Hey honey! The electric bill is here!

Well, not really. I was checking the mail the other night (not something that I normally do) and I thought... "you know what would be cool?" ... yes, I have conversations like that with myself. I grabbed some gear, and talked the wife into being my model.

SB800 in the mailbox at 1/2 power, SB600 to camera right at 1/16 in an Alzo softbox.

Moving right along ...

Saturday, I went on a photo walk with about 10 other area photographers. The idea was to meet up, take some photos in a few areas of Frisco, meet up for dinner, and look at what we had all shot that day. Sounds geeky, huh!? After a few minutes, I realized that I was sort of "out of my element." Everyone was walking around taking photos of the usual stuff - flowers, bushes, buildings, a fountain, and some mushrooms that seemed to have popped up all over the place. Not to say that there aren't cool photos of this kind of stuff... matter of fact, a lot of the pictures they took were very nice. I just had something else stuck in my head. After about a half an hour, I called my friend Korey who was on his way.

Once Korey got there, we walked around looking for stuff to shoot and making general comments about our surroundings. Then we saw it... a port-a-potty! What a great start to a photograph! It's unconventional, and semi-transparent (at least when you light it up with a couple of strobes at full power). It will look cool when we nuke the bitch with a few strobes... our general M.O. We dropped our gear, looked for props in the nearby trash can, cussed, laughed, and looked like complete idiots to our photographer buddies. The others on the walk stopped, pointed, scratched heads, and watched carefully as this blue port-a-potty lit up like a night club. You could tell they though we were crazy. After a couple of minutes, we had some (what we could tell) decent shots and were on our way to find something else to shoot.

Korey is a huge help. He knows a lot of crap and we share pretty much the same vision. My photography is about to get a whole lot mo' pimp. Watch.

8/23/2008 Baby Kaileigh shoot

Babies wobble and some times fall down. Kaileigh is super-cute, and uber-wiggly. Some pretty cute action shots came from this shoot. Can't wait to do it again when she gets older... and less wiggly! :-)