Last Weekend's Wedding

These two photos are of the coolest couple. I had a crew of 3 with me for this event and it went so smooth that I think I will start working with a second photographer/assistant all the time. I have always been a loaner when it comes to my photography, but since I had over $8000.00 worth of photo gear stolen at a wedding a year or so ago I have been using my son Garen as my gear carrier and go for monkey.

Then he started shooing about a year ago, and the stuff that is just flowing from his camera is starting to make me believe that he HAS been listening to me all this time.

I shot these photos, his will be on his own BLOG when he creates it.

It is also Halloween on the square today and the kids are everywhere. Melissa is at the font of the shop handing out candy. The photo is right when the kids started down the street, in the last hour we have run out of candy with almost 200 kids coming by.

Never Mix Business and Politics

Oh Well, I loose. No Wait, AMERICA has lost.
This post was updated Nov 4 2008 at 11:26 PM
For all of the legit photographers out there that are running LEGITIMATE businesses, start giving slight discounts for cash. Anything you put in the bank just might get "Redistributed".

GPPA Print Competition

I am a member of the PPA (Professional Photographers of America) and the state affiliate GPPA and SEPPA ( Georgia Professional Photographers of America and South Eastern PPA) Each year, each organization has a photograph competition with hundreds of photos being submitted to be judged by other PPA members who have been certified as judges after taking the judges class and exam ect. Anyway I entered the GA competition a few weeks ago at the annual convention held in Athens, Ga.
Well, all 6 of the 16x20 prints I entered earned Merits with 3 being scored in the "Distinguished" print category for scores higher than 80. I know that in High School and 80 is only a "C" average, but in the world of print competition it is very high. The photo of the High School Senior with the saxophone called "Jazz on the Docks" scored an 86. (Scroll down to a blog post from July called "SENIORS") It won first place in the Teen Portraits category, The Distinguished Award, Best of Show for All Portraits and the biggie, The Kodak award for Photographic Excellence. I was floored when I opened the big box that the UPS guy drooped off yesterday. See the photo below of all of the awards.
I really do not like to show off, but this was a really big thing for me and I just had to tell somebody.
Also, to see a video of the wedding album I designed from the wedding I shot in New York 2 weeks ago, click here to be taken to my album video site. http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewalbum.html?bm=79060 When you get to the video site, it is in the Sub category called RECENT WEDDINGS

NYC

This last weekend I shot a rather large wedding in Manhattan. It was raining all weekend. The UN was in session. President Bush and the jack ass president of Iran were both at the Waldorf Astoria hotel at the same time and security on the East side of Manhattan was INSANE. 4 police officers on every corner . Most with automatic weapons. Security check points, and me with a wedding taking place in 3 different high profile venues right in the middle of all of it. I was staying at The River Club at the end of 52nd Street east right on the east river. Great place. The staff was so cool and helpful. If you have $600.00 a night to blow on a hotel room that is the size of a walk in closet and looks like the extra bedroom at your great grandmothers house, I highly recommend it.

The photos are from the album I am working on from this wedding. One from the inside of Christ Church on Park Ave. where the ceremony took place. One is a 2page spread of Times Sq. The photos with the red circles around them are photos of the bride and groom that I inserted in place of the HUGH signs and video screens that are in the Sq. (No the Red Circles are not on the photo for the album, ) And the one with the elevator buttons is the last page spread in the wedding album. The photo of the cab has me looking out the window and the add sign on top has a photo of the bride on it.