Today has been a great day finally for me, I finally have some eggs. It seems like this season was taking forever to get under way but it has finally happened. This girl laid eggs this morning. She for sure locked up with my Mojo and she may have locked with my spider but I never saw it. So we shall see what happens! Anywho... I checked on her first thing in the morning and there was no sign of eggs, a couple hours later... BAM! 5 pearly whites! 

This was her last night...

This was her this morning!

Here they are lined up all in the tub... Now we wait 2 months... or for the next clutch to be laid... whatever happens first.

This girl should be going next!!!

Until Next Time...

Now before I get into the real seriousness of this post I want to take a minute to apologize for the lack of blog posts. School has had me crazy busy. I am out almost every day shooting photos for class then heading into the dark room to develop and print out the photos. I really want to get some good scans of them to put up on the blog and the website but I haven't had a chance to get it done. They are coming though. Don't you worry!! 

In other news that is more snake related and kinda ties the post in with the real seriousness I have to address. Breeding has been going on. I keep seeing locks from my Mojo boy and my girls. He's the only one thats done anything this season with the girls. I gave up on my spider male even locking and am hoping I get lots of mojos!!

Well anyways, seriousness time for reals. It seems like over the last year the country has been coming down really hard on exotic pet owners. From Reptile owners to fish owners. Anything considered exotic is under attack yet again but this time it is more local and will have a HUGE effect on anyone who lives in LA County. If this were enacted it would do the following:

1. Cages would not be allowed to be stacked.

2. 24/7 staffing if have more than 50 animals in the facility. If less than 50 animals, you must have adequate staffing for at least 8 hours a day. If you have more than 50 fish, reptiles, birds, etc., or any combination thereof, you must staff the facility 24/7.

3. Records must be kept on each "Animal". "Animals" defined in Section 10.08.020 any animal, bird, reptile or fish.

4. Proprietary business information will be available to the public (that could mean Animal Rights groups).

5. The Department may also impose “reasonable conditions” on a breeding license for any non dog or cat breeder.

Now you can understand the importance of doing something and standing up to this. If this were to be in effect in LA there is no telling how long it would take to get enacted everywhere else in United States. This would cause many small in home breeders to shut down or cut way back on their animals. Please take action and take a couple minutes to fill out a form on USARK's website.  http://usark.org/campaign.php?id=14

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The new year has been pretty good for us here at Kesslers Kreatures-LK Imagery. As many of you know Jasmin(My Girlfriend) and I have been unemployed for a while trying our hardest to find work. It has been a really tough time the past year trying to manage and build personal business and pay bills. That is all about to change for one of us at least, Jasmin has a job now. She is doing something that she wants to do when she graduates school. She works at a nursing home, caring for and watching over the elderly. She just started on Wednesday and is loving it so far. She is actually going to school to become a nurse, this just puts her one step closer! She really couldn't be happier about it, and I am pretty happy about it too. I have to admit, the first day of her working a 12 hour day drove me a bit crazy. I didn't have much to do but sit home and wait. Oh well though, It gives me a chance to tend to the animals more and work on photography stuff.

 Speaking of photography stuff, I registered for school and start this coming Monday. My first class will be an introduction to Black and White photography. I was a little weary about this at first because I am not a big fan of black and white photos. I know that just because I don't like them doesn't mean a client won't like them and want some shots in black and white. I learned this the hard way this past weekend when I did a shoot and the client wanted some black and whites. I was not particularly happy with the shots that I had taken in black and white but i turned them over to the client anyways. I hope this class will better help me appreciate the art of black and white photography and give me some better techniques to apply it to my own photography. We will see how it goes, maybe the blog will have a black and white picture mixed in from time to time.

This weekend is also a pretty big deal, it is the Reptile Super Show in Pasadena. We are going to be there as always! Some friends of ours are driving in from out of town to hang out and go to the show, They don't get to head out this way much so were pretty excited to see them. As always I will have my camera in tow and hopefully get some good photos for the blog. I know I say I'll post after the show and what not but I never do so this time I am not even going to say I will. It just gets too hard while trying to hang out and mingle! We shall be back on Monday or Tuesday with a full recap of the show!

