Halloween

So tonight was Halloween. The photos are of Christina and Jonathan who have been staying with me for a few months. Jonathan will be two at Christmas and tonight he was a pirate. The next photo is of my son Garen and his girlfriend. Garen dressed up as her and she was a thug gangster with a aluminium foil "Grill" Seeing my sporto son dressed as a girl sent a cold chill down my spine. He looks like my brothers daughters and a little like my mother. Oh well, David Bowie made a lot of money dressing that way.
The last photo is of what I did for the evening. I just went for a canoe ride to photograph the geese. I got started to late and only got this one shot of 4 of them taking off in front of me.

Red Sox Win

OK, so the Red Sox won the World Series. They played better than the Rockies. They deserved to win. But I was still pulling for the Rockies because I am a National League kind of guy. Go Braves in 2008 !

The Faces of Town

Here are a few photos from my personal project called "Faces of Town" It is a collection of photographs of the people that you see almost daily around the downtown area of McDonough , Ga. This is a great town. The fruit stand lady leaves all of her produce outside at night on her little stand and no one ever steals it. There is the guy that gives out the parking tickets. The firemen who are always outside. My real estate agent, half naked in black and white. The pretty blond owns my favorite restaurant. I shot those this morning. I have many more on the way and they will all hang at the main restaurant on the town sq threw Christmas. All of the prints will be 30 to 40 inch gallery wrap canvas.

Y'all Get to Church

Just a photo from today's wedding in Fayetteville, Ga. I think I will call it "Y'all Get to Church"

The Post Below This One

In the post below this one I said that "I almost Promise" to update the blog every day. Look for stuff from the two weddings I have this weekend in the next post.
Also, as of yesterday I will be the speaker on Sunday night for the Alabama- Mississippi PPA convention in July in Moblie , Al. I will be doing my new "50 Things Every Photographer Should Know" show.

South Dakota and Dominican Republic What Do They Have in Common ?

Both places have someone new looking at my blog ! And London, England checked in too. Welcome to you all.

And hey Ringold, Ga. I need a comment. Also one from Memphis would be good. And lets see......... I need a post from J in Kansas and one from just north of Ocala, Fl and I haven't heard anything from the good folks in Kentucky in a while. Greenville, SC needs to call me with a credit card number and the jackass from North Carolina that keeps e mailing me, please stop.
To the TVA photography group, I would love to do a Photo Restoration seminar over there next year. To the Aniston , Al Cheehah group, please send in my speaker merit form. And I would love to do another show over there also and then go drink beer with y'all again. GLPPA in Louisville, KY I still need y'all to send in my speaker merit form to PPA. Also, Brownsville, TX please e mail me and let me know how you liked the DVD set.

That about covers all of the things I needed to get off my chest. I almost promise to update the blog every day.

Portrait Session

This morning I did a quick portrait session at my house. We viewed the photos projected in my media room and an order for 12 8x10s , 3-16x20s and a 30x40 inch Gallery Wrapped Canvas was placed at that time. I never really enjoyed doing formal portraits before but I am starting to like it. I think I am going to do a week of portraits each month. The photo with 3 people in it is going to be the 30x40 with 16x20s of the other two. Any comments ? Should I just stick to weddings?

This Weekends Wedding

I had a good time this weekend. My wedding was for a family and group of friends that I have photographed several events for. I love photographing this family. They have such beautiful daughters. I asked the brides father how he manged all the guys buzzing around as they were all growing up and he gave me this look like I really don't what to know. He and his wife must have done a great job because all of the sisters are so articulate, witty, and graceful. What we call "Good Southern Girls"

Here are just a few photos from the wedding.

Just Saying Hi

I know it has been 3 weeks since my last post. I have been super busy and the blog got pushed to the back burner. Nothing really newsworthy other than I took 1st place in the Wedding Category at the Georgia Professional Photographers print competition in Augusta, Ga. It was at the annual convention and I got to watch the judging of the photographs. It took about 7 hours to judge them all. It was very enlightening.
The only other thing of any interest was that I was almost killed at last weekends wedding. I tripped and almost went over the balcony railing at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Atlanta. The photo is taken from where I landed. Those steps are steep and slick.

That night when I got home and started to unload my bags and download all the images, my little dog Sonny was the only one waiting up on me. He crashed on my light kit bag the instant I sat it down. He has never done that before and now I can't keep him off of it. It is comfy. I slept on it one time in an airport.

Lastly but the most enjoyable thing is that I took my daughter Marah out for her 17th birthday this evening. The photo of my kids was taken at the ball field a few weeks ago with my little Nikon S9.