This week is going to be fantastic. My assistant Darren and I get to start off the week by showcasing our work at Jefferson High School. Darren is sort of my “Flying Monkey” if you will. I can load him up with business cards and yell “fly my minion” and watch as he takes flight leaving a wake of business paraphernalia trailing behind him. It also doesn’t hurt that at the ripe old age of 4 he has become a bit of a ladies man. I’ve seen him stop women dead in their tracks with just a simple smile. My litlle man is a very social little monkey and I just adore that about him. Darren and I will be hanging out with the students of Jefferson High this Monday answering questions and showing off our work. We are also giving away some free gifts to anyone who schedules a senior portrait appointment at the event. It should be a great time. We also have new studio samples coming in this week. My wife and I attended a photography conference in January and we found new vendors offering a huge selection of printing options. We recently ordered from some of [...]

For those of you who didn’t get our 1000 Facebook posts about it, Clare and I attended ImagingUSA in New Orleans this year.  We had a blast and learned a ton of useful things that we can’t wait to apply to our business.  On our first day in NOLA I had a chance to take an all day hands on lighting class with two of the industries top pros Kibbee Walton and Chuck Arlund. Chuck was featured in this month’s Professional Photographer magazine.  Both instructors had fantastic insights into lighting and allowed us to try out a few of their favorite lighting setups on some very patient models.  You can see a few of the images I took under the direction of Chuck Arlund on the right hand side of this page.            Every day Clare and I attended classes from 7am until 7pm and visited with some fantastic vendors during the breaks.  We found some very exciting products that we are going to be offering at the studio.  Including a line of boutique jewelry that is designed with both women and men in mind.  We will be showcasing a new product on this blog every month so stay [...]

As I sit here and renew my membership to the P.P.A. ( Professional Photographers of America) I couldn’t help but realize that I belong to an organization of people dedicated to keeping an artform alive and helping it survive drastic changes in the digital era.  We are fighting to keep our chosen artistic medium from becoming obsolete and to help it remain relevant to the general public.  As the technology changes it often time effects the entire process of creating images not to mention what can be done to an image after it’s created.  It’s up to the professional photographers of the world to not only test the limits of what can be done but to teach the next generation of photographers what we’ve learned along the way. That’s a huge responsibility that I for one am thrilled to be a part of.   I’ve already begun passing down everything I’ve learned up to this point but photography is one of those endeavors that is constantly changing.  I doubt any photographers out there would ever claim to know it all but even if they did some new technique would crop up and it would be time to go back to school.  I love that there’s always something [...]