Hey, everybody. Check out my dad’s cool new website for his photography business, Gary Clarke Photos. Denny helped him get it set up, including the ecommerce portion and a really cool gallery generator that Denny invented.

My dad has worked for decades doing photography for Iowa State athletics; if you’ve ever seen the big sports schedule posters around Ames, that’s probably his work. For a variety of reasons, he’s interested in branching out into youth sports, and the website will be a good delivery medium.

He’s really the best sports photographer around. We were looking at other sports photography sites to get ideas for how other people do them, and I couldn’t believe how downright crappy so many of the images are (and I won’t even get started on the terrible web design). I hope people recognize what great work he does.

Oh, I forgot to mention a funny thing that happened.  I was sleeping last night and I dreamed that Denny and some other people had done something very strange and scientific to me.  I don’t remember what it was, but I think it had to do with swapping out my regular Aprille molecules with weird molecules.  Though it was temporarily unpleasant, it was going to have a positive end.  I was mad at him not necessarily because he did it, but because he did it without asking me.  I half-woke up and said to him, “Was it against my will?”  He made some gurgly sleep noise.  I said, all grumpy-like, “We’ll talk about this in the morning.”  And then I wouldn’t let him snuggle me.