Firday Foto: All a blur

What a blur of a week! Man, I really don't know where Saturday ended and Thursday morning began. 

Today's foto comes from a wedding I shot last week on Friday night. I love shots like this. They are great photos to tell a story. Standing alone, it doesn't say much other than a cool shot. But as part of the bigger story, perhaps shown in sequence in an album, it shows the bride chasing the groom around with a piece of cake. This shot was taken at 1/8 of a second at f5.6 which would have been completely blurry had I not fired some flash and panned the image as well. 

Saturday night we had another baby party, it was fun. Kelly and I got lots of good stuff for the baby. That kid has easily more clothes than her and I combined. I really need to up his game on camo and jeep themed clothing. Too many damn sailboats and bunnys are going to make this kid crazy (or at least me!).

This weekend I plan on getting away. Don't know exactly what we're doing, but I need a break. I think we are going to spend a night over on Jekyll Island somewhere. This is our last free weekend before baby. 

So I have a ton of friends getting blackberries. What the heck is wrong with them? The iPhone is such a better product. All the promoting I do doesn't seem to work. Oh well. They'll soon find out when they are complaining that it won't work. HA!

I have tons of other things I could write about, but I need to get some work done. So, I'll save it for another posting. Hope y'all have a great weekend!

Friday Foto: Just a blur

It's been a crazy week. Saturday through today is one big blur and I'm sure the next two months will follow closely the same pattern. It's OK. I have a lot of fun things planned and many great things to look forward to, one of which is this weekend. I have a lot of family coming in town for another Baby "Party", as I like to call it, that will be held on Saturday. I'm excited. And Sunday is Easter, which means Peeps, Cadburry eggs and not one, but TWO huge meals. I'm excited. 

I've been shooting a ton lately, and I'm really excited about that. Today's photo comes from a serious of shoots that I did for the folks at The Vine. I had the opportunity to photograph some of their work for a nationally published book in which they will be featured. This is one of my favorites. They designed these containers and planted them.  This house is on Ocean Forrest, on Sea Island.

First wedding of the season is tonight. I'll be shooting an outdoor wedding and reception down at the Village. I'm looking forward to wedding season, I really enjoy shooting them. 

My Saturday plans consist of rolling out of bed at the break of dawn and dragging myself to the beach and passing out all day. I'm looking forward to it. Should be a very nice beach day.

Friday Foto: A Spoonful of this and that

And hello there, finally, it's Friday again. As always, this week has been crazing, leaving me wondering where Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday went. The rain didn't help, which lasted from Tuesday night until last night. Back in the '50s, Glynn Haven (my neighborhood) was a thriving lake community. If you don't believe that, come look at my front yard. I came home from work on Wednesday to find the neighborhood kids splashing and riding bikes through my newly installed lap pool. Yeah, I'm hoping to get a little pool-side-ala-front-yard-puddle swimming in this weekend myself. If anybody wants in, swing on over, I'll provide the towels and beer.... ring worms are provided at no charge.

So this shot comes from a shoot I just wrapped up a couple of weeks ago. I waited to post it here until it was published, and now that the April issue of Elegant Island Living is on the stands, here you are folks. This was part of a fashion series I shot for them on island-casual fashion. The models were great to work with and so was the editor. I enjoy shooting shots like this, it's some of my favorite type of photography. This photo was shot as close to dusk as I could get and I used an off-camera flash hidden in the tree on camera right to fill in the faces of the models a little. If anything, I use as little flash as possible. The flash was set to 2 stops under exposure, shot through a soft box to just barely lighten the face. I'm very happy with the results. The setting is also superb, thanks to the generosity of the ladies at The Vine, for letting us use their backyard. The other shots, at different locations, all came out great, but this was my favorite. It was the last shot and you always get better shots, with more relaxed models I feel. But we all hit it off right away. Be sure to grab the latest issue.

So now I feel it's my duty to share with you my new favorite artist. Jason Spooner.  From Maine, he's a singer/songwriter with a recipe consisting of a little John Mayer, Randall Bramblett, Jason Mraz and hints of various Union Station, Talking Heads and Counting Crows. I have fallen in love, for sure. As perfectly described to me, his latest album The Flame You Follow (2007), is like the perfect mix CD. Starting with a sure, radio-ready song, taking a path down hard-beat acoustic guitar-driven tracks that are musical reminiscent of early Dave Matthews and ending with one of the best covers I've ever heard. I love his take on The Talking Head's "Slippery People". It's slowed down slightly, and heavy on some awesome acoustic-fueled rhythm. The whole CD has been playing non-stop in my life for the past four days. I could easily lay in bed and watch the rain fall to it, and in the same track, get up and dance wildly. I love it. 

Anyway, not much else is new. I'm excited about this weekend. We have our first baby party (I refuse to use the word 'shower'). This is the one all of our friends have gotten together to throw for us. I'm pretty excited about partying and seeing everybody. We're going to drag it out as long as possible (at least I am) with a cookout to follow at my house. After all, I am drinking for two now right? HAHA. Have a great, non-rainy day today.