Things have continued to be busy around here as the year zooms toward 2010. I feel like I just finished the 2009 Sixthman Cruise season and yet on Wednesday I fly to Florida for the first cruise for the new season… This weekend, I will be the official photographer for the Graceland sponsored Elvis Cruise. Pictures will be posted shortly after I return next week…
Over the past month… As I continue to define my work and vision for my career… I am constantly looking for new adventures and opportunities. As I try to plan out the year ahead… I am thinking of changing one major aspect of my offerings.
What prompted this change is recently helping my friend Derek with his proposal and wedding gift to his wife Val. I actually did the same project of sorts for my friend’s Bridget and Andy. What I did was to be able to photograph each couple’s engagement proposal paparazzi style… and then create a piece using the photos from that special moment. It was awesome to witness the big moment and made for a great gift on the big day.
With that said, I have had many friends ask me to photograph their weddings. While I am still not planning to shoot a lot of weddings… I am opening up myself to unique and truly special wedding photography. First things first… Before I would even consider a wedding gig… we would have to have an in-depth conversation regarding what you are looking for from documenting your day. I will also say that I would shoot with a fellow photographer – so you would have two shooters… A couple weddings I am considering are destination events so you have an idea of what I am looking for. Let me know if you think we might have the right fit.
Another project that I recently worked on, was the Bar Louie 2010 Calendar. Bar Louie is a chain of taverns around the country and this is the second year I have done the photography for their calendar. The final files have been submitted and it should be in stores soon… Once it is, I will post more here…. but below is a tease from the day of shooting.
I am currently looking for new projects and gigs. If you have a project that you would be interested in me working on… Please do not hesitate to contact me to discuss.
October 12th, 2009
Is it really already October 12? I don’t know where time is going… But the good news is with the help of the excellent company Acapella 360, my website is getting better by the day… This is my official first post from the new BLOG and hopefully in the coming days and weeks I will be posting more… from behind the scenes details on recent and upcoming projects. I will be also periodically doing promotions and giveaways… so stay tuned. And most of all, let me know what you think of the new website… I need your honest feedback…. what you like, what you dislike…. what you would like to see more of, etc. I will select one comment of feedback to win FREE PRINTS…. so start sharing.
I have just spent the past couple hours working on my website and blog… and what can I say…. it is still a never-ending work in progress. I am truly amazed at the people who can blog daily… and stay on top of this. To me, it is a challenge and I am working on it. I have gotten in the very bad habit lately of just using my TWITTER updates as blog posts… As of this weekend, I am taking down that option and if you want to see what I am doing, right now… FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER. I am also planning to work on posting longer, more indepth blogs here. Hopefully, due to excellent work from Acapella 360, the company that helped me launch my new website… I will have a better BLOG in place in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, check out my FACEBOOK page and become my friend to see what I am up to. I am hoping to book a bunch of gigs in October…. so if you need something photographed… Let’s discuss.
Let me know what you think…
September 23rd, 2009
uploaded pics to facebook from Andrew Bird, SK6ERS, Carbon Leaf & more. Editing more photos today and planning the rest of the week. Ideas?
Photo shoot # 2 of 3 this week at a retirement home in the burbs honoring World War II veterans. Very inspiring to be around true heroes!
Thanks to Betsy Shepherd for hiring me to shoot and document these very fun events honoring the vets. It was all based on a ceremony to launch the photography of an excellent photographer named Tom Sanders. Check out his amazing work HERE. He has been traveling the country photographing WWII vets.
Here are a couple of my favorite shots I captured during the events:
September 13th, 2009
Just posted U2 shots from last nights show to Facebook. Heading back to Soldier Field to enjoy the show tonight on field!
