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Todd Spoth — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:16:21 +0000

This is my first blog in quite some time. Ever since I returned home to Houston from Rio it has been 95% dreary and rainy. Ive forgotten how miserable the January’s here can get. To amend my misery I found out earlier this week that the Houston Chronicle staff position I had interviewed for back in December was filled. I was definately proud of myself for making it as far as I did. It would have been great to be able to gain some staff experience at such a large metro paper as well as stay here, where my friends and home are, but things don’t always work that way. I still have some irons in the fire though. Smiley and the rest of the Chron staff are going to throw a lot of freelance work my way, and I’ve been doing quite a bit of freelance work myself. The commercial stuff definately pays well, but as for right now, its really not as fulfilling as I want my work to be. I did however get my G9 back from Canon repair and have been toying with that this week. The shot seen here is one that I took this afternoon near my apartment. These birds gather by the thousands at one particular intersection. Its neat to see half of them parked and motionless and the rest frantically flying about. Ive seen this shot a million times before and finally nabbed something today from the car. This little G9 is proving to be a gem.

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