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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The semester is rapidly coming to an end and I can't believe how fast it came and went. It has flown by so fast, I really hope the rest of my schooling goes by this fast! I have already taken one final for my English class and I have another one on the 17th of December. I also have a math final coming up on Monday. I cannot wait to be out of school for a few weeks. It will be nice to get ready for the holidays with friends and family. I will be back to my regular scheduled blogging once school is out. I leave you all with a couple questions, What are you all doing for the holidays? Have any good family traditions? Let me know in the comments section!

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A lot has been happening around here since my last post. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with Jasmin's family up in Phelan. We ate a ton of Turkey, Stuffing and all the fixins. We made a ton of tamales the entire time we were out there, that is pretty much ALL we did the days leading up to Thanksgiving day. It was really fun learning how to make them from start to finish, I can now appreciate all the hard work that goes into making them and understand why they are only made once a year! We ended up leaving around 10:00 at night and heading out to Heather's house for Black Friday festivities! We went to Wal-mart to partake in the craziness that is Black Friday and boy was it CRAZY! I have always heard stories about how incredibly insane things were but I did not fully understand until I had lived it myself. We arrived at Wal-mart around 11:30 PM and waiting it out until we were allowed to purchase items that were on sale. We were not allowed to even touch anything until they announced over the loud speaker at 5 in the morning that shopping was now allowed. There were hordes of people pushing and shoving trying to get to the items they wanted. Come 5 O' clock all hell broke loose! There was a ton of pushing and shoving going on and people snatching their wanted items left and right! It was really unlike any shopping experience I have ever had before. We did get all of the items that we went there for, I bought Jasmin a TomTom GPS, she has been wanting one! I also picked up a couple movies and a timer for the Chameleon lights! After we got home on Friday we slept for about 3 hours and woke up to spend a Post Thanksgiving day with my family. My aunt and my cousins came out and we had a complete feast! It was delicious! I have had a ton of turkey over the course of two days! Saturday was a 3rd Thanksgiving! We spent the afternoon/evening with Heather and Joel. We didn't have Turkey though, Heather and Joel each made their own pork tenderloin! It was like we were on Iron Chef! We were able to try both and enjoy both of their styles of cooking! It was a rather fun night! That is our Thanksgiving week/weekend!

Another reason this blog has been a little neglected is because school is almost over! The first semester is coming to a close, we only have 2 weeks left of school and our teachers are packing on the work! We have been so busy with homework! I do not know how we would be able to manage if we had full time jobs! I for one can not wait til the semester is over so I can focus on doing some more photography gigs and posting more here! I feel so bad for neglecting my readers! Speaking of... I want to thank you all who read my blog! I know it is not much but I have a blast posting up for everyone to read. My reader base has been growing too! Thank you all and keep reading! Tell  your friends too!

For one last note... Snake Sex has begun! It is now that time of year! I have begun pairing and have seen a couple locks! The males are actually on break right now but next time I pair I will take some photos!

Have a great week!

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It's been a couple days since I have blogged but I have a good reason for it. I promise! I have been working on my English essay that was due today. My essay was a rather interesting one, We had to chose an issue that not many people know about and write our opinion about it. I was actually very quick to come up with my topic, I chose to write about the ban on boas and pythons. HR2811 is a big deal to keepers of these types of snakes and it would affect me and I felt it should be brought to more peoples attention. I was really happy with the way my paper turned out. I feel like I was able to get my point across.

When we turned in our paper we had to give a 5 minute presentation to our fellow classmates and teacher. At first I was a little apprehensive about this because I wasn't sure how to drag out a 4 page paper into 5 minutes. I then had a brilliant idea, I took a few of my animals for a little show and tell type thing. I used my animals to show the morphs and the color variations that can occur. I made it a point to say that if importing was to cease then there would never be a new color morph that was imported. My class seemed rather interested in the whole presentation. I had a few questions about the animals, Over all I feel that the presentation went pretty good!

There is not much else going on this week, I have a little bit of a lull in photoshoots and snake business. So to keep my photography going I am going to go back and revisit some old photos, Maybe process them differently or just see what I could of done differently. I need to buckle down and stay focused!

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