Greg's First Tatoo

The Outline. We all chipped in on the final design. He knew he wanted his last name, but needed help on font and what else to add for style. We all decided the hot chick from the truck mud flaps was perfect for our little womanizer! ;P

Let the pain begin!

I really like this Tattoo shop, Skin Art on Cambridge ST. in Cambridge. Clean, Friendly.....It only took 30mins for the inking and the artist has 10 years of experience. Greg has now joined the rest of the family, as we all have body art and love it!

Mancho, Mancho Man!

Merhaba...Finally!

Finally, I have images from our 2005 trip to Turkey on the website Gallery Journey!

From over 1300 images down to 96. I do still have a few roles of film to scan that somehow got over looked and I do think there is a few images from these roles I will add online, but the largest part is done.

It's very exciting to think we just have to get Belize/Guatemala up and we will be up to date on our foreign travels.

Then stay tuned to see where we go next! We hear Egypt calling our names......

We do have alot of work to do to get our travels within the USA up to date. We have been to several places including Vegas & the Grand Canyon, so stay tuned for that as well and that will probable be (hopefully if all goes well) up before our next foreign travels.

I am very excited for our good friend Jim Long, he is on a train ride across America and back! Making several stops along the way in different cities and keeping us up to date on his travels via local wifi, check out his blog: http://inflightshutdown.blogspot.com/
Click on the link to the right: Flickr Map of photos and watch him cross the country.

This is so cool, I love being able to share in his adventure. I hope the next time Baha and I travel we can find a way to do the same thing!

Fun with Photos! Yippie!

Cheers,
Mel

Good Times... Good Times

You are looking at the old and the new crew of Boston Photo Imaging. My bro Greg Bouyacasha was also with us and would have been in the photos, but had to jet early to care for his sick wife. It's times like these you feel the impact of friendship and respect for one to another. Hanging out with good people, eating, drinking and having a great conversation is what life is all about. Work friends or not; they can make a huge impact in your life and change the way you think. These are the people you appreciate and cherish for the rest of your life.
They see the ups and downs you go through in life and they are there to support you and lift your spirits. So we gathered last night in Jacob Wirth to lift my spirits and wish me good luck starting my journey to find a better job.

bahadir

ps: I also thank my beautiful wife for taking these pictures.

It's Freakin' Nasty Out!

This is what it looks like from our window. It's nasty, frozen slush, windy, cold out there, terrorizing the city. My wife called 4 or 5 different cab companies but the wait was 45 min.+, so poor girl had to walk all the way to work. I hope she did fine. We don't have a car and I can't really give her a ride on my scooter, sorry babe! :( But she is a tough chick, I know she will push through.

I am so glad I am not out there today. It's my first day at home, kinda weird but cool. I think I will enjoy looking for my future today; from the house... First I will visualize it in my head, see it just the way I want it to be and start to make it happen. I believe it will happen pretty soon. Yes, positive thinking, mmmmkey!

baha

So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye...

Valentines day was my last day in Boston Photo Imaging. It was an emotional day for me, but I am exited about what's to come. It was hard to let go, the most difficult part was saying goodbye to my good friends, I have spent over 5 1/2 years there.

We been through thick and thin together, but it's time for me to split and let the young ones get a little taste of the action.;) It's time for me to start my new adventure and begin tasting new fruits of the future. This will be a new experience for me and I am ready!
Special shout out to my best buddies Keith, Greg and Chief! Yuz guyz are da men, no doubt!

baha

Removing Watermarks

After work on friday, I spent the rest of my day removing the BMK watermark from our photographs in Gallery Journey, and Portraits. I was informed by Chief and the rest of our friends and family, that the watermark was distracting from our photos. OK! It's done now and I like it better too. ;)
Thank you for the tip, and keep it coming I say.

baha

ps: Thank you Keith for your lovely e-mail with your chimp friend. I got the message!

Please tell me!

So I just went to the ladies room at work and saw that I had mascara smudged under my eyes! I looked like I had a black eye.

Walking to work my eyes tear from the cold so, my makeup must have run, no biggy, but NO ONE TOLD ME!

