Oh man.

Yeah, so: Logged on to do some time in the bloggersphere and the site's image upload is down for the next two hours due to maintenance. Nooooo!! So, um, Terra and Eddie's awesome engagements will have to wait a bit. Until then let me hint at a few up and coming blog posts: Two weddings. Both very different in scope. One took place out in Livingston, Texas at a neighborhood park surrounded by woods and a lake. Tiki torches and Christmas lights lit the place up while the bride got down underneath the gazebo. How fun is that?! Next took place in downtown Dallas and the First Presbyterian Church, a beautiful church with this awesome stained glass dome that glows over the congregation. Amazing architecture out front. Beautiful pictures of the bride and groom! Very awesome Church! Very awesome couple! So much more to come...!

krista and ano

Sorry I've been falling so behind on my blog posts, been crazy busy! I finally found the time to post these of Krista and Ano! Great friends of mine who are getting married next year-and guess who the photographer is? No. Not him, ME! We had a great time walking around UTA, the campus they met, then dated, then proposed or got proposed to on. It was a beautiful day, I hope they enjoyed it half as much as I did.

So, this last shot is a huge fav of mine. I love the look and feel of the entire setting. Like some hot and sultry dive found outside some villa somewhere hot and sultry. Okay, so stereotypes and locations totally escape me right now, but wherever it is I'm thinking about, this looks like it was taken there! I added a cross-process filter to give a bit more of a fashion edge, but I love this shot in any light.

arts goggle

Arts Goggle, the art fest with the funny name. Tomorrow I'm showing some recent work at the SouthSide art fest in Fort Worth, my home away from home. The set up was today, spent a couple hours hanging frames and tweaking the background, moving easels around, and working on my space. The venue is Thumbtechs 201 South Main Street. It's some computer tech company with a really nice building and an impressive glass conference room. The people there were kind enough to open their doors to local artists, those of us who can't handle a lot of time in front of a glowing monitor, to show our craft and schmooze with the community a bit. I thank them for letting us in. It's October the 1st today! And I couldn't think of a better way to kick off the fall season than this. Here's a couple of shots of the venue and my set up. If you're a Fort Worthian and can come by, you should. I hope to see you there.

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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