Anyway, to cover travel expenses, running the site, equipment, etc I’m selling a Kiss Me Kate DVD package – both shows for $20. If you’re interested, call or email me for more info.

Because of the missed shows and the rescheduling of dress rehearsals I will only have two collections this year. However I did things differently and shot a lot more photos than ever before. As a result, there may be numerous duplicates of photos that are already on the site that were not posted. If there is something you are interested in ordering and want to see if a duplicate with possibly a different pose is available, please contact me and I will search the originals.

I never worked out the online ordering system, and that is still on my list of things along with the lost collection from The Sound of Music.  If you would like to participate in a test of a new deployment of Gallery2, please contact me.  I will be experimenting with some things in a few months including Gallery2 and some server updates including some possible hardware changes or updates.

I am working on a video and the details of how to release it for a general sale.  I have not finished converting all the tapes but once I do I will try to find some time to preview the finished products.  The finished sale product might be a cut and paste of the two days due to the general inability for camcorders to automatically adjust to very bright lighting.  It will be a few weeks before I have news on this.  Check back soon for updates.

Photos from this year’s show are going to be the two performances only. It would have been too much work and too difficult to turn everything around from a rehearsal on a performance day and I didn’t want to go into the show blind (even though I can do that and still turn out good results). I was working on wedding photos last night from after dinner until past 3am and finished them up today. I’ve only been away from the computer long enough to do some laundry, take out the trash and get some sleep. Guess I’ll do my errands and grocery shopping after my CPR training tomorrow morning. I’m hoping to have act 1 completed and processed in time to upload everything from work on Sunday, anything more is a bonus.

A few people have asked about a video. Yes I did shoot a video from the booth of Saturday’s rehearsal and the two shows. I’m working on converting everything to digital format so I can do the editing. This was a completely unattended process, I haven’t watched everything during the conversion and haven’t decided on whether or not I’ll release it for public sale. It looks like if I do release it for sale you’ll get Saturday’s show plus Sunday’s presentations as the rehearsal was minus a few people and Sunday was shot with a filter as an experiment. I’ll make a decision once all the other work is completed and I’ve had time to prepare and preview a DVD. This is probably a few weeks away.

Questions/comments/requests are welcome. Comment, email, call, whatever.

I videoed the orchestra concert the other night and will be editing that down to DVD for Mr. McDonald and anyone who wants one, and editing another version (HS only) to send to Disney. Foolishly I didn’t record the brass ensemble because I was unprepared and being the first time I’ve used this new camcorder I didn’t know what kind of battery life I would have. Now I know better and being Christmas and all, now I have a spare battery. Depending on how long it takes me to edit everything down and get stuff uploaded, I might throw the video online for a bit as well.

The sooner I get all this wrapped up, the sooner I can spend time doing some Microsoft studying and Photoshop studying. As soon as I get everything together, I’ll have some announcements and bribes on or shortly after Jan 1.