Emily

This is Emily. Her wedding was last weekend. If you looked up Smart, Funny, Silly and Hot Looking in the encyclopedia, you would get a 4 page article on Emily.

Just A Few

Just a few photos from today's wedding. I got home at 1 am.

This was what I call "One of My Weddings" They booked me without going threw an agent or event faculty. They paid full price with no questions asked and told me to design the album without any input from them. What they are going to get will be way beyond what they are expecting.
Just the facts babe.

Hawaii Wedding

As some of you may know, I am not just a wedding photographer, I am also a wedding minister. I got this call today from a young lady who said her parents had to get married. They have been together for over 20 years but never bothered to make it official. She wanted married parents !

But the mom said she would not get married unless it was on a beach in Hawaii. A trip for 3 to Hawaii was out of the picture so the daughter called around and got the marriage licence info for her parents and then went about finding a minister with a Hawaiian shirt and maybe a pool they could stand by. The daughter was given my name by a judge that said if anyone had a Hawaiian shirt it would be me. They came to my house this afternoon and I married them down by the lake.

We Have Snow

No big deal for most of the country, but we only get this much snow about every ten years or so.

The two photos are from the entrance to my neighborhood and of my back yard.

Grandma's Cracked !

At our Image Doctor Photograph Restoration Shop in McDonough we have been using the cracked granny photo that you see here in our advertising for about 15 years. It always has the caption "GRANDMA'S CRACKED, GET HER BACK TOGETHER HERE.
Today I got this e mail:

Dear Scott,
This is a picture of my great, great grandmother, Corinthia Knight Newman. I am the person who brought this photo in, in a bag, the middle was in shattered pieces, it had been in the bottom of my mothers cedar chest for years. Originally it was a concave picture on cardboard, or whatever they used back then. I believe I brought it to you around 1994, you were operating on the square in Fayetteville then. I found the picture, and wanted to have it restored for my grandmother, she did not have any photos of her grandmother. You did such a wonderful job with this photo, I really didn't think it could be saved, but you saved it and brought it back to it's original state, it is a treasured family heirloom now.
Corinthia was from West Virginia, my mother and father moved to Georgia in 1972, since then our family tree has expanded, I have family living in McDonough, and drive through the square all the time. I received a call one day from a niece who had spotted your display board in front of your business, she told me it was there. Later my son who also spotted it, told me it was on the big billboard, so I had to pay attention next time I came through the square, and there it was. Corinthia is famous, wow.
Just wanted to thank you for a job well done, and tell you how priceless it is to all our family, hope you have continued success, and bring your magic touch to many more families with irreplaceable photos. It is a great gift, service, and obviously something you are passionate about.
Sincerely,
Bobbi Ferris

Thank you for making our day Bobbi

Christmas Eve

I know that there have not been many post showing photography stuff lately, That does not mean that I have not been busy. I had a big wedding last weekend and the Photo Restoration shop has been wall to wall with customers over the last month.
It was all fun , but the most fun I had all month was playing monopoly with my two teenagers at the lake house on Christmas Eve. We have decided that playing monopoly the night before Christmas will be a new family tradition for us to go along with the other tradition of singing Beach Boys songs in the car on the way to my family's big Christmas dinner at my niece Erica's house.

Everything is Cool, Everything is OK

I want to start this off by saying that the staff and overall organization of Children's Health Care of Atlanta at Emory in Atlanta Georgia are so AWESOME ! I was impressed the moment my son and I pulled into the parking lot at the hospital. They have Valet Parking. Does that seem snooty and excessive, not at all. What if you are a single mom with no one to help you with a sick child. Do you want to have to haul a sick or injured child threw 3 flights of parking deck stairs ? Well no.
The sidewalks have short fenced sides to keep small children from running into traffic. There were clowns in the surgery waiting room. Real clowns that were not creepy and on staff full time.
In the lobby, the local animal shelter brought in very clean puppies and small dogs for the children that are staying there to play with, and in the afternoon, they even shipped in "Stand In Grandparents" from the old folks home. This place was like a resort for children.

