recent wedding

a few from the recent wedding i shot. a very quaint, intimite ceremony.

xmas

ive always been a sucker for alternative process'.
and for as long as ive been shooting digital, ive been dying to find a way to "emulate" polaroid transfers.
ive even invested in this... stuff? that seemed promissing, only to find it was a lot of work for not nearly the results i wanted. :(

then, we come to now. i stumble upon a concept of putting images, printed with any ole printer, on tiles! tiles are a popular subject for polaroid transfers, and i think the results emulate it close enough for my satisfaction, especially considering the cost (next to nothing)

i will next experiment with other objects. but for now, you can see the xmas gifts a made for her dad and gma.

old maternity

it was almost a year ago that i did this shoot, but for being one of my first maternity shoots, i think its fairly decent.
whats more, is i was able to photograph her homebirth a couple months later (only a month after my own) thus making it extra special.

images from a shoot a few weeks ago...

poodle skirk girls

the trick or treat getup...

delay

sorry ive been "inactive" but, here i am. ive got several personal photos ill work on adding over time, this being one of my favorites. and ive got a shoot tomorrow, with a couple past, that need (will need) editing, so those will surface sooner or later.

retouch

i was finally contacted by someone on liveperson.com. they were looking for photo manipulation.
to be more specific, they wanted the girl in the lower photo in the upper photo (she was originally in a photo all her own) so i did that, as well as some basic retouch (that cant hardly be appreciated at this size)
while im pleased with it for the most part, the girl really sticks out to me, but of course i KNOW she doesnt go there.
i asked a, she said she had no idea she didnt belong, so who knows. anyways, heres the before and after.

hannah

a few of my favorites from the shoot a couple weeks ago.

random life related stuff

when the power was out, b decided we needed to build a fire for cooking. keep in mind we live in the city.
fortunately (maybe not for him) it came back on monday night, so we didnt get any parking lot campfire cooked veggies or anything, but he still insisted on making a campfire in the parking lot next to our house, the result...

they made s'mores. i kept hearing fire sirens, and i just KNEW someone called the authorities and we were going to get in deep trouble for building a camp fire in the parking lot, but they never showed up.

im digging through pictures, trying to decide on what 4 i want millers to edit and print free to show me how awesome they are, so im weeding through old stuff.

this is a (fake) ttv of andis first day of kindergarten, she tends to dress so awesome a lot of the time. her hair had the rockinest haircut ever too, and i did it. :D i think ill try to mimic it on myself. wish me luck!

a with the cousins. theyre all distanced now. i just love their expressions in this one.

featured photographer

uh oh, a post without pictures!

i am the "featured photographer" on a local "collective" that has over 200 members.

so i wanted to share... click me!

ttv

i learned a new technique, well, sorta. basically you shoot your camera, through the viewfinder of an old camera (preferably tlr) and it comes out looking a lot like this...


of course, i own not a tlr (though i did see one at the thrift store the other day that im attempted to go back and hunt for) and well, emulating in photoshop just sounds more appealing at this point in time. so, expect more images of this nature in the future, as im quite fond of the look. (i think ill also get more into emulating various other "vintage effects" if you will.

a can ride a bike!

ike remnants

we just moved to kentucky, from eastern/coastal north carolina just over a month ago, and being that its hurrican season, i regularly think/thought of what my friends and family back in nc could potentially deal with, i had no idea that wed get hit worse than them (to date, this season) but out of nowhere ike pays US a visit.

in a city of over 500k, more than 400k lost power. the following images are merely from the city block that we live on.

this is just a pretty tree. :)