Pouring Concrete

Below if a picture of a concrete pumper truck filling the foundation walls with concrete. You will also notice the person chopped in half [my father] an artifact of movement with a photomerge.

Foundation Rising out of the Ground

Stockbridge Trails - Building #1

This is the beginning of excavation for building #1. Just sent out half of the bid requests tonight. We are pouring footings this week! New photos to come this weekend.

I plan to use these photos and building plans and elevations to create a book of this development project.

Stockbridge Trails - 86 Apartment Developemnt

This is the site of our 3 building, 86 apartment development located on the east side of Madison. This photo is a compilation of many photos to create a 360 degree panoramic of the site.

Dad & the Boys

Grandma's Birthday

My Grandma's birthday with all her grandchildren and great grand children.

The Lombardi Trophy

A couple pictures from the Badger Basketball Game vs Penn State - February 20, 2011
I got to hold the Lombardi Trophy!!!

Go Pack Go

The Capitol in Madison, WI
Lit up green and gold for the Packers!

Mug Design

This is a mug template I designed for a co-workers wedding that is taking place in Mexico. He had a brilliant idea to add the cloud in the middle with not text to allow his guests to add their names to the mug.

FMI - Downtown Properties

A quick overview of the properties that we manage Downtown Madison, WI. Feel free to contact us at info@rentfmi.com.
Visit us on the web: rentfmi.com

Website Update

The first change you will notice when you hit the landing page is the new logo. A yellow crescent was added to the logo to resemble the yellow oval real estate signs. Also the slogan was added "Your Home, Our Passion" - courtesy of Matt Meske.

The second thing to notice is the new Find a Property feature. This boasts a much more simplistic way to find your next home. Start by selecting the cities that work for you, then unit style you are looking for, and we'll take care of the rest.

What is the most annoying thing you run across on a website? Have you ever wanted to contact someone, clicked the link of their email address to have Mail, Entourage, or Outlook open? Well you do not have to worry about this happening on rentfmi.com, our web refresh boasts online web inquiry submission. Wondering how it works? Feel free to give it a try. 

The Forward Management, Inc creative staff is continually looking for ways to make the website better, keep checking back to see the latest ideas in action. We have a couple other ideas in the works for later this fall... Thanks to Drew with LiteWired Solutions for making our ideas reality - once again.

Halloween - Photoshop

I took one of the photos and cropped out the background, including my mothers arm hold up Tigger.

I used gradients for the background. I am not overly impressed with the background.

Hopefully over time I will improve on my background creation skills. 

Halloween

My two nephews all dressed up for Halloween!

Capitol - Photoshop

I used this photo I took back in early September for multi-raw processing in Photoshop. By using multi-raw processing I was able to make everything but the capitol brighter. This photo did not turn out too well, as you can see the graininess in the photo where I really increased the brightness. One thing I really like about this photo is that you can clearly see the light beams of the spot lights that are lighting up the capitol. Below is the photo with unmodified exposure. 

Wine Racks

For a little Sunday project, I installed four wine racks. This will come in handy when my wine is done fermenting and is bottled. 

Before racks are mounted

Mounted. I took me a lot more time planning the install to make sure
all of the spacing was correct than it actually took to put the racks on the wall.

The rack looks a little empty right now, but will be bottling 30 bottles in the next couple weeks.
And then bottling 30 more bottles in five to six weeks.

A close-up of the wine rack, one side has larger swoops to hold the base of the bottle.
The other has smaller swoops to hold the neck.

A view looking down the wine racks.