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  • MEETING WITH THE CONTRACTORS ON THE UNNAMED FONG RANCH It is so weird to have a house with a parking lot. It is also weird to think this is my eleventh home. Someone asked me if I freak out having to pay all of thes…

  • CONGRATULATIONS LIZ, YOU ARE DOING IT!!! Liz came to my Nashville seminar, and obviously she left that room and hit the bricks running! It appears she did all of the homework items and QUICKLY put my method into place i…

  • THE NAME OF OUR RANCH WAS TWIN CREEK, BUT I HAVE TO RENAME IT The Ranch is on a creek called "Twin Creek", so the ranch was called "Twin Creek Ranch". But it became a famous ranch and the previous owner moved to Vern…

  • GEOTHERMAL HEATING AND COOLING, WHAT A GREAT IDEA! Today we went to the Ranch to meet with the construction people, and go through the plans we have for rebuilding it. Thank goodness not much work has been done before w…

  • OH NO, THIS MAKES ME FEEL SAD... Thank goodness my dad was such a pain bugging me to always save my money. It sounded so boring. Let it sit there? Why? I want to buy that shiny thing over there, and I have the money!…

  • SO NICE TO BE BACK HOME TO CANADA! We are back home in Kelowna and it is sooooo nice to be here. We are still catching up on sleep - I slept pretty much all afternoon. We are staying at Discovery Bay and the first thin…

  • SNEAK PREVIEW OF THE TOUR DVD I just got the time-code roughs of the DVD for the upcoming seminar video. It's hilarious. That crane was so hard to get used to! CLICK BELOW!

  • ENTERPRISING!!! THESE WILL BE ON THE CART IN EARLY MARCH FOR $49, OR GET IT ON EBAY AND PAY A HECK OF A PREMIUM... LOL Here's what it says on ebay: "Gary is not going to start selling these until sometime in March. I…

  • EMAIL AND LIGHTSPHERE ANNOUNCEMENT I'm sorry I just can't keep up with the e-mails as much as I would like. So please don't be offended if you get my autoresponder. I'm buried in e-mails so if I can't respond, I'm sorr…

  • ABOUT YESTERDAY... We spent the day with my uncle and aunt, and we visited my 98 year old grandmother (we live a long time in my family). It was so weird though because my granny didn't remember me. For a moment I was…

  • THIS IS SO FREAKING HILARIOUS! CLICK HERE! thanks Kristen! My stomach hurts!

  • MEET THE FONGERS Actually it's the Shings, my dad's sister's family. I only have one uncle and aunt and 3 cousins, so we're really close. But I'm awful I hadn't realized it had been 8 years since I saw them last! Meli…

  • THIRST RELIEF INTERNATIONAL David Jay is such an awesome guy who I admire a lot. He has exceptional talent, drive and merchandising skill and everyone will agree he is the nicest guy. He's not only a great photographer…

  • WELL THE TOUR HAS COMPLETED... CLOSING ESSAY I started a campaign to create this elite group of wedding photographers that would redirect their focus back to the album, just as I did 23 years ago. I did this because par…

  • I HAD SO MUCH FUN IN SALT LAKE CITY I cannot believe I said "saltlakeshittyshowcase". I mean what a tongue twister. Wasn't it hilarious when I called that page "first nephi?" I forgot how much I knew about the Mormon…

  • THANK YOU DENVER! We are off to Salt Lake City this morning! It was such a pleasure seeing so many of you from my Digital Intensive workshops. I guess there were a lot of Denver locals because I remember Katie Van Bure…

  • THREE WEEKS ON AN AIRPLANE AND NO COLD!!! I always catch colds which turn into bronchitis because of flying so much. So I've always loaded up on things like Zicam, Airborne, etc and I'd still catch stuff. I mean those…

  • HI FROM DENVER! We had a nice flight from SF and we're just going to chill. We are both SO tired. Seriously we didn't leave the hotel in SF the whole stay. We would wake up and nap. But I feel well rested up and exc…

