Visual Trademark - A Blog By CJ Mills

A friend at work sent me this story…you can’t make this stuff up people!!!

PANAMA CITY, FLA. — A former Hooters waitress here settled her lawsuit against franchisee Gulf Coast Wings Inc. over its alleged deception in promising a new Toyota as a sales prize but instead rewarding her with a new “toy Yoda” doll.
Ex-server Jodee [...]

1) iTunes Audiobook - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.  I wish iTunes offered free audiobooks all the time (Thanks to Brad for finding that one!).

2) Wordle - A Picture’s worth a thousand words.  “Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear [...]

Many of you commented on my first run at Lightroom editing, so I thought I’d put up some more for your review.  I’ve really enjoyed adding some “life” to older photos lately.  To give you an idea of the difference after editing, take a look at #2 in its original form.

Which one is your favorite [...]

(photo from here)
If you could be anywhere RIGHT NOW, where would you want to be?  Me?  I want to be sitting in the house above with my wife….you know, a short break from the kids…..

I think I have maybe one photo with Jadyn when she was a baby. This time around, I’m forcing Andrea to take photos of her favorite boys together, even if it means directing her the entire way! My wife is amazingly creative when it comes to our home, but she leaves the creative [...]

Andrea and I went out on a date, with no kids, for the first time since Asher came home (picture from above is NOT from our date…*sigh*…).  It was nice to get out with my beautiful bride and spend some time alone.  We are weird in that we do most of our talking in the [...]

I know my blog has become a photo-blog recently, but that happens when you have three key ingredients:

Great outdoor lighting - our house is amazing in that the windows are huge and the sun is always shining in. Creates great lighting for indoor shots as well as outdoor shots!
Warm weather to get outside and [...]

I came across the song Healer on a Planetshakers album shortly after we made it home from Charleston.  I didn’t know the back story, or that it was going to be on Hillsong’s new album.  Check out the video below which goes into detail about how the song came to be:

There are a few names you see me “drop” here that I am sure are beginning to look familiar.  Brody, is one of them.  He has a series called LinkLoved where you you “celebrate those that are sending the most people to our blogs.”  Here are my top 5 this past month:
1) Ragamuffinsoul.com - I [...]