My Weekend: Photo Walks, I Screwed Up, and Daisy Mae-Interviewed,

The weekend was spent- mostly- doing the Lend a Helping Can photo walks with a bunch of AWESOME listeners who paid to go out with me, and my friends Scott Thorp and Doug Harrington and learn about photography! Together- the folks who came on the trips helped us raise $8000.00 to help feed families in need!

We headed up to Portland - thanks to Great Bay Limousine - to visit Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth for some early morning shooting, and then headed over to the Portland waterfront to check out the docks there.

Heres the group pics-

Day 1 - Doug, Peter, Bryan, Jim, Barbara, Mike, Scott, me Wendy, Chris, Patrick and Tom

And Day 2- Diane, Steve and Chelsea, Doug, Kim, Scott, Beth, Nancy, Karen, Aaron and me -

And here's my screw up - JUST as we were posing for the pic above, I tried to make everyone laugh by LOUDLY saying the word - "PENIS"!!

And as I did so - this happened-

A FAMILY - WITH 2 KIDS- INCLUDING A YOUNG GIRL WALKED BY!

Man- if you could have seen the LOOK I got from that kid behind the Dad! Oh man - I was HORRIFIED!

Everybody else laughed hysterically! Me? Not so much- haha

In between helping other folks with their cameras - I did get a couple chances to grab a couple shots myself-

Here's one I liked from the docks near Widgery Wharf. I loved all the colors and textures of the worn wooden wharf, alone with the frayed ropes and old boat in the background.

A closer look at the ropes..... frayed and beaten by salt water, wind and cold-

And over at Bug Light park- I caught a guy flying a kite-

And we ended the second trip by grabbing a beer at Gritty McDuffs in Portland. And- yeah - I ended up chugging it at the behest of the group!! hahah -

I spent more time out (415am- 2pm both Sat and Sun), but we did get to relax. The kids came over with friends and had a fire in the backyard-

Always love times like that. Just friends, chilling by a fire, having some drinks, listening to tunes and talking. Cool night to watch and be a part of -

And we're still settling in with Daisy Mae - or newly adopted rescue pup....

And I took a half a minute to do a quick interview with Daisy Mae - you know, because her schedule is SO busy (as the above photo attests to!) -

Here she is -

And this is pretty much how the weekend ended......haha- the ride back from day 2 of the photo shoots-

Hope you had a good weekend!

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