  • UP DOWN UP DOWN I get excited, then I get nervous. It's like an emotional roller-coaster. Here's why: on the positive side I am just so crazy about this idea of all of it. I love horses but since all I did was trail…

  • I AM SO SORRY I AM NEGLECTING EMAILS I can't seem to get on top of this. I want to answer your emails and it bums me out because I read these emails and I want to get to them but then when I get it caught up the next da…

  • CAN ANYBODY READ THIS? I CAN'T Alta Vista has a translation thing where you can translate an entire web page. Since I am in San Francisco and since there are so many chinese here, well, as they say in Rome do as the Ro…

  • BREAKFAST WITH KINCAID! CLICK HERE FOR IMAGES Today we had breakfast with Kincaid (and his son Curren), Keats and Becker. Kincaid and I go way back. I hired him to work at Pictage for color correction, and I was so bu…

  • VERIZON WIRELESS WIFI IS AWESOME - HISPEED ANYWHERE! NO HOTSPOT NEEDED! Nicole put this photo on her BLOG and it's hilarious. Pictured is us at a gate checking emails. Now the cool thing is, we use Verizon's National…

  • HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM XANGA Hey I got this email and I thought I'd tell you all how to unsubscribe if you want from Xanga broadcasts. Xanga will email you IF you subscribe, and this person below forgot that he did it.…

  • MELLOW DAY IN SAN FRANCISCO We are having a room service day here at the W in San Francisco. Becker and Keats are in the same hotel but Mel and I are like so lazy. We'll wake up just to fall asleep again. I am complet…

  • ONE STEP AHEAD SAN FRANCISCO! YOU WERE SUCH A GREAT CROWD! CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS You probably are starting to think, these podium photos that he takes every night while the audience comes into the room all look the sam…

  • ERIC MEOLA When I started photography I had my heroes and one of the people I was most in awe of is Eric Meola. He is incredible. He photographed Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" album cover and if you haven't seen hi…

  • HOMETOWN SEMINAR - THANK YOU L.A. WE ARE OFF TO SAN FRANCISCO It was the most awesome evening. Due to many, many requests from people who were too far away from any of my 14 cities to attend in person, we brought ou…

  • HEY LOS ANGELES~! We sold out of the original facility at the Marina City Club - so we moved across the street to a larger location. So if you want to walkup, you can... it's $129 at the door. If you pre-registered, it…

  • BYE DALLAS AND THANK YOU! Hey Dallas thank you for the warm reception! It's always great to come to Texas I have so many good memories especially of Texas Schools! Anyway here are some photos of y'all from last night a…

  • HOLY SMOKES WE JUST MISSED THE STORM When I planned this tour, I was thinking - what with winter storms and having to fly city to city let's just hope we have good luck with the winter storms. Well we just finished the…

  • OH MAN FREAKING HILARIOUS So we are still in Chicago and we all went shopping on Michigan Ave here - a lot like 5th ave in NYC but cleaner. Anyway so we go into the Apple Store and they had computers set up with this ne…

  • COMPLICATED RANCH DEAL AS IS THE CASE WITH ALL FORECLOSURES Closing date is March 30th. In Canada we time closings very quickly, none of this 90 day escrow stuff around here. Anyway, I just heard from my Real Estate ag…

  • LAST TIME RABBIT WAS HERE IN CHICAGO... We weren't dating yet, but we were constantly talking on the phone. We honestly talked on the phone for an average of 4-6 hours per day for about a year before we started dating.…

  • I AM SO HAPPY CLICK HERE FOR IMAGES I'm here in Chicago for the weekend with my four most favorite people in the world, Jess and Mark Strickland and Nicole. We are having so much fun. We've taken over the W Hotel here…

  • I HELD THE WICKET So last night, Vincent Soo comes up to me and says, "here" and it's a teddy bear. Well with so many new friends you know I get a lot of strange requests since it's not all the time I take my traveling…

  • WEEK TWO IS OVER! THANK YOU CHICAGO! What an awesome, enthusiastic crowd! It was super fun because Jessica Strickland was in the audience, and she is pretty much the reason for the whole tour (as you know, if you've be…

  • YAY NICOLE HAS A BLOG! Nicole is the sweetest airhead in the world. CLICK HERE FOR HER BLOG!

