The Chronicles of John Trammell

For those who don't know, I am a photographer, and I am a person who loves nature.  Today was a great day for taking photos, so I went to Aurantia Park on Greenspot Road to take some photos.  I figured there would be some great nature photos close to home that I can take.    At just, I was doing great and enjoying nature.  Until I got to the back, or the north of the park.  I saw nothing but trash.  And not just any trash, but broken and unbroken paintballs, paint splaters on rocks, and many opened condom wrappers...and event one used condom!  I started taking pics of all of the trash and what not.  This is a very sick thing.  As I was finding these opened condom wrappers, 4 little kids walked by, and there was also broken beer bottles and so forth.  If i wasn't standing where the condom wrappers where, i bet the kids would have seen them.  This is a sick world we are living in at the moment, and this is just pissing me of...

Yesterday, I went with my parents to a used car place in San Bernardino.  They showed me 6 different cars they wanted me to get.  After test driving 5 of the 6, I have choosen the one that runs the best, and that can fit the computer lab I drive around for work.   My new mode of transportation is a 1998 Pontiac Sunfire.  It has 78,400 miles on the car, runs extremely well compaired to my last car, and seems to handle well on the road.  There are manythings that are much better in this car.  The radio has a CD player, the power windows are so much better then the last car.  Thank god it has a cup holder.  My last car didn’t have one.  It made things differecuilt.  The engine is a V4, which is less power then my last car; that was a V6.  But the car seems to run well.  I just have to get used to less power....lol....It is supposed to get good gas milage, but we will have to see.  I have a feeling this car will last lo...

My car has officially kicked the bucket. The repairs to fix the car would cost $1500-$2000, and that is about double the worth of the car. Have had it for 3 years, and now it will sit here till we get ride of it....most likely take it to pick a part. So now i have no way to get to school or to work. But i will be able to use my mom’s car the next two weeks since she will be on spring break....now its time to shop for a new car. I wont be able to travel places for fun or anywhere that cost money, because i have to save to get a car. I have about $600 bucks to my name and thats it. So this is going to be a hard time ahead. But I know that I will get though it.

For those of you know know my awesome friend Scott Boudreau, he has been in the Marine Boot Camp in San Diego for the past 12 weeks. He has been though some though times while in boot camp, and he was tested for asthma last weekend. He has tested positive, and due to that diagnose; he has been honorary discharged from service. He will be coming home in about 2 weeks. I have been extremely proud of him, and I am glad he is finally able to come home.

For the past 12 years, I have been taking photographs, having them displayed all over southern california, and have won awards for my work.  I learned how to take photographs with a 35mm camera.  All of my best winner photographs have been taken on film.  As time goes on, i feel that people have forgotten the legacy of how good film is.  With digital cameras making life so much easier, people seem to forget film.  It makes it hard for people like me who love to take Black & White photographs.  I feel that digital is not yet at a place where it can take really good black and white.  With a 35 mm film or with any film camera for that matter, you can get some really good quality stuff.  There is no one around anymore that developes black and white film.  Im not talking about that one film from kodak that you can process like color prints.  Im talking the true black and white films.  I cant even find those films in the local stores ...

This past weekend has been one hell of an adventure with one of my friends that I met in 4-H, but moved to Indiana. On friday afternoon, I drove down to Santa Monica to meet up with Jess.  I was an hour early, so i parked and walked down to the beach to watch the sunset.  After the sun disapeared in the horizon jess called me and said her conference was over and she will meet me at her hotel.  Instead of walking to the car and driving, i decided to walk a few blocks to her hotel. We met up, took her lugage to the car, and of course go back to the Santa Monica Pier to go geocaching.  Sadly, there where only 3 caches in the area.  After we found the caches, we decided to head off home since we thought the traffic calmed down.  It was alittle bad, but we got home under 2 hours.  We stoped in Redlands to eat dinner at denny's.  Woot! That night we begun to plan our main geocaching day on saturday.  Around 1 in the morning we noticed there wer...

For the past year, I have been a student worker hired out of UC Davis to work for Operation: Military Kids....Working with a pay of $11.00 a hour and my title was Computer Technical Specialist/Web Master.  As of Dec. 31st, that job ended, and as of Jan 7th, i was hired at UC Riverside, still for Operation: Military Kids.  I took over my old co-workers job.  My new title is: Computer Resource Specialist.  I run and maintain the websites still, and a 15 laptop computer mobile lab.  I also plan trainings at different military bases and even go to events on bases.  I now make $16.50 an hour....woot...the sad thing is, this only goes till September 1....so we will see what happens after that.  I work at the office in Riverside every Tuesday and Thursdays...and of course, i might have work trips on the weekends.