THE MEAT
Here is a way to fix a great meal. For many years on Christmas Day our family would share family time with the Kent family in Tarboro. Jesse Kent would fix a standing roast covered in rocky salt and just a little Lea & Perrins for taste. This is the best ever!
A couple of days ago Amy purchased a eye round roast.When we were coming home today from Greenville she said it had to be fixed tonight or it would go bad. Let's rock salt it. It was awesome. The eye round is not as tender as a standing rib roast but it still had the flavor. Jessie's secret cooking tie is 12min a lb. A 4lb pound roast would cook about 45min at 500 degrees. When it's done you have to take it outside and crack it with a hammer to "release the meat". That doesn't sound good. I am looking forward to this weeks lunch. Try it.

The Fair

We made it. Another hard working day at the NC State Fair. We got together with our friends Dean & Tracy Nance from Greenville SC around 3:pm. We were only there for three hours but it felt like a whole day.My good friend and awesome photographer from Raleigh Cindy Smith gave us her cow pass. With this pass we can drive in and park in the animal area for free. Like having a back stage pass.
I remember I said a long time ago never go on a Saturday. Now I know why. It was tight. I was able to still do a Cattleman's Rib Eye Sandwich, A London Broil Sandwich, A Funnel Cake, Share some Chips and two corn on the cobbs from Wild Bill's. The best corn on the planet. I even stood in line for a pizza but gave up. It was a full evening in many ways. To top it off Amy wanted a drink on the way home so I did a hamburger for the road. I am done! I should keep a set of paddles for my chest in the car.CLEAR! We had fun and it's a once a year stuff fest.

Tarboro Website

I want to give you a chance to check out the new Tarboro NC website. I did a bunch of images for the site and it was producted by

Latham Jenkins // President
Circumerro Media
t. 307-733-8319 | c. 307-690-1642
http://www.circumerro.com

It should put us on the world wide map.

Newsletter

We just sent out our fall newsletter and I have posted a sample. You may not be able to read it but if you did not receive it let us send you one. In it we have information about our Christmas Special starting Sunday November 16th and our outdoor portraits, in home sessions and a few examples on our designer Christmas cards. How about $50 toward a location portrait session? Its in there.
You may want to take advantage of the contest we have on the back. Just send in your email address to our website and have a chance to win a $75 gift certificate to On The Square in Tarboro. You can go ahead and jump in.Go to our website and select the contact us page. Enter your information and write " list" on the page. I am going to give it away next week.

Rocky Mount Academy Seniors

Once again we picked the perfect day for working with the senior class of RMA. I always end with the group pose and has some fun getting them close together. Thanks to Rose Hill for offering us a beautiful location for this years seniors.To view some of the other groups visit our website at www.billgoode.com and select portrait proofing. The password is seniorgroups in small case letters.

Beach Wedding

I enjoyed myself Saturday following Brittany around getting in her way as second shooter during a beach wedding for Ian's friends Ryan & Allison. I had a family beach session at 5:30 pm but had enough time to show up and make Britt nervous.

I was was having a good time just shooting a little from the outside but mostly playing with my video camera. I want to make a studio marketing video for Brittany and myself and I thought this was perfect timing since I was on the coast anyway for another reason. It was a beautiful wedding. The day could not have been any better. Brittany loves this kind of beach wedding since her and Nick were married about a year ago on the beach. More and more people are searching interesting locations now to celebrate their wedding and the Crystal Coast is one of the most popular area in NC.

Big Cake

I have enjoyed playing around with my new phone and the photo features it has. Nothing I love better then a new toy. I am now sending images back and forth to the kids whenever I can so last Friday night we had a few friends at the house. Amy went crazy and used our special mixer my sister gave us for the first time. The cake was "big" is all I can say. I had to shoot a pictures and send it to Ian since he loves big cake.



Ian and Lori sent me back a pic of them getting ready to cook a big meal all the way in San Francisco. The digital world does help the miles get a little closer.

Early Morning

The last few times we were on the coast I have been wanting to get up early and do some sunrise images. This morning Howard and The Worm had the early morning call and had me up at 5:30.





These images are from this morning.

Beach Portrait

The real reason for going to the coast this weekend was to capture what may be my last beach session of the season. I would love to do all the beach sessions in the fall because the sun is lower in the sky and the light is just beautiful. This was an awesome session and the light was perfect.

Great Weekend

I was looking forward to this weekend because It was going to be a dry run for the State Fair. Yes I am talking about Funnel Cake. Nothing like it and this weekend at the Crystal Coast Seafood Fest I was going to jump in. Of course rule number one. Never put on a black shirt when you are planing to eat funnel cake so I was ok.