Photography What's the Boy Scout Motto Again? Jon Hillenbrand, August 4, 2009October 17, 2019 Continued from Motivation When you suddenly find yourself locked out of your car that is in drive and stuck in a snow drift, your options are somewhat limited. Your mind races. Possibilities that had not occurred to you just moments before, such as freezing to death while huddled around your…
Photography Motivation Jon Hillenbrand, June 24, 2009October 17, 2019 It’s funny how easy it is to do something when you have the proper motivation. I’m sure the military is well aware of this through the use of drill sergeants. Back when I was working out on a daily basis, my motivation wasn’t an inconsolably angry person in a smoky…
Photography Parents Jon Hillenbrand, June 23, 2009October 17, 2019 There are these people, you probably know them. They are your birth parents and the people who raised you. Sometimes these are the same people, sometimes not. And like you, they are separate from you, individuals. They party or they don’t, they have dreams, they sacrifice, they are selfish and…
Photography Advice Jon Hillenbrand, May 26, 2009October 17, 2019 Advice is a funny thing. Advice is nostalgic statements that people give out to help them feel better about their own choices in life. I’ve always believed that since most of the advice I’ve ever gotten has seemed off a little to me. Like the time I talked to my…
Photography Organizing the Organization Jon Hillenbrand, May 7, 2009October 17, 2019 Lesson for all budding photographers out there: BE ORGANIZED. I may have a messy apartment, and maybe my desk is a little disheveled, but take a look at any part of my computer or the digital asset databases that I have domain over and you will see that they are…
Photography Creative Urges Jon Hillenbrand, April 29, 2009October 17, 2019 Look at this… [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.817262&w=512&h=296&fv=] There’s creativity, and then there’s blow your mind creativity. As a photographer among many accountants, I’m often labeled as an artist at my admitedly very corporate job. And sometimes that feels good because I want to be someone different from the regular pack animal. I’d…
Photography Flashback Jon Hillenbrand, April 28, 2009October 17, 2019 It’s a very strange thing to look over some of the facebook/flashback pages of people from grade school that I left behind the day I moved on from 8th grade. I look over the friends of one person that I didn’t mind only to find that they are friends with…
Photography For All Mankind Jon Hillenbrand, April 14, 2009October 17, 2019 Ninety-seven years ago today, an undersized rudder, brittle steel, faux smoke stacks, too few life boats and general human asshattery conspired to bring about one of the most widely publicized boating accidents in human history. “Iceberg, right ahead!” was the call and 37 seconds later the Titanic buckled her side…
Photography Weekend Work Jon Hillenbrand, April 1, 2009October 17, 2019 So have you ever felt like it was Friday when it was only Wednesday? Or did you ever think the week must almost be over, but it’s only Tuesday? It’s like our mental clocks are just getting back from vacation with a tan and stories while you’ve been slaving away…
Photography Waking up Jon Hillenbrand, March 10, 2009October 17, 2019 “How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?” -Plato, 428 – 348 BC I was told by my father once that if you write down…
Photography My God, it's full of stars! Jon Hillenbrand, February 15, 2009October 17, 2019 “I was driving back, and I looked up and I couldn’t believe it. I pulled over and got out of my car and I just started crying.” -Anne Hillenbrand, upon seeing the bright stars in the clear Kankakee sky I would spend hours gazing up at the stars when I…
Photography Rabbit Run Jon Hillenbrand, February 14, 2009October 17, 2019 If you are looking for a very nice little home in upstate New York, close to mountains and gorgeous fun roads, my parents are selling my grandparents’ home, which they helped build. I put together a website with details on the building of the home, the way the home looks…
Photography The CYA Email Bitch Slap Jon Hillenbrand, February 14, 2009October 17, 2019 There are few moments in life as satisfying as the moment when you get to prove yourself correct in an argument. You may remember this moment demonstrated in Annie Hall. Well today, blog, I had that moment. I was in the midst of scheduling hell (by the way, I’ve determined…
Photography Lips Jon Hillenbrand, February 12, 2009October 17, 2019 Lips are amazing. Here’s an interesting experiment. Take a paperclip. Unfold it just to the point where it forms a perfect U shape. Now make the two point ends about an index finger tip width apart. Close your eyes. Press the two points on the bare skin of your…
Photography More Details Surface On My Swimming Obsession Jon Hillenbrand, February 11, 2009October 17, 2019 When I lived in Kankakee, there was nothing to do. I was there for almost a year before someone decided to put in a high end work out facility in the middle of a bunch of cornfields. This place, called the Riverside Health and Fitness Center, was awesome. Climbing wall,…