Jennifer and Andy

Saturday, Jennifer, Andy and I went trecking through a very gray Spring Hill in search of the right place to make some engagement photos. We ended up at a lotation that I had shot previously and liked very much. It looks like it was, at one time, both a home and a store.

Jennifer and Andy were so much fun to work with. They had me cracking up the whole time. To say they're quick witted would be a bit of an understatement. In spite of that humor, I still managed to get them with a straight face, once or twice...

If this shoot was any indication of what's in store for me, I CAN'T WAIT for the wedding!

April & Bryan

Bright and early Saturday morning, I met April and Bryan (and April's Dad!) in beautiful downtown Nashville for their engagement shoot. While I think all of us were suffering from some early morning lag, we managed to drag ourselves to the top of the Shelby Street walking bridge. After some fun technical difficulty (for the record, I'm only buying name brand batteries from now on), we got cranking.

I knew we got some great stuff, but sitting down and looking through them was still a surprise. There is some great stuff in there! There's nothing more fun than getting a surprise in the darkroom (or on the computer, in this case).

April and Bryan will say their "I do's" in March 08. Stay tuned to see her bridal portraits sometime soon...

Oh, and feel free to check out the entire gallery here!

Gary Carter Joins Journey Ecclesia

I had a fast shoot with Gary Carter, the new missions/ministries pastor at Journey Ecclesia. Gary is a great guy and was very easy to shoot. I broke one of my cardinal rules about shooting. That being, NEVER shoot someone in front of a plain brick wall. I broke the rule because THIS wall was actually more interesting than 99% of the brick walls out there. After a bit, we turned the setup around 180 degrees and shot against a pretty great red wall. All together, I'm pretty sure that the actual shooting took less than 60 minutes.

Welcome, Gary!

Autumn McEntire Shoot

Gee whiz, things are just jumpin' around here! Today I got to spend the day doing a second shoot with the beautiful and talented Autumn McEntire. Our first shoot (about six months ago) yeilded some great stuff. Stuff that was easily some of my best work to date. I think we may have blow the top off that today.

We started in "the gulch" in downtown Nashville, then moved to a beautiful little church off Charlotte. We finished up shooting in Dotson's doing two pretty dramatically different looks in one setup. They're closed at the moment while they make improvements to their kitchen (I can't wait!), so now was a perfect time.

I can't wait to see this stuff printed up in a CD! Check out the entire gallery here.

New Seed of Sudan

I’m part of a fantastic group of (primarily) men called the New Seed of Hope. It’s an organization dedicated to helping South Sudan and the rest of sub-Saharan Africa… well… I’ll let their words speak for themselves:

“To bring hope to the millions of people in East and Central Africa, especially widows and orphans, who are victims of poverty, famine, tribal conflict, wars, genocide, disease, HIV/AIDS, and internal displacement.”

The big project that I’m a par t of is a documentary film about the “Lost Boys” of Sudan. Rather than give you a drawn out explanation here, please go to www.newseedofsudan.com to learn more. Periodically, I’ll post new images I get while working on the film. Currently, you can see several of them on my home page, or you can go HERE for more shots from our last filming date.

Please pray for South Sudan and her Lost Boys.

First Shoot with Terry Weaver

Terry and I had a great time traipsing around downtown Nashville finding places to get the right photo. We started on 21st and had a FANTASTIC lunch of sushi, then headed off to the Scarritt Bennett Center to use their great architecture. At least 5 or 6 people made comments wishing Terry good luck on his wedding day... Apparently only grooms are ever photographed there. After a couple, we stopped explaining that Terry was already married, these were just headshots. Sometimes it's easier to just say "thank you."

We wandered around more of the city, but eventually settled in the gulch area where we got some more great photos and headed home.

To see the best of the shoot click here!

PS - Terry is a speaker at youth events nation wide. You can find out more about him on his site WWW.TerryTheWeaver.Com.

Photo Updates

Just wanted to make sure everyone checks the homepage. I've put up some new photos. Those of you that frequent the this blog will recognize most of them, but there are still a couple of surprises...

New Shots include Dan Trippie, bridal portraits for Jessica Di Toro, and a small non-human friend snatched off a wall by my friend Will.

Enjoy!