OFFICIAL PIGSKIN

If you’ve seen my website or have been a recent client of mine, you may have noticed my fondness for squares.  Most of my photos, by design, end up being cropped into squares.  The human eye is accustomed to seeing the standard 4×6, 5×7, and 8×10 photo sizes every day.  When a photo is cropped into a square, in my opinion, it immediately catches the eye of the viewer, whether they realize it or not.  Some clients have said their photos look more unique, important, and special cropped in squares.  All of my fully-edited proofs in my wedding proof books, one of my most popular items, are 5×5’s.  I want my clients and viewers of my work to feel like the photos are different, in a good way.  If cropping in squares is one way to improve their opinion of the photos, then I’m all for it.

My affinity for squares, however,  ends there.  I don’t go around collecting things just because they are square.  My DVR doesn’t record Hollywood Squares (is that still on?).  Outside of photography, squares meant nothing to me, until a few weeks ago…..

Super Bowl Sunday, 2010. At a party at the Guse’s house, like millions of others around the world, I randomly pick a few squares on a piece of posterboard that will later determine the winners of many wonderful prizes.  Little did I know that the most prestigious prize would fall into my lap at the end of the night.  Yes, my square ended up being the one that allowed me to take home the fine hunk of swine displayed below.  The OFFICIAL PIGSKIN of the Guse Super Bowl Party.  Each year the winning couple has their name, along with the year and score of the game, branded on the pig.  It is my honor and duty to keep this big pig until the next Super Bowl party, at which it must be returned.  But as long as I am in possession of the O.P., I’m thinking about taking it with me on a few adventures.  Keep checking (better yet, subscribe to) the ol’ blog to see where the pig goes next.