Friday, September 5th, 2008
It was a great day today, tiring but lovely, I got a bunch of orders ordered and images sorted, I got my birthday present early (stay tuned for that) I got to hang out for the first time since the workshop with the lovely Aruna B and then met Erin, Carl and Isabella for Erin and Carls engagement shoot. After that I took a few photographs of the Lipizzaner Stallions at the Saline Carnival..
Ask Aruna I could barely find my keys after our afternoon coffee, now I hope I can make it into bed before I fall asleep on the sofa!
so to take us out of the week here is a couple pics of Bruno, some puppy portraits happy furry friday.
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Wanted to share a few frames from our last vaca, it pretty much rocked. Canoeing, hiking, swimming, biking and go cart craziness.. lots of chill in between!
These chairs were just in the middle of nowhere, we found them on a hike.
I don’t know what I was thinking taking the D3 on a kamakazi go cart ride but the pics came out sweet!
HA look at his expression, it was a bit more crazy without me on the other side of him holding him in!
I am so buying a dirtbike and taking it up as a hobby! I felt SO awesome afterwards, much better then riding a bike on the road! They had to talk me off of it and it was my first time ever, just call me a natural!
Ares loves his Uncle Kirk!
We only take the bare necessities camping, and rock band tops the list 
What a great trip!
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Jerry’s Senior session went so smoothly I think he was not at all sure when it was over that we’d even gotten any shots.
but we did
also if you are asking a kid with such a good arm to throw the ball right at you, remember to add, and to the right
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
I get quite a few emails, that then turn into session bookings, about whether or not I shoot boudoir or fine art nude sessions.
I do
The new site will have a boudoir section.. and I’ll try to get more sessions posted. For now here is one of my favorite frames from a recent session.
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
I have been very very productive this week, not as much blogging maybe but the action behind the scenes is smoking. New albums, new products, the new site being worked on, and as always orders and images being finished and sent out.
I do not often take images of clouds. These two frames were taken over a month ago and on vacation at that. I don’t do it because well, they are just clouds right.. but as I was organizing and finishing up for the night I stumbled upon these and thought, maybe it isn’t the clouds being boring.. maybe it’s me who doesn’t always appreciate them. I sometimes get so caught up in doing that I don’t stop to just be.. So I thought, before bed, I’d stop for a moment and appreciate and just sit in that beauty for a moment. Night everyone.
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Happy Furry Friday (I’ve always wanted to post a furry friday post!)
Deenie is Sues sweet girl. It took me a bit to put it together, but every time I called her (Deenie not Sue) I kept thinking I KNOW where that name came from… Sue and I have known each other a long time, it’s been probably easily nine years since I heard her talk about her favorite movie.. a gold star to anyone who can name the movie that had the character this sweet girl was named after. But I remembered Sue
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Monday, August 18th, 2008
In the continuing hair saga, he decided he wanted it shaved bald.
There probably aren’t many parents who tried to talk their four year old (four and a half he would insist) to keep a Mohawk, we’re on that list…
But he’s his own beastie and good for him, he just said “nope I want it bald” so bald it is. You say you want to raise an independent strong thinker, but then you have one.. no it’s a good thing, though I’m still getting used to the bald head.
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
I love the Olympics, I know all the arguments about commercialism, drugging, corruption, and I don’t like how some of the cites deal with finding space for the whole shindig.
But that being said, I still love the Olympics. We’ve been up as late as we can handle watching them live. We check up on ESPN in the morning. Watching the victories is nice, but I don’t care so much about medal counts (I personally love how Canada interviews athletes who compete and end up in 14th place, just as important as athletes that medal). As a huge machine, maybe the Olympics has it’s flaws.
It is on a person by person - a soul by soul basis that I love the Olympics. What is it like to work so hard for something, to push and push - and only you know if you’ve pushed and worked your best - and make it to something like the Olympics? What is it like to say you are the fourth fastest man in the world, the strongest woman in the world, the best at the butterfly, in the top ten women who use a foil? To set a goal and work towards that until you can go forward no longer. It is the simple act of trying for such a goal that I love, it’s hope and it’s will and it’s strength and in many ways it’s vulnerability too. Because really,you are baring your soul for the world to see, to try for something so amazing. So many of us would be to scared to jump into the void and see where we end up.
So philosophy and Sunday musings aside here are a few amazing images I thought were beautiful and that speak to what the Olympic ideal means to me.
so are you watching?