My son is almost to old to be a patient there as he is 17 but since he is under 18 his doctor insisted that he have his exploratory procedure done at Children Health Care of Atlanta.
The photo is of my son Garen , he was very nervous about surgery and his blood pressure was very high. This photo was taken just as the drugs to "Chill him out" were kicking in. He was hilarious. One of the nurses said the word "Respect" in conversation with the anesthesiologist and Garen started singing the Aretha Franklin song R-E-S-P-E-C-T- as they wheeled him down the hall to the OR.
The results of the procedure were great and with treatment the Doc says he will be hitting home runs and stealing bases by February.
I know that most of the time only pro photographers look at this blog. As pros, I feel that we could learn a lesson from Children Health Care and really custom tailor our services and products to the exact needs of our target customers. Remember, no one cares about what you want. They only care about what they want. Indulge them.

I Thought This Was A Photography Studio

This weekend, the lights have been moved, the backgrounds are rolled up and my son and his band mates have taken over the studio. Seems that my studio is a perfect practice location. They have their first show Thursday and are all pretty nervous.

What Have I Not Been Doing !

You name it and I'll bet I have had to do it in the last 2 months. Lets see, I have two art shows hanging at the moment. It is Christmas season at my Image Doctor photo restoration shop on the McDonough ,Ga town square. High school seniors have been ringing the phone off the hook for portrait sessions and I have weddings running out my ears. (Due to my contracts with 4 different event facilities) and relationships with two different private schools. The photos are from a few of the senior sessions.

Can You See Me Now ?

Next week my latest photography show will go on display at a restaurant in my town. Every time I do one of these, the phone starts ringing at the shop. In the past my shows have always

had something to do with a service that we offered at my shop and studio/showroom.
The shows have been:
"The Faces of Town" about local characters.
"McDonough History", that one was about Photo Restoration.
"The Last of Youth" was all photos of high school seniors.
"Kiss" A collection of hot steamy photos of couples kissing from weddings that I have shot all over the country.
The new show is different. It is a collection of photos only taken with cell phones.
The photos are all printed at 30x40 inches and were shot with my IPhone and a Motorola Razor Phone.
I was supposed to hang them today but I am running a day behind. I spent most of last night at the hospital with my son who was hurt pretty bad at his hockey game last night. His shoulder has a crack in it but we do not know how big because the swelling was so bad that a good x-ray was not possible. He had a rough night and is in a restant to keep his shoulder and rotate cuff from moving. The pain meds made him nauseous and he vomited all night and day. We go for a new x-ray and MRI on Monday. But enough about our drama, check out half of the images from may latest show, "Can You See Me Now ?" A collection of cell phone photos.

Titles are:

Go To the Light

Lake Dow Morning

Twang

The Sands of Time

Tybee Lighthouse

Untitled

I Think I See a Wisker

One Second Left in the Penalty Box

Got Crabs ?

My son and I do. Wow I never thought I would say that. This weekend my son and I were at Jekyll Island to drop off my prints for the Georgia Professional Photographers photo competition. The photo is of him and the crab burgers we had at a juke joint down by the marina. We rented bicycles and rode all over the island in the drizzling rain on Friday and then while I was watching the competition judging on Saturday morning he went fishing and crabing at the fishing pier.

I entered 6 prints and the judging was so slow. It seemed that almost every other print score was challenged and that would unleash tons of personal thoughts, comments and feelings about every little nuisance of the photo being judged from each of the 6 judges. It took forever. I split at noon after 3 hours of watching. I saw 3 of my prints be judged and the one I felt was the strongest image got the lowest score. Go figure.

There was a husband / wife team on the judging panel out of Tennessee that in my opinion we really in tune with the what was going on. Their scoring and insight as to the real world goings on of real working photographers was very insightful and I hope inspiring to the many "New" photographers in the room.

Around the Town

These few photos are from this last weekends wedding. When we have time and the bride and groom are willing, we will go on a quick run around whatever town we are in. These photos and several others that I did not post were taken during a 5 min run down some back alleys while the wedding guests were getting situated in the reception hall and having a few (a lot) of drinks.

