baby on board

Hooray for Christine and Blake! Here they stand at the threshold of parenthood, not fully realizing the journey ahead, and yet-like all peoples-they're steadfast and strong, diligent to bring into this world a new life, a new love, a new person, which has never been seen nor heard before. A baby boy. Congrats to them (was this a little over the top? Oh-well, on to the photos!).

aimee and justin-cont'd

There are too many great shots of Aimee's wedding to just post those few earlier, so I wanted to share a few more with you here. Enjoy!

christine-maternity shoot

Here's a quick sneak peak at Christine's maternity shoot. Full details and session highlights to follow soon!

aimee and justin-the wedding!

The wait is finally over! Aimee and Justin got married in south Louisiana and at the church I grew up in. These two are awesome and I wish them all best! As usual there's too many favorites to post here so I can only leave everyone with a small morsel, but they're good ones. Congratulations you two-best wishes Cuz'!

twelve

Here's another sneak peek at '12'-my autobiographical photography essay. Each shot in the series represents me or an aspect of my life up to this point in it. Intended for a private show, the portfolio is finished, now I'm on the hunt for a gallery to host it. Back in the good ol' days of Saturday morning cartoons, antennae television signals, original Nintendo, and pagers, I lived on a farm. We raised several animals, but I showed cows. Polled Hereford Heifers, my dad would have corrected. Feeding animals, repairing fences, participating in cow shows-local, regional, district, state levels, bathing them, grooming them, trimming them, teasing them (their hair that is), hauling them, selling them, eating them...all were in a days work. And now, here's homage to them.

the old garage

The edges of Livingston Parish are not without old abandoned houses, homes, businesses, or barns. I could do an entire book focusing on just them alone. Some with tons of character, others that are just another abandoned building. I passed this particular spot a couple times during my weekend in Louisiana, when I decided to hop out and finish up a roll of film with this garage. Standing directly in front of the building I quickly composed this shot, filling a bit more frame with the grass that had overtaken the front yard of the place in order to emphasize the empty, gaping doorways. A decent shot that I increasingly like the more I look at it, mainly because of the texture that the grass gives to the shot.

fisheye wedding shots

My amazing wife bought me a lomography fisheye camera as a present, not too long ago. I love it, but I haven't shown it much love lately. It was getting rather lonely and told me so. Right then and there I decided that it's day was due and I needed to give it some special attention, so I brought it along to Aimee and Justin's wedding over the weekend and made it my second shooter. How. Fun. Are. These! The actual wedding pictures are still in the editing process and will be here soon, but these were so cool I couldn't wait to show them. So, here's a fisheye preview of their beautiful wedding day.

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aimee's bridals

So, the weddings over and an amazing time had by all (those to come), I now can reveal Aimee's bridal portraits we did at the new Governor's mansion in Baton Rouge. I loved them all, and I know I probably say that a lot, but it's true. Enjoy.