Bathroom Blogging!!

So I am checking out this whole blogging by telephone thing. It's cool, except the person who just pissed didn't wash his hands. Anyways, this new toilet paper is the bees knees, check the texture! That should really get the chocolate off the door!

Guantanamo Bay, and my house...

Rain, rain, go away... and take your shitty hurricane with you! Ike has brought me house guests... and rain! Rain is bad for taking photos, guests are great for it. Since I want to take photos this weekend, I will try to pull from my VERY captive audience to make myself happy.

On another note, I am building the greatest cover song playlist of all time!!! MUAHAHAHA! At least it's the only one I know of. If you want to give it a listen, it's here.

Child labor and Kathy Lee...

Is it just me or do you cringe when your child comes home with crap to sell for school?? So, you tell my child that he/she can get a prize for selling the most junk for your school? When do you ask me if I want you to tell my child things like this? I think I should start a fund raiser program to pay the psych bills when children (and parents) try to sell a bunch of crap to get the shiny new bike and fail!

Ian, whatever it is that you want out of that stupid catalog, we will buy for you after you do your chores.

That said... he is now a participant... like it or not. Go buy something if you can. here

If you dont see Ian's inmate ID (his seller id) make sure you enter it before you buy, it's jr83859

Senior Photoshoot 9-6-2008

Today, I shot Jaymi for the second time. The first time, she was modeling with a bad ass chopper build by Quest Custom Bikes in Denton. This time, they are her High School Senior photos. You could tell that she was a bit more comfy with me this time after seeing how her first shots came out.

I love doing High School Senior shoots. Most of these kids don't want traditional photos. They want something that makes them feel all rock star inside. Sure, let's get the traditional stuff out of the way, so you can send them to the grandparents... then, let's get crazy and shoot you the way you should be shot! More from this session here.

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! :-)