It’s been a while!

So much has happened since I last posted here! About five years or so, way too long. Life for me took quite the turn in the latter part of 2016 with the passing of my mother. I haven’t really been the same since. Fast forward two years later and Veneshia, the beautiful, determined woman that I was seeing, unexpectedly passed away. So the last few years have been full of depression and lack of will. BUT! I am slowly getting my drive back! I’ve been a little more active lately, thanks to this Apple Watch, (oh yeah, I fell down the Apple rabbit hole, iPhone 11, Apple Watch 6, Apple TV, no MacBook yet though!) where was I again?? Well this post is long enough, to the point!

I‘be slowly been healing and am committing to photograph much more! Planning another self-portrait shoot this week just to play with shadows again and hopefully I’ll be testing out my shadow portrait skills on a friend of mine soon! 🤞🏽

New Categories!

Hello! Post number two! I was out shooting again today! Got a few shots from downtown Southlake when I was visiting a friend at her job, and afterwards I hung out at Founder's Plaza at D/FW Airport. Actually managed to get quite a few good shots despite my camera's limited range! :D I love plane watching! Funny thing though, I've never actually been on a plane! I'll have to go back once I get a camera with a long range lens! In other news , I've added a few new categories! Aviation, which will consist of all metal flying things. Life as It Happens, which will be dedicated to the human element(currently empty) and Urban Jungle which will consist of buildings and such! So please give them a look and let me know what you think!

Thank you for your time! -Michael

New website and an evening with Yanni

So wow! Where to start! I guess I'll start with this site! If you've read the section under the guitar pic on the home page then you know part of the backstory. If not, please do so when you have a chance! Anyway I started thinking after I got my camera that I wanted and needed a place of my own to put my pictures. Facebook is nice, but it doesn't belong to me. So I started to put them on my wordpress. Then I got to thinking, why not have your own domain? So that's exactly what I did! What do you think of the name HOBBYSHOTS? PLEASE LEAVE ME YOUR FEEDBACK! :-)

Now, lets get on to last night which was simply AMAZING! Yanni brought a completely new setlist to Grand Prairie last night! He had quite a few songs that I'm not familiar with, (I need to brush up on my Yanni, I've fallen behind!) he also brought some classics to the table and him and his team performed them flawlessly! Charlie dousing his cymbals with water was pretty damn funny! I really hope Gabriel packs an umbrella next time! And of course I got to see the beautiful, talented vocalists Lisa and Lauren! (CONFESSION: I didn't see Lauren until halfway through their first song! The reason being is that I was near the far right of the stage which put me in position to notice Lisa first.) Fantastic performance from those two, I absolutely love hearing their voices together! After the show, I hung around to hopefully give Lisa a hug! (you owe me two hugs Lavie :-p ) I got to visit with Nightingale, she rocks! What I didn't expect was to meet Yoel Del Sol and shake his hand. He's a very nice fellow! Also unexpected was that I sort of met YANNI! I didn't introduce myself because there were a dozen fans hanging around, but I did say HI! He truly is an amazing person! Being able to witness the interaction between him and his fans was incredible! I hope to be able to introduce myself to him next time, shake his hand and tell him THANK YOU!