In a (New) World of My Own

Day 19: Mwahaha! Caira in Las Vegas.

Day 18: Master and apprentice. Taken on September 13, 2009.

Day 17: Day 17: Welcome to ‘I miss my kids’ week.

Yeah, I miss my kids. During the week coming I will be travelling to Dublin in search of work. In that time I’ll be mostly out of touch with the internet and unable to research and upload a photo of the day. To sidestep that I’m putting up previously-unseen (shocker) photos of my kids from the last few months before I left the U.S.A.

I miss you, kiddo.

Day 15: It is now day 16. Taken on January 15, 2010.

It is now 1:04am on day sixteen and I have missed my first day. This is inexcusable – I spent most of today sitting in front of my computer working with photographs.

After about two weeks of putting off my curiosity, I finally subjected my conversations with my wife to a word-frequency analysis, courtesy of Wordle, who produced the shiny image below. To explain the source matter:

-The source was 210kb of Jabber (G-Talk) logs from May 18 2009 through to December 4 2009. In order words a little shy of seven months of talking.
- Emails and logs from other sources (Yahoo, Facebook, AIM) were all excluded as they are essentially negligible.
-Overly common words, such as our own names, were stripped out.

I’ll have none of that ‘Woods’ nonsense on my blog, thank you Jennifer! Meet my niece, Ella, offspring of Joe and Jennifer.

This represents the output from my very last photoshoot in the United States of America – Raj and his awesome family at Town Center and the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas on the cloudy afternoon.

This will be what you will find gracing my wall upon my return to Ireland.

Return to Ireland? Yeah.

After two years of marriage, two years of laughs, tears, hugs and fears Mariah and I have decided that our relationship just cannot go on as it is. To use that favourite term of celebrities, we have ‘irreconcilable differences.’ Our relationship has devolved to the point that there is no middle ground. There is silence or there is arguments. Nothing in-between us that is positive, not even the kids. And it’s sad to me. I’ve watched our marriage slowly erode away, one gesture or harsh word at a time. But it’s done, it is over.

Practically, I am returning to Ireland early on Wednesday morning coming. With immediate effect, (New) World Photography is no longer accepting bookings. Inquires will be politely referred back to this post. For those who wish to remain in contact with me personally, bhalash@gmail.com is my primary personal email address, and I am still active on Facebook. My Google Voice contact number, 702-473-0907 will remain active, but it will no longer connect to a live phone. You can leave a voicemail or SMS, which I will reply to, or if you feel up to dialing internationally, I can be reached at home in Ireland on 0 11 353 91 569128. This blog will remain active too.

Otherwise, thank you and good night.

This is from the photoshoot with Jaclyn and her family in late October. I’m still on a black and white binge in my processing. Not ever photo is equal in black and white, but even those photos which aren’t perfect in B&W are here to preserve the set.