It was 11am before I noticed and I must have spoken to more than a dozen people between 9-11am and not one person felt they needed to mention I looked like a prize champion! Nice.

So to all you who read this, please, PLEASE if I have smudged makeup, a bogger, tp on my shoe or whatever. TELL ME! I will thank you for it and will do the same for you.

F'in COLD!

It's very sad, but I broke down and took a cab to work today. I just wasn't up for freezen my nukies off today. Haven't decided on how to get home yet, but will probable tough it out and walk. 10 degrees is one thing, but when you add wind chill on top you are talking negatives and that just is not fun when you have a 1.25mile walk to work. Long johns only help so much.

So we made head way on Turkey 05 images. Got Baha's over 1100 images down to just over 100, but still have to get it down to 99, that's all the website will allow. Plus it makes for a more solid body of work, makes sure you cut it down to only the real winners.

Had an excellent weekend with a long over due visit with Kirsten and Graham on Friday night, lots of web accomplishments on Sat. & then an always enjoyable visit with my bros & Jim on Sun.

Anyways, everyone try and keep warm and avoid going out side as much as possible. I read that Phil the Groundhog didn't see his shadow, so spring should come early this year...Global Warming and El Nino, might be of some help with that, but Thanks Phil!

Shout Out!

Happy Birthday wishes to Aylin! Hope it's a wonderful day for a special lady.
baha & mel

And the Progress Continues!

So another day, another accomplishment.

Not only did I write a description of each day in Belize in your Travel Journal blog, Baha got our own .mac account and transfered all the pages and now we have completely finished Inhouse Design, text included.

Next up Turkey 05. Baha has over 1100 images to edit and I have over 1300! Let the party begin.

Jim and my bro Andy are coming over today so we will see how far we get.

Seems I messed up and either didn't scan or misplaced the cds of my 6 rolls of film I shot in Turkey, not that I need more images to edit, but hey maybe the prize winner is in that bunch. So, now I also need to do some scanning, but at least it's only 6 rolls. Very douchey of me.

Anywho, need to get to work so..

Cheers for now.
Mel

Migration

Till today I was testing our website on a .mac account my sister has. Since I enjoyed everything I created so far, we decided to have our own .mac account and keep adding more sites to Apple. I transferred everything to our new account and fixed all links. It's up now!

Thank you very much for letting us test our website on your space. :)

bahadir

As Jim would say "Web a Poppin"

So finally and I mean finally, we are making some serious progress on the BMK website, it only took 2-3 years, but hey who's counting.

Anyways, within the last 2 weeks we (mostly Baha) have put up several countries (England, Italy, Holland, Japan, Turkey, Canada) in your Gallery Journey portfolios; created two Blogs, BMK Journal (where you are now) and BMK Travel Journal Blog (see links 2 bmk); completed Portrait photography; completed In-House Design and added several pages to Archive.

Man it's amazing what you can accomplish if you put your mind to it and work together. We are both totally giggling with excitement. Woo who!

Our current plan is to post a trip a night, but we are up to the Mega Trip, Turkey 05, were we photographed out brains out and have a ridiculous amount of images to edit through so that might push our deadline out a couple days, but we will still be working. My ultimate goal is to be up to date by the end of February. For USA we will be linking to a separate page that shows the map of the USA and then you will select a state and then a city trip within the state so that might take some time setting all that up too, but I think we will get there.

The Archive is going to have several more pages one of which will be Family & Friends photos where family and friends can download images they choose to their computer and then get prints made.

Being colder than a witches tit outside really helps with wanting to stay inside and do work. Not to mention the computer room is the warmest room in the apt. See everything is saying doooo wooorrrkk... Netflix is even pilling up. The craziness of it all....

So blogging, new thing for me. Jim really shed the light on it for us and made it seem a fun way to communicate (see Inflight Shutdown blog) with everyone, keep folks up to date. But, I have to admit I am a bit frightened of the commitment of having to write daily so, I am going to say up front I'm not committing to that. But I am committed to writing as often as I can, so make sure and check back for my next 2¢.

Cheers yo! Word!
Mel

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