People Persons Paper People

Had a fun shoot with my wife and our friend Katie. Bonnie and I traded off the camera for the 30 minutes we shot. Lighting was hard, weather was an issue, and the camera refused to focus correctly. So all around perfect shoot. I think the time we spent driving to and from was longer then the time we were actually shooting. Katie was a great sport and fun to work with. Check in soon for some new pics. Looking to do some photos on Tuesday. Stay Classy Portland. I'm Shawn Ingersoll?

Photo Shoot

Went around my apartment complex and took over 270 pictures. After deliberation, editing, and rolling around in the mud, I bring you the best of the best. I'm hoping to do some shooting tomorrow so check back in!

Rogue Brewery

While on our honeymoon in Newport last July, Bonnie and I stopped in at a local brewery/restaurant called Rogue. Its right next to the Oregon Coast Aquarium. Great food, good beer, and an awesome view of the beach. Rogue is based in Newport and is known for its Dead Guy Ale. They have really creative bottles, and they run just over $5 a pint. They have some crazy flavors from peppermint, mocha and chocolate. So tonight I though it would be fun to take some pics of the pints we had. Enjoy and while your out treat yourself to your favorite flav! Check in for pics this weekend.

Ordered a Zoom lens...

Should get it next Tuesday. Next I hope to get a wide angle tamron lens...but for the time being they are sold out. I'm going do some shooting this weekend and hopefully tomorrow if I have time, so check in by sunday night for some more pics.

-Shawn

Historic Win for Barack Obama!

A day after his very close and influential grandmother dies, Barrack Obama has become the first black president.




Following Excerpt By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent

--WASHINGTON – Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation's first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. "Change has come," he told a jubilant hometown Chicago crowd.

The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, the Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his historic triumph by defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in a string of wins in hard-fought battleground states — Ohio, Florida, Iowa and more. He captured Virginia and Indiana, too, the first candidate of his party in 44 years to win either.

Obama's election capped a meteoric rise — from mere state senator to president-elect in four years.

Spontaneous celebrations erupted from Atlanta to New York and Philadelphia as word of Obama's victory spread. Supporters filled Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House.

In his first speech as victor, to well over 100,000 people in Grant Park in Chicago, Obama catalogued the challenges ahead. "The greatest of a lifetime," he said, "two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century."

He added, "There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president, and we know that government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face."

McCain called his former rival to concede defeat — and the end of his own 10-year quest for the White House. "The American people have spoken, and spoken clearly," McCain told disappointed supporters in Arizona.

President Bush added his congratulations from the White House, where his tenure runs out on Jan. 20. "May God bless whoever wins tonight," he had told dinner guests earlier.

Obama, in his speech, invoked the words of Lincoln, recalled Martin Luther King Jr., and seemed to echo John F. Kennedy.

"So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder," he said.

He and his running mate, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, will take their oaths of office as president and vice president on Jan. 20, 2009. McCain remains in the Senate.

Sarah Palin, McCain's running mate, returns to Alaska as governor after a tumultuous debut on the national stage.

He will move into the Oval Office as leader of a country that is almost certainly in recession, and fighting two long wars, one in Iraq, the other in Afghanistan.

The popular vote was close — 51.7 percent to 47 percent with 84 percent of all U.S. precincts tallied — but not the count in the Electoral College, where it mattered most.

There, Obama's audacious decision to contest McCain in states that hadn't gone Democratic in years paid rich dividends.

Shortly after 2 a.m. in the East, The Associated Press count showed Obama with 349 electoral votes, well over the 270 needed for victory. McCain had 144 after winning states that comprised the normal Republican base, including Texas and most of the South.

By comparison, Bush won the White House twice, and never tallied more than 286 electoral votes.

Four states remained unsettled — Georgia, Missouri, Montana and North Carolina. All voted for Bush in 2004.

Said Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California: "Tonight the American people have called for a new direction. They have called for change in America."

Weekend after Halloween

Went out last Saturday with my wife and showed her the ropes with photography. She did an amazing job especially for being so new at it. She uploaded a few pic on her BLOG, so check it out. Shot in Oregon City outside of an old library. Had a great time, the lighting was perfect, and it didn't rain...