Time flies

Hi everyone,

Time sure flies doesn't it? Spring is here it seems. We are getting nicer weather, and The NW Horse Fair and Expo is next week! Drop by the booth to say hi and enter to win a personally signed, artist's original, metallic canvas 16x20 print.

Hope to see you there and put faces to some of these email names!

Fun at Scottsdale!

Well, regretfully I am back from a way-too-short trip to Scottsdale Az. I went down 3 days this last week and shot to my heart's content. I got to play and get as creative or as straight forward as I wanted, it was a blast!

I used this as a spring exercise to refresh my skills and I challenged myself to shoot everything manually. For the most part I did, and it really paid off. Here are a few images to share, I will be adding more as I get them edited. Enjoy!

More from yesterday

Here's a few more shots to share from yesterday's shoot.

A super sneak peek....

This is "Dice" a very handsome black and white saddlebred stallion I had the pleasure of shooting today. I am actually going to edit these in the morning so I will add some more to share when I am done. We're all fighting this nasty cold this week, so I am going to just go take it easy tonight. Enjoy

(you can click on the picture for a larger view if you like)

Scottsdale, here I come.

I will be at the Scottsdale Arabian Show on Feb 19th through the 22nd this year. Yes in about 2 weeks. I am taking my photography gear of course, but I am not going as a shooter there, basically a tourist. Although I will be shooting like mad no doubt, and if anyone wants me to shoot, let me know, we can hook up and I'll snap a few shots for you of course.

What I take on my own time, I will post in an online gallery for people to look through afterwards. I'm just excited to be going and have the opportunity. If anyone wants to meet up and hang out, just email me, we'll work something out!

I can't wait, it can't get here fast enough!

Newest Marketing stuff

I have been busy these past few days. In between working I have been, well, working!

Here are the rough draft pages of a "portfolio" book I am making to put on display in a booth at a couple of upcoming events. I will sit on it for a few days before I send it to print. Does anything especially jump out to you that is good or bad? I still have time to make changes. :)

These will be 10x10 pages, so they are canvased as the book would be open 10x20. You can click on them to see bigger images.

New marketing materials

Since shooting is a bit slow, I am taking this time to get caught up on some much needed marketing materials, etc. Getting ready for 2008! (which is here already) Here's a post card I did up, it's an oversized card, 5.5 in X 8.5 in:


Front:
and Back:

casual portraits

It's nice to be shooting a bit again after the holidays. Here are a couple shots from a very casual session I did yesterday.

Client Work

YES, I am available to photograph your dog(s). Just give me a call or shoot me an email and we can set it up. You don't have to worry, we can almost always shoot around the weather. Here's the cutest puppy ever that I shot today...



You can see the rest of the shoot here: Aussie Puppy

More dogs

Well, as times would have it, I am shooting lots of my dogs these days. Today we went on a long walk and it was just gorgeous out, cold, but very pretty.

I am beginning work on a new site with cool flash and galleries, but it could be 6 months until it goes online still. All in the plans though, I'm excited about that.

Slow.........

We ran out to the Oregon Coast today. It was wonderful! The weather was even better than here in town. Here's a couple shots of the dogs, seems like that's all I am shooting these days..... I'll add more as I go.

I am completely enjoying this little slow time in shooting. I pretty much took December off. I have lots of projects coming soon, so I will take what I can get for relaxation now!

Blue eyes and gone teeth

Happy New Years everyone!

Fun Times

This is a great time of the year for me. I basically take a very limited number of clients during the cold wet season, and have lots of time to play with stuff, and get ready for next years marketing adventures.

Today we went and froze at the local dog park again since the dogs had not been out in a week, and that's just too long! (Anyone out there with an active breed knows exactly what I am talking about)

Here's a shot I took, then played with a motion filter with in PSCS3. Which one do you like? Every once in a while I like to take it back to black and white and freshen up on composition and light. Well, there was no great dramatic light today, so I just played.....

Happy Holidays.

Season's Greetings and Happy Holidays to all of you. I am taking a break until after New Years but I will still answer email, and check my phone messages.

See you all in 2008!

Lost Tooth

I seem to have had quite a few parents requesting that I do not put their children on the blog, which I always respect, so let me post yet another shot of my own little one :)

My daughter lost her third tooth this Morning, So I played around and got some fun shots. Stuff like this just tickles me, I love documenting life little moments. I kind of haven't even started on my Christmas cards this year so I am going to use one of these, let me digress.

4 weeks ago when her 2 front teeth started showing signs of being loose, I giggled and told her; "Yay, then you can sing all I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth" She proceeded to get very disturbed at this and decided they were not coming out before so she didn't have to sing the song. For weeks now she has been tucking them back into the gum and swearing they will not come out ever.

Last night, it was so loose we were sure it was time, and she became hysterical, I started playing around and suggested that she dry off her front teeth and use scotch tape to keep it in. She went crazy, like that was the best idea ever, and proceeded to tape her front teeth with layers and layers of tape. I grabbed the camera and shot away, but she begged me not to post it on the blog. So I made a promise that I wouldn't. They are so cute, it's is next to impossible not to post them, but a promise is a promise, I have to respect it, sigh. Years from now she will be so mad at me, man, I am so bad!

To quote Kevin Bacon when asked what his favorite hobby is: "Embarrassing my children"

Here's todays shot, by the way, it fell out first thing in the morning, and she was all smiles over it, go figure!