I Said This Last Year

Outdoor weddings in Georgia in July and August are just not a good idea. It has been in the 90s here for weeks and the humidity is just unbearable if you are outdoors in a suit and tie hauling all of your equipment. And this weekend I had 3 weddings and got rained on each time. Just venting a little. Will post some links to some cool stuff soon.

Wedding School Pushed Back to Sept

Wedding School has been pushed back to September as 7 people canceled due to financial reasons. All of them said that their business was not doing so well and Wedding School was not in the budget. I have 3 weddings this weekend, hmmmmm maybe come to Wedding School and find out how I am booking all of these weddings.

The photo is from last nights event. The Ritz Carlton at Lake Oconee went all out and had a Mid Summer Nights Dream theme for this outside wedding gathering. The wait staff were all in costume and there was a bonfire with marsh mellows and smores being roasted. I am heading out there right now again as I have another wedding event this evening. Tomorrow morning I am off to the airport early as I have a wedding in Strasbourg, PA at 4pm. I will post photos from the iphone if I can.

Big News will post on Friday

Wedding School dates will be posted on friday.

South Ga Girls

This weekend I shot a wedding in Jekyll Island, Ga. It was at the Beach View Club, a place I remember as Jekyll Estates from somewhere around 1981. Anyway, the wedding was beautiful, right at the edge of the sand dunes overlooking the beach. I will post photos from this wedding this week. I would do it now but I have not downloaded them to this computer yet. Look for them around Wed. The photo was taken from my iphone at 6:45this morning.
To see the wedding album, go to www.scottevans.com Click on the GALLERY section at the bottom of the page and then go to page two.
I stayed at the beach from Friday to this morning when the sun burn and the gobs of alo vera that was all over my body kept me from sleeping. So at 5am I just got up and got ready to check out and head home.
Now, about South Ga girls. They are my dream girls. Gracious, Charming, and always dress in clothing from boutiques because there are no department stores out in the boonies. And I get to hear some of the saying that I remember from my childhood. Things like "That shrimp has just done flung a cravin' on me" or "Either the heat or the peanuts are givin' me the vapors" or the best one all weekend was "Damn it's hot, and the material this dress is made of has got me sweatin' like a whore in church"
I love my job.
Till next time,
Scott

Senior Twins

This week I had the true pleasure of photographing a couple of high school seniors that just happen to be twins. What a cool set of kids. Both honor students with over 4.0 grade point averages and wide open to all of the crazy suggestions that I came up with. Their mom was in tune with what I was thinking also. I explained to her that I like for my photos to have room to breathe, kind of like a Pink Floyd song. Just a few notes and then time to let them take on a sound of their own. That is just the way I explain it. Take the first photo in the field, to me, it has room to let your imagination go. What was in this field? Cows, hay, a baseball field 50 years ago. All of the above. Enough rambling, The field photo will be in one of my new videos, "My Favorite Photos and How They Were Made Volume 2"

The Hero

Just some photos from Saturdays wedding. The one on the stairs I call "The Hero" "My Hero" "Her Hero" just pick whatever name suits you the best.

It was really fun and fast paced when we went to make these photos after the wedding We got to my in town location right at dark so all of these outside photos are at an exposure of 1 second or more.

Monday Wedding

Well today, it quit raining just long enough for me to get this shot at the Ritz Carlton on Lake Oconee. What a cool couple. We had never met until today but I knew from talking with the bride on the phone that this would be a smooth evening. It was planed well and her vibe was cool. I like shooting here and am at the top of their vendor list.

I did this job at a discount because it was a Monday, the day I normaly take off.

3 Days 4 Weddings

And the weather sucked for all of them.
Friday was outside in the rain. Saturday was 2 inside with thunderstorms and today it was outside and cold and windy. But I got some really cool images. I will post some on Monday night. I will be busy with post production for a few days. My Godsend of an assistant Tracy will be out all week so there will be no free time at all.
In the last 10 days I have photographed 6 weddings, a dance at a school and a corporate shoot. Also edited and did the artwork for 2 other weddings that Chip shot for me.
Next Friday is a prom and a wedding at the beach on Sunday. If the weather is good, I might stay at the beach for a few days, I think it will be well deserved .