The Chronicles of John Trammell

Hi Everyone, I have decided that I shall post all my Social Networking information as well as other ways to contact me, for I have many different ways of communication, and i love to use them all.  Everything is below! Google techdude4h@gmail.com Myspace http://myspace.com/j4hdude Facebook John Trammell  |  Create Your Badge Twitter http://twitter.com/JohnTrammell Blogger http://johntrammell.blogspot.com AOL Instant Messanger jwt4hdude Deviantart jwt-photography.deviantart.com  Xbox Live Gamertag Agt Washingtub So all above are ways to follow whats going on with me or get into contact with me...woot

     From Friday November 6th to 8th, I was at the 2009 California 4-H State Leaders' Forum at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove near Monterey, California.  This conference is for 4-H Volunteer Leaders to come together and attend workshops that will better improve their leadership skills, give them project ideas, and have some fun. This conference was a very enjoyable conference, and I can't wait for next years.      My parents and I flew up late on Thursday night into San Jose, and stayed at a hotel just around the corner.  When we got to the hotel we where staying, I was shocked at the quality of the hotel.  Over the past few years, I have traveled a lot for work, 4-H, and personal reasons, and when I stay at a hotel, i normally stay in a higher up hotel.  It was a change to go back to the basics, but I got used to it.  At least there was internet.  The next morning, we checked out of the hotel, picked up a...

Hi everyone,     This is my new blog.  I have been blogging a lot on myspace.com over the past few years, but over the last year, myspace's popularity has gone down, so this is a wise decision to move over to Blogger :) To view my other blog, go to   www.myspace.com/j4hdude

In this blog, I have decided to share with you how I grew to be the photographer I am today.  Over the past few years, I have always had people ask me how I got involved into photography, and ask for some pointers.  I have been studying photography for a good portion of my life, and it isn’t going to end any time soon.  It all began 14 years ago, in 1995.       December 4 th , 1995 was my very first photography project meeting with my local 4-H club, Arroyo Verde 4-H Club, in Highland, CA.  With that first meeting, I learned how to how to take care of camera equipment, and how to begin looking around to shoot better photographs.  I received a camera from my parents, which was a 110 Instamatic Camera.  The camera didn’t have any real settings, but it was a good camera to begin composition of a photograph.  With a growing interest in the field of photography, created a demonstration presentation called “How to Take Care of a C...

Hi guys,  it has been a few months since I have had any activity on my blog.  I figure I give you an update of how things are going.  Well, first off im sick right now   and I have been since for the past 5 days.  I am slowly but surely getting better. School started, and work schedule went back to normal, and that has been the main part of my time these past few months.  In the 4-H world, had a few meetings.  Things are looking great for the Teen Involvement Conference.  I am on the planning committee for the 2010 State Leaders' Forum, and I finally got the logo for the conference done and two possible guest speakers for the events. This past weekend I was in Davis for two meetings.  Friday was a work meeting and Saturday was a Computer Corps meeting.  The main thing about that meeting was to restructure the team, so one thing that has changed is that we renamed the team to the California 4-H Technology Leadership Team.  It...

Two Weeks after I had returned home from visiting Emily in Indiana, she arrived in Southern California to chill with me for 8 days.  Originally, she was traveling out to chill with a friend at his parents house in Long Beach.   Their friendship went sour, and decided that she and I will just chill, for we didn't want her to waste the money of a plane ticket.  This has to be the most traveled trip while Emily was here in California, and it was very tiring.  Barton Flats Camping Trip      With the short notice of Emily's plans changing while she was in California, my parents where not too happy about the situation, and said she isn't allowed over at the house.  So I needed to find something to do to where we would have a good time, and not have to pay tons of money for a hotel room.  Around the same time that Emily and I where chillin the entire time she was in California, Jane contacted me asking if I would like to join her and he...

Last weekend, I have decided to begin geocaching again, as a stress releaver from homework, school, and work; and that every Sunday I would go geocaching unless I have an event or meeting or weather didn't premit it.  Today, Rebekah was bored, and wanted to chill, so I took her on her first geocaching adventure with me throughout highland.  We found our first geocache no problem.  Our second cache of the day, we weren't so lucky.      I thought the cache was hidden at the AAA in Redlands, so I parked my car over there.  The coordinates kepts us going to the hotel parking lot next door.  We ended up finding the cache in the base of a light pole ( a typical location for a cache to be hidden) I took the log out of the cache, and placed the cache and the log on the wall near the dumpster.  The good thing was noone was around so we where safe to grab the cache, except there where video cameras.  As I was about to sign my username on the log,...