To Much Going on to Post

So much has been going on that there is no time to get photos together or even decide what to write about. Next week I will have a lot to say. In the past 14 days I have had two different friends fathers pass away, photographed 3 weddings (2 out of town) , taught the July class in Alabama, dropped my son off at aviation camp, sent my daughter to FL and built my brothers web site. Tomorrow I will design a DVD for Mr Romance and put together two wedding albums. Then at 7pm I will hit the road to Huntsville for my sons graduation at Aviation Challenge on Friday at 10am. Then home with a wedding on Saturday.
So, if you are a tele-marketer, or want something from me for free or need a favor, GET TO THE BACK OF THE LINE . Because as my good friend Scott Holloway says " This ain't no $^%$*& hobby."
In the absence of photos, click on this link ('http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewalbum.html?bm=79060');and it will take you to my video sharing site. Today you can see 3 different albums that I have put together in the last few weeks. After you click on a show to view, give it about 10 seconds to start up and then click on start or loop all. I can't remember. April and Kurt is a wedding in St Simons Island. Birthday party is the job I shot in New York. Burt and Jeannie is from my friend Burt's wedding. It was a small affair but a great story. This couple was married in 1973. Divorced in 1974 and lost touch with each other. Burt's wife of 30 years Lynn, died 2 years ago. While on the Classmates.com web site Burt started looking for old friends. The rest is new history.

Mr Romance

I have to make this quick as I am out the door to a destination wedding for this weekend. I can't say where or who and will not be posting any photos from it per request from the bride and groom.
The photos that are posted are from a shoot yesterday at a winery. Girls grab some tissues, guys read on, it will work in your favor later.
This guy sent his girlfriend on an all day long scavenger hunt all over town. Everything from eating breakfast at their favorite place to digging in her backyard and dress shopping. About 10 places in all. At each place the manager or an employee would give her a clue written on a parchment paper thing that sort of looked like a treasure map. The thing she dug up in the backyard was a wooden box that was locked. She was to carry it around all day. Her goal was to find the key to the box so she could open it and see the treasure. After 10 hours of driving all over, she gets a phone call as her last clue. The caller is her Father. It says to drive to the winery and see the manager. She did and the manager gave her instructions to follow the pink ribbons along a trail threw the vineyards. My big behind was hiding in a tree in the middle of the vineyard. When she passed me, I snuck in behind her and photographed her long walk down one of the rows of grape vines. She never knew I was there. At the end of the row, up walks Mr Romance in a suit and tie. When she sees him she starts to run, so do I . When she gets to him, I started shooting as he gives her the key to the treasure. She opens the box to find a note and a hand mirror. The note says to "Look in the mirror to see the treasure" She is the "Treasure" She cries, and then he gets down on one knee and proposes and slides a rock on her finger that makes her walk like a gorilla.
Girls, blow your nose, Guys, start drawing a map. I'm gone to the Islands, be back Tuesday.

Hit Bull, Win Steak

Tonight I am in Durham , North Carolina. I have a wedding here tomorrow and the Bride and Groom threw a private party bash at the Durham Bulls game. The Richmond Braves were whipping the snot out of the Bulls when I had to leave in the 7th inning.
I went to buy a hot dog to use in a photo and my wallet was not in my pocket. I thought I had lost my wallet, so I left to start making the phone calls to the credit card company, but, it was in the rental car. So not being able to get back into the game, I came back to the hotel. The Richmond Braves were great, but not as good as my son's team the Fairview Vipers. He was playing in a State tournament in Fayetteville, Ga He hit a single, double and a triple and scored twice. They won 14-6 and made it into the third round of the playoffs. I would have loved to have been there instead of getting updates over the cell phone.

If you ever saw the movie "Bull Durham" with Kevin Costner, well this is the team he was on. In the movie there was this sign in the outfield that said " Hit Bull Win Steak, Hit Grass Win Salad" The photo at top is of me standing under the sign. The sign was moved from the old stadium that was in the movie to the beautiful new one that they play in now. If you are a hockey fan, (I know NOTHING about the game) I will bet you have never seen INSIDE the Stanley Cup. The Durham hockey team won the Stanley Cup this year and the hero of the team , the goalie, drove the cup around the warning track and threw out the first pitch. See a photo that I took of the cup from above.

This Mornings RUSH Job

At Midnight last night, Scott Holloway who is a photographer in Greenville SC calls me up and says. "Hey Scott, I shot this photo of a hotel and then I shot some photos of the fireworks on the 4th of July and I need to put them all together and I need it at 10 am." It took until 1:30 am to download the photos because of a computer problem on his end so after downloading I went to bed. I knew I could do this in about 20 minutes. At 8am I was on it and after trying to upload this monster sized file back to him for an hour it finally went threw and made the deadline for a local Greenville, SC magazine. The photo at top is the finished job. The photos below are what he sent me. Total time 3 hours with 2 and 1/2 of that being internet problems.

Baseball game tonight. Tomorrow is on to Durham, NC for a 3 day wedding. I will post stuff from Durham.

What Not to Say

The only thing hotter than Georgia asphalt in July is Hell. Now, when you walk into a church hauling all of your equipment in 98 degree heat 2 hours before a wedding is to start, sweating like a pig in shorts and tennis shoes, and the Minister walks up to you and the first thing he says is "I do suppose you have a coat and tie ?" The proper answer is not " Yes, I have one in the truck, It's not as loud as yours though "
Anyway on to photos from today's wedding. Tonight I am putting up the Before and After versions of just 2 photos. It is 3am and so I will keep this short.
The "BEFORE" version is the shot straight out of the camera. The "AFTER" version is really what I was thinking when I took the photo, and has had about 3 min of work done to it in Photoshop. I took the photos already knowing what I was going to do with them later with the computer.
If you would like to learn how to do what I have done with these images, keep looking at this BLOG and send me an e mail. You will be notified as to when my next "Scott Evans WOW Factor" seminar or class will be and also when the new Scott Evans WOW Factor DVD set is ready to ship. The DVDs are so close to being ready that I can almost smell the shrink wrap.