2010ccoming to a close......2011 just begining.................

Hope to bring better information to you this next year....I will be back telling of my forays into HDR and other adventures as I can....so with that....

Have a very HAPPY and SAFE NEW YEARS.......

PayPal....why I love them......

I buy and sell on line....a lot.....I have for many years, well over 10.
I got started when I heard of something called Ebay......but then there was no PayPal,
and I had to pay by debit card......well some how my bank acct was hacked and I lost all my money for nearly 2 weeks, I had overdrafts out the ying yang....but the bank came thru and wrote off the overdrafts and finally after almost 2 weeks I got my money back...........Then I was at the post office and ran into a guy I hadn't seen in a few years and he had started his own online business and he was telling me of this great payment company called PayPal.......He had went from being nearly destitute to racking in over 2 grand every couple of days. So I checked into it and read their terms and it all seemed ok except that if they thought you were doing anything illegal they would close your account and take your money....that did not hardly seem right............Right now your wondering why I love them .....well....read on......

I heard a few weeks later that this acquaintance had lost over 10k to PayPal because they thought he was selling drugs over the internet...it seemed logical to PayPal because he started out making less than $100/month 3 months ago and now he was doing 10K every few days.....so they seized his account........

After a long drawn out battle he got his money back and his attorney fees paid and he actually profited since all went his way.......there was absolutely nothing in the news about this but I got to see the documents as we hung out at the same club and he was proud of his victory.....

So I joined PayPal and used it for buying online as it kept my debit card info hidden from the companies I was buying from....then I got sold some real junk and luckily I had made a screen shot of the auction and sent it to paypal and ebay because the seller was refusing a refund on an improperly described item....(counterfeit memory cards)......took all of 3 days to get money back.....

Now I am feeling good about using them as they were instrumental in getting my refund....then my account was hacked and a couple of idiots in Germany bought several hundred $ worth of cell phone components...and again I had overdraft charges.
Well I took in PayPal's number and my bank called them and the overdrafts went away, that day, and all my bills were paid on time...PayPal agreed to get my money back from Germany, so my bank went ahead and authorized an advance into my account for the missing money...PayPal came thru again.....

I have had no problems since....I really like the fact that i can buy online and no one gets my bank info but PayPal....I do not have to enter any info on selling sites I am visiting to purchase.......

I still feel they are the safest way to shop online and I rad all the PayPal sux sites and all the disgruntled reports, but what I have found is that well of 90% of all the disgruntled reports are from idiots that do not comply with the use of PayPal....most of them sell items and only accept payment thru PayPal as a gift to avoid paying the PayPal fees.....PayPal as far as I know does not prosecute for this but they will shut down your account.........

As I said I am a PayPal fan and I do not accept any other payment method for online purchases, monthly payments on wedding bookings and such........also it means that I never saw or had privy to my clients Credit Cards or bank info....one less theing I need to worry about.

Have a fantastic NEW YEAR!!!!

Mailing Lists...........I hate them......and WHY I use a cell phone for business...

I have an affinity to junk mail or mail sent to me by advertisers that bought my address (whether email or postal mail) from a mailing list provider........just plugs up mail boxes.........so I started a FAN page on FaceBook.....under the NOTES Tab I will be posting my special offers through out this next year....this way when I run a special all of my fans know days before anyone else and those fans can let their friends and family know.

so if you are not a fan then you should become one...........

Why I use a cell phone for business.......simply because I do not want to miss a call, also I shoot wildlife and Landscapes. So when I am out shooting wildlife and landscapes I can sll talk to you about your wedding or portrait needs and when you call you get a silly machine saying I am not in the office....out in nature my phone is on vibrate only but I will call you back as soon as I get the message that a call was missed and no one has to wait for a day or 2 to have a call returned, even if I am out of state shooting a city like Lexington Ky for a book publisher or at a destination wedding........

HAPPY HOLIDAYS and A VERY PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR FOR ALL!!!

Become my Fan on FaceBook.....& HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS and.....

Become my fan on FaceBook, by cliking the banner to the right.
I will be posting specials for Portraits, Weddings, Senior Portraits and also for my Wall Art....that is strictly for my fans......


HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR! ! ! ! !

Christmas Bazaar - Wichita Kansas 12-11-2010 - 9Am to 4Pm.....

X-Mas Bazaar 1156 N Oliver Wichita Ks..... Saturday 12-11-2010 - Time 9am to 4Pm .... come out and look at all the fine X-mas gifts just waiting to be owned by you, including some great photos by me and I also have 4 copies of Wichita Visions, great book about Wichita.............and photos with Santa!!!

1156 N Oliver is the Victory Temple OutReach Ministries Church.....parking and Bazaar entrance in the rear of the Church!!!!

Come one.....Come All..........................

MPIX......Mpix PRO actually - Customer Service Praise!!!

Well I made an order yesterday for prints from Mpix Pro......i had seen thousands of ads of Mpix in various mags and other places, but my website is hosted on SmugMug and they are partnered with Bay Photo......of course no one on Dgrin will ever have a bad thing to say about Bay, but that is of no consequence to me......i decided I wanted to keep my money as close to home as possible and since no one in
Wichita could meet my printing demands without paying hellacious penalties for super rush orders i decided to go to Mpix...they have a plant in Pittsburgh Ks.....so keeping money in state economy...is a good thing....so I posted the order...now not without a bit of frustration, which turned out to be my fault....I had used 2 different passwords on the site and then on roes the ordering system and it could not authenticate me....but it did not tell me where the problem was...just said it / we had a prob........so after about 3 hours of cursing all photo ordering systems called Roes...I emailed customer support then got up from computer to get a drink of diet ginger ale (c-dry only) and to my surprise I had a reply...so off we went, emails flying back and forth......and by the 3 email I got a reply telling me the prob was fixed...less than 30 minutes total and my order was uploading to them.....THAT IS CUSTOMER SERVICE.....
then today I get an email stating that my order is on it way...should arrive tomorrow - Friday......AGAIN THAT IS CUSTOMER SERVICE......GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE...