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UPDATED 6-3-09

Wednesday June 3rd: You'll find the latest photos uploaded to photobucket here: AlumniBandPhotlos

Sunday 5/31; Band Alums, you are next. As soon as possible, I'll get some photos of you here and elsewhere.

Saturday 5/30 just uploaded 110 photos of the AAMB practice prior to the Indy 500 Parade. You'll find them here: 2009 Indy500 Parade Practice

Friday 5/29: A few thoughts:

AAMB Band Members: I have over 2000 photos of the weekend. Please be patient and they will all be posted here, or on photobucket, over the next couple of weeks or so. There are always some days that I'll be traveling to Los Angeles and will not be able to do so.

Alumni Band: As well, I have many, many of you guys that will be posted here, or else you'll find a link to photobucket where you'll find the photos. Unless anyone is an Microsoft expressions web expert, I'm still clueless as to how to upload a photo album using this software, especially with thumbnails, as you could do with Microsoft FrontPage.

ANY MICROSOFT EXPRESSIONS WEB EXPERTS OUT THERE? If so, you can email me your thoughts to purduebandfan@yahoo.com Eventually I'll be changing to Dreamweaver anyway.

Here are some pretty cool photos of the race, including one of the band that a photographer took: Indy500Photos

Thursday 5/29: I just uploaded a bunch (250) photos to photobucket of the practice held Saturday before the parade. I have more, but system and time constraints limited me to 250. You will find them here: 2009 Indy 500 Practice Photos at Butler University

Band Alums: I'll be getting to your photos very soon.

Here are a few more from my files:

Wednesday 5/27: I'm back in California, and later today, I'll be uploading more photos here and to photobucket. As always, I'll post a link here to where those photos are located on that site. I'm hoping there are people out there still coming here from time to time. And, if there are band alums poking there heads in here, I've got many of you as well that I'll get to today and the rest of this week and next.

At the race, I ran into several members of our Army (I served in the Infantry from 1966-1968 including ten months in VietNam) and had the chance to take their photo next to the National Guard race car. Here are some. If any of you guys in the photos are looking around here, I've got more. Give me time please. As a fitting tribute to Memorial Day, I thought I would get these posted ASAP.

March 3, 2009

Well, by now if you're a regular visitor here, you must be wondering where I've been. Initial plans to post the top photos for 2008 were too aggressive given what was going on in my personal life at the time. Now that all of that is past, I can once again go through last years photos and start posting the best here.

But wait, there is more news. For years, some of you have asked if you could purchase some/all of the many thousands of photos I take of the AAMB each season. That hasn't been practical for me, given the number of members of the band, as well as their families. And since I have so very many photos it requires a DVD, and even then, about 7 DVD's are necessary to include all of the photos. But, I have located an individual, a single mom, who has the time and computer equipment to do so, as long as she receives some nominal compensation for her efforts, something approaching minimum wage after all costs are factored in (the DVD, stamps, labels, envelopes, post office box, software, and labor, etc.). I figure those costs to be $20 per DVD, which would include just short of 2000 photos. This would include approximately two games and or several practices and/or band camp. The DVD will include high resolution photos, suitable for printing purposes, as well as small resolution for email, etc. Many of the photos have not been posted on photobucket. Or, you can order the entire 2008 season, which includes the China practices, for $100, which includes over 13,000 photos. I will also offer a DVD of the photos taken on the China trip.

Now, please understand. I derive NO compensation for this effort, and am indifferent as to whether you choose to order photos, or not. This is simply a service in response to requests I've had in the past. All checks will be made out to Renee, who will make the DVD's for you.

So, if you are interested, you can send an email to Renee@purduebandfan.com and she will send you an order form (I'm in the process of attempting to include that form here) Each DVD is $20. and on the order form you can select which game/practices you would like. Or, you can order the entire season for $100, which is 7 or 8 DVD's and over 13,000 photos.

Here is the first of what I think were the best of 2008:

OK, I admit. I can't do this. I went through the band camp photos and found 87 that I liked. The above five were just the first batch. So, lets just call this the best of 2008, and not the top 100. BUT, I am going to try and determine which are the top 10! Got a few in mind already. Now, the photos I'll be posting here will be selected at random. They may or not be balanced and fair between sections, gender, auxiliary, or any other criteria you can think of. I just don't have the time to do that.

But, I will post five new photos here almost everyday, and eventually move them to www.photobucket.com. AND, most of these photos will have never before been published either here or on photobucket. I'm pretty sure I can tell that that is the case.

So, hope you enjoy. And, furthermore, I hope someone is out there still after I flaked for the past two plus months and didn't update the site. Here you go with five more (all from band camp):

Here are five more that I like from band camp: (p.s. a reminder, the order of these photos more or less in the same order that I took them, therefore, you might see several of one section for a few days, then of another section later. In this case, the auxiliaries. And, again, most if not all of these have never before been published.