whole "Competition" process. But anyway, Scott Holloway , another photographer in Atlanta that I know well is a member of WPPI also and goes to their Convention in Las Vegas every year. Thousands of photographers from all over the world attend. This coming April it will take up all of Bally's and Paris casinos and Convention Centers. BIG convention.
The reason I am telling you all of this is so you will know just how big this e mail was that I got from WPPI. So here it is.

I won 1st place and 2nd place plus got 5 Accolades of Excellence awards.

I called WPPI in Santa Monica, Calafornia just to make sure I was reading this e mail right . The person in charge of the competition said the judges were stumped as to just how I made the 1st place photo. You can find out how when my first instructional DVD "The WOW Factor" comes out in January. Plus we will cover it in my Seminar Tour.

I have posted the 1st and 2nd place photos. 1st palce is "After the Storm" 2nd place is "Little Storms Brewing"

First Post from Times Sq

So, I am starting this BLOGG thing because everyone keeps asking me where I am and what I am doing.
This is my first post so cut me some slack if it is a little lame.
Right now I am in New York City to meet with the VP for the company that supplies my custom wedding albums. For those of you who don't know, I am a Wedding Photographer / Photograph Restorer. It sounds like a boring tedious occupation but it is not. I get to travel all over the United States and sometimes outside of the US . My web site lists that I will photograph any where in the world except for France. I think I will add Afghanistan and Iraq to the list.
Anyway, I am here in New York to drum up sponsors for my up coming seminar tour called "The WOW Factor" These seminars will be for beginning and intermediate wedding and portrait photographers. I will be selling my Wow Factor DVD as well as a few others I have put together to help new photographers.
I may look a little tired and I am. Today is Wednesday Oct 19th 2005. In the last 5 days I have photographed 2 huge weddings on Saturday and Sunday. Flew to Miami on Monday for the Rolling Stones show. Home yesterday afternoon just in time to make it to my son Garen's last baseball game of the fall season. He hit a long beautiful home run in the 2nd inning 20 feet over the center field fence. 330 feet to the fence. It was a BOMB !!! Home from the game at 11pm and then up at 5 am this morning to get the kids to school and then to the airport and fly to New York. The photo above was taken just a little while ago as it was getting dark in Times Sq. Tonight is dinner and a show at this jazz club called Bird Land with Paul from Kambara the album company.