P.S... I have promised the Rose Parade photos but haven't had a free moment to sort through them. They are coming... I promise! :)

 

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I have not turned on my computer much since the Monday before Christmas, Shocking I know! I have not had the time. We have been so busy with holiday festivities! We are gearing up this week to head to Pasadena for the Rose Parade. Were going out there on Friday and spending the night out there to watch the parade in the morning. I used to do it when I was a kid all the time and decided it was time to do it again! We are crazy excited to go out and hang out. It should be a blast, it always was when I was a kid!

 I will have my camera all night and day, there should be a MAJOR blog post after the rose parade at some point, most likely after a day of recuperating from staying up all night and freezing our asses off. I will be tweeting the whole night though if your interested in our going ons while there.

 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! Thanks for reading for almost a year now, I will keep on posting if you keep on reading!

 

Stay Tuned...

My photography has be lacking a bit lately, I just haven't been really motivated to go out and shoot random things. I am getting much more interested in shooting people and it is taking away my focus of loving photography. Not that I don't love taking photos, I just have been focusing on building my career as a photographer and not just taking photos for me. I heard about this 365 project, it is a really cool concept and I can't wait to get going with it and see what it becomes. The idea is that I take a photo every day for 365 days and put them up on flickr. The photos can be of anything I want, I just have to post them one a day. I am hoping that I stick with it and get some cool photos. It will be nice to see how my photos look at the end of the year. I will try to post some of them here if not all of them but if I fail to do so you can see them on my flickr at www.flickr.com/kesslerskreatures

 

This is my first photo, I decided to take a photo of the snakes and my business card because it shows my photography hobby and my snake hobby.

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Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching! I love this time of year, nothing beats spending time with family, friends and eating great food! Were going to be spending a majority of this week with Jasmin's family, It has been a while since we have hung out with her Grandma and the rest of her family. Were out in Phelan right now actually, I am blogging from the kitchen table staring out at the pitch black night. I love it out here, we go outside late at night and we can see the stars so well. It is absolutely breathtaking how beautiful the sky is at night when you don't have the city lights ruining it. I am actually going to try and take some long exposure shots of the sky and see what I can come up with, maybe even get some shooting stars. I have see quite a few while out here. After Thanksgiving on Thursday we are going to head back down to home. Were going to stop at Heather's and hit up that black Friday sales with her! It should be a crazy morning, I have never been shopping on black Friday! Once we get all the shopping our of our system we are going to head home to Long Beach to spend the day with my family. We are going to do the day after Thanksgiving feast. I can't wait, it is going to be a good time all week. Then the weekend will be just as fun but I will get into that later on!

 

This past week I mentioned a mock E-Session I was going to do with Heather and Joel. I was supposed to post some photos from the shoot but I never got around to it because we left for Phelan earlier than we had planned. I don't have all the photos from the shoot with me right now because I transferred them to my external hard drive before we left. I didn't think we were going to have the internet up here so I did not prepare photos for bloggity blog.  I do however have a couple pics that I had already watermarked and are ready for posting! I hope you enjoy! Thanks again Heather and Joel for letting me continuously shoot you!

Those are the only ones I have for now, Let me know what you think in the comments section!

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Herp World Expo Pasadena is this weekend! I can not wait. We will be at the Heather's Herps table like we are every show! We are very excited to be going out to Pasadena for the show, It is going to be a great weekend. I know I always say I am going to try and keep you guys update with blogs or tweets but I have made it a point to have people remind me while I am there to at least tweet.  So try and keep an eye out for my tweets because I have to tweet for everyone!

Also if you are going to be at the show please come say hi!

 

Until Next Time...

 

Hello Internets!!!

My new site is officially up and running! Take a look around and let me know what you think! If you have any suggestions just leave a comment for me! I want to thank Brittney Gougeon of Reptile Creative for helping me get this site off the ground! Since we have a new place to call home I am going to make it as cozy as can be! I will be posting more here and trying to keep everything updated whether it be new photos, or just a blog whatever is on my mind!

 

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Lewie!