  • I FELT LIKE I WAS AT PRICE IS RIGHT! We had so much fun here in St Louis, soon as I got in the room, there was this group in the front row with T-shirts that said, "Fong Dongs Rock!" I was like for a second thinking - d…

  • LIGHTSPHERE INVENTORY IS IN STOCK! we got some from the factory so go back in and order! Sorry about the sellout situation!

  • NASHVILLE, TN THANK YOU FOR THE WARM WELCOME! Having Wayne Byrne (your regional Art Leather representative) doing registration for me takes me back about 21 years from when he first hosted me on my first national tour, a…

  • FREAKING AWESOME LETTER FROM MATT RAMOS Matt - I'm hoping that everybody who went to the seminar does exactly what you're doing! It's fun isn't it???

  • LIGHTSPHERE SELLOUT SITUATION I am sorry so sorry but the P1 and P4 Lightsphere Internal Dome systems are COMPLETELY sold out in our warehouse. We are working very hard to resupply it and fill our UK/EU distribution ce…

  • COLUMBUS OHIO THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH What a beautiful Hotel, and what a really warm and excited crowd. It was great seeing so many of my friends in the audience and thanks for being in my videotapes which I'll upload lat…

  • JASON GROUPP - WOW INCREDIBLE! Hi Gary, I took your class in NYC with Frank DiMeo and Robert Kraussner and all i have to say is Thanks! I was happy to find that my pricing plan was very similar to yours, but a few of y…

  • KIMBERLY BROOKE - WHAT A GREAT LETTER TO SUM IT UP! Kimberly has been a student of mine for digital intensive and she completely was changed afterwards. So it was great to see her excitement again but boy this cool lett…

  • WOW FRANK THANK YOU FOR THE FOLLOWING REVIEW ON OSP! click here to see frank's website!

  • NEW SLIDESHOW OF TWIN CREEK RANCH The listing agent, Lisa Hilts, just sent over some images of the house and barn taken last year before all of the water damage destroyed the house. She has been super great and very…

  • MY FRIENDS ARE SO STRANGE This morning we woke up in NYC and now we are in Columbus, OH. It was so funny because when we landed, Nicole says to us, "why do they call it Columbus? Is this where Christopher Columbus firs…

  • LOS ANGELES SEMINAR MOVED TO A NEW LOCATION We had an early sellout at the Los Angeles Tour stop. So we were like, ok well how do we tell everybody that you can't walk up? So we moved across the street and 1 block west…

  • RANDI'S FLOWER BOOK On this tour we have been showing some examples of the newest Cornerstone Fine Art Albums, and my super talented graphic artist submitted a knockout Flower book that everybody fell in love with.I was…

  • FIRST WEEK IS DONE! YAY! New York is always a very vocal crowd! More questions than any other city but really I could see the deep interest as I was explaining how to do my method. I have spoken in this room many many…

  • HOLY SMOKES WOW (seminar announcement) OK maybe it's the terrific reviews on the photo forums (thank you!), that are causing our signups for the remaining cities to go nuts! So I have an announcement - the Los Angeles s…

  • ATLANTA GROUP SHOT Kristen just emailed me this shot from Atlanta. I honestly don't remember being in Atlanta LOL because things are such a jumble in my head. Pictured here are me, Nic and Mel, and it's so weird that t…

  • THANK YOU BOSTON! Wow this was a COOL evening! It was so heartwarming seeing some of my friends who have been coming to my seminars for a good 10-20 years! I think what was so great seeing how some of you came to my fi…