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Joe Bonamassa @ Center Stage Atlanta

November 3, 2009 – 5:59 pm

My buddy Chris turned me on to Joe Bonamassa last year. He invited Ally and I to go to a concert @ Center Stage Atlanta. I figured free tickets can’t be bad, right? Well, Joe Bonamassa knocked my socks off. He not only is one of the best guitarists in the world, he is a great entertainer. I took some pics with my little Canon G9, posted it to my Facebook, and tagged Joe in it. Well, Rachel Iverson from Joe’s management team saw it, liked it and was interested in using it. I asked if I could get a pass for this year’s show, and bring some real gear. So fast forward to this past Friday night, and here’s what we have…











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Model Shoot, Macon GA

October 26, 2009 – 12:40 am

Last week I was in Macon at the OSP South IV event. I was speaking on HS Senior marketing. Joe Dallas gave a great demo about lighting, and arranged a shoot with some models that afternoon. There are some wedding gown images on my other blog, but here are some of the very coolest images from the day. The models were awesome, one did her own makeup (she is also a make up artist), and they all followed direction very well. They were great to work with! The location was a building built in 1939 as an automobile dealership. There were these cool metal doors on pulleys, lots of colored brick, light streaming in through skylights, just a fantastic place.










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A new puppy!

April 21, 2009 – 11:34 am

Zippy short for (Zippididoodadidibopdadowahdiddy), went to the vet yesterday for her one year shots, and to have her ear checked. She’s been bothered by something in her ear and going crazy chasing her tail, scratching her ear, hissing, the whole thing. well, we walked in to find the Seven Dwarfs. The Seven Dwarfs were a litter of seven Jack Russell/Boston Terrier mix puppies that had been abandoned, and the vet was adopting them for a $25 donation. If you know about the almost adoption of the Chocolate lab/Dachsund mix about 3 months ago, you know that it broke my heart when they decided to keep Reagan and not let us adopt her. I had already bought toys! So when I saw this face I was done for. He is now asleep squeezed in beside me in the chair. If I get out of sight he whines until I come back.


Now he just needs a name! Suggest a name and win a session in the studio if we pick yours!

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Thanks to all…

January 10, 2009 – 2:15 pm

of you that voted for the images I wanted to put it a contest! I went to Charleston in November with about 100 or so other photographers for 3 days of seminars, fellowship, and photography. One of the items on the agenda was a model shoot, where models including brides, children, and couples were posted at “stations” in Charleston, and we were to spend about 10 minutes at each station photographing the model. Then there was a contest to be entered to see who got the number one best image from the day. Well, I wasn’t planning on doing the model shoot, instead just wanting to hang out and take it easy that afternoon. Dawn Haas was headed out to the model stations, and asked me to go with her, because she didn’t want to walk alone. So I went. I didn’t have my bag with me, so all I had was my camera, one lens, one card, and no lighting. But as long as I was there, why not shoot, right? Well, I wasn’t going to enter the contest either, but again I was prodded to do it. Well, I posted my 6 faves, you all voted, and I entered the images that got the most votes (which wasn’t my favorite), and…I WON! So thanks to everyone that voted!

Here is the image that won…
Bride on Wall

This was my favorite…
Couple in street

I won a free ShowIt Site for a year, and a canvas print from Pixel2Canvas!

I think I’ll put that winning image on that canvas!

Thanks again!

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Huge Thanks!

December 10, 2008 – 2:33 am

Lucinda Westrick found me through Operation Love, and asked if I’d be interested in doing something a little out of the norm. Well, I like being out of the norm, you know? So Sunday afternoon, we photographed about 40 soldiers, families, and children from the Echo 148 GNG FSB, that is deploying early January to southern Afghanistan. They had a Christmas banquet hosted by Hebron Baptist Church in Dacula, complete with Santa. I need to say a big “Thank You!” to Mike Tucker of Mike Tucker Photography in Anderson SC, who also set up a photographed with me, and Kelly LaBruyere of True Expression Photography in Atlanta GA, that kept us straight and organized with all the people wanting to be photographed. Lucinda Westrick is the contact person there with the unit, and she is a worker! This thing was put together in about 3 weeks from what I understand, and was done well. Adam from Instaproofs has graciously allowed me to host the images on his system do the soldiers and their families can download them at no charge.

So a huge Thank You! to Lucinda for all of her work getting this thing together!
So a huge Thank You! to Mike Tucker and Kelly LaBruyere for all of their help in getting all of these folks photographed!
So a huge Thank You! to Hebron Baptist Church for volunteering the space for the event.
And a even bigger Thank You! to the men and woman of GNG Echo 148 that are headed to Afghanistan to serve and protect our country, and their families that are sacrificing here while their loved ones are away.

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