Taylor Greenwood Photography

To all of my photography friends out there, I just want to tell you that Photobiz.com is the place to look for all of your web-site building needs. After graduating school, yes I had a basic understanding of HTML and could build a site for myself if needed. However, after graduation, I found myself very busy with no time to work on a decent looking website.

Max Cohen turned me on to photobiz.com. You can check out Max's site at http://cohenstudios.com/. When I was searching for companies who made websites specifically for photographers, I started looking at live-books. Nice websites...they get the job done...but they're expensive. My final decision came down to bludomain or photobiz.com. Bludomain looked good, but to my understanding you could buy just one template and be stuck with that template unless you wanted to buy a different one. At photobiz.com after paying the $125 one time fee and $15/mo. you have access to any template you want whenever you want. You can change the look of your website anytime.

Any who... I love photobiz. They're customer service is incredible. Photobiz allows me to have an online store with prints for sale by credit card. It's easy to upload images, and change the site around. Very user friendly. Very professional. BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE without spending too much money!

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All the best my friends. Have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!

Melissa and I would like to introduce to everyone, Ian Bauer! Ian Bauer everyone! **aplause** Right... Melissa did a shoot with Ian just before making a trip to Chicago for some musical exploration of his. He again, is someone I went to school with. Elementary school actually. I can remember sitting on the school bus. Him sharing Elvis with me and me sharing Beach Boys with him. ON CASSETTE WALKMEN! Any who, I am inspired by Ian's music and ambitions. He is an active blogger, and radio talk-show host, spreading good word of faith and a bunch of other stuff that is good. We are proud to have Ian as our second Featured Artist!

Ian's Website: www.myspace.com/bigfatheartmusic

What is it that really got you into music?
A friend in elementry school played piano really well and I remember asking him to teach me something. He taught me a song along the lines of Mary Had a Little Lamb and after that piano came very naturually. My dream of being a professional musician begain when I started to attend concerts. I would watch bands move people with their music and have such great influence on their fans. I want that.

Hopefully every artist has dreams of doing something big with their art. I dont think my music will ever change the world but I hope it does to people what other's music has done for me. I hope that the songs I write are relateable and that listeners can feel like someone else knows whatever their going through. Also, there's this thing most people do when they hear a really good jam, which is squint their eyes and bob their head. I'd love if my playing did that to people.Great question! I've had the oppurtunity to play with so many different groups and artists from progressive rock to church praise music. I am definietly more of a session musician than a
songwriter but, when I do get to writing I enjoy the blues/funk genre. Recently, some of my songs seem to have less of a funk influence and more of an alternative pop sound. Is that a bad thing?I went to Chicago to play guitar for a friend of mine, Judah Legge. We were a blues/soul acoustic duo. Along with many gigs in the Chicago area, we auditioned for NBC's America's Got Talent. We even got the callback for the Los Angelos taping in April.I'm not allowed to say a heck of a lot. I met lots of interesting entertainers and was put up in a really nice hotel in LA by NBC. Overall an amazing experience!

Musical inspirations?
I'm tempted to just list a bunch of artists I like but, thats not the question. Musicians or bands that actually inspire me include Paul Simon, Derek Webb, Andrew Osenga, Andrew Peterson, Raul Midon and others. Lately I've been listening to a lot of modern rock stuff like SafetySuit, The Classic Crime and even David Cook.A few years ago a low power station broadcasting out of a church basement started up. I jumped on board as soon as I heard about it. They were so eager to have people I was given my own weekly show right away. I just had fun playing music and having friends on the show. One episiode I invited my friend Tyler Bourbeau on. It went so well he became my full time co-host! It's a lot of fun and I'm gonna plug our website in 3...2...1... tylerandian.blogspot.com.Yes we did! As far as fantastic, awesome facts; I click my teeth in awkward social situations and I also speak Romanian.


Thank you for taking time to learn about Ian and his work! We are always accepting applications at info@taylorgreenwoodphotography.com

This past weekend was quite eventful. We celebrated my cousin Kerri's graduation for most of Saturday and into Sunday. Our family is full of some great people to be around.

I’ve been stating so often how excited I am to move. The excitement of starting fresh, and the excitement of doing work in and area that can actually provide. I mean...Appleton is just so much better for business, but still has some down home aspects you know?  It’s not a huggeee city.  It’s close to some nice country living, and I think it’ll just be a great place to be for a while.

On the other hand, I think of what I’ll be leaving behind. I will always love New England.  The views, the smells, the roads that are actually fun to drive on, and on that note...asphalt. They don’t have asphalt out there.  I’ll miss just the lifestyle. I’ll miss my giant maple trees that provide shade on a sunny day. I’ll miss my 4 acre backyard (you’d be lucky to find anything more than a quarter of an acre in Appleton).  I’ll miss the people here. 20 almost 21 years of growing up in the same area has allowed me to meet an incredible amount of great people. Even if it’s someone that I occasionally exchange a mere “hey, hows it going?” with. Everyone is so great here in Massachusetts.  I am excited to meet new people though.

The people I’ll miss the most are my parents.  I’m embarrassed to admit this, but when my parents come home at their usual time, I parallel my dogs behaviors for when I come home. Well, I mean, I don’t jump on them or anything, but I will go downstairs and greet them, or I will go outside and say “welcome home, how was your day”.  If my dog could talk, I think he’d say “Welcome home.” I just love them that much. I will miss casual conversations about everything.  I’ll miss that occasional “pat on the back” for a job well done. Or the pleasure of hearing the satisfaction in my dads voice when he comes home and discovers that I’ve mowed the lawn or shoveled the driveway. I’ll miss going grocery shopping with my mom. I’ll just miss them.

They’ll just be a phone call away I suppose. I can look at pictures of Massachusetts and Maine on the computer if I want to. And lord knows there’s enough cow shit in Wisconsin to remind me of what home smells like. 

I am excited to move to Wisconsin. Can’t wait. Want to leave now. I’m ready to miss my home.

Melissa and I got our business cards in the mail today! Wooot! I tried uploading a video of the rap to blogger, but blogger doesn't seem to like videos so check out my rap HERE.