bubbies

i've been taking pictures of this little dude since he was less than a year old, i'm pretty sure he is the most photogenic child i've ever hung out with. we are buddies.
caught this yesterday when i was shooting his family's, family portrait.

and thats his sister dancing in the background.

Sarah&Josh = Engaged

these two came down to cincinnati for their engagement shoot. we had alot of fun. i don't require all of my dayton clients to come to me of course, it just worked out nicely because we shot in a park that they actually considered getting married in, so it was neat for them, and i'm still exploring around here so it gave me a good excuse to scout. i'm really looking forward to photographing their vows and celebration.








i was really excited about this sign grave yard that a friend of mine had told me about awhile ago. i searched for awhile the day before to find it for this shoot. i didn't get as many shots there as i wanted to, but it was still fun, i'm sure i'll end up back there pretty soon, it has so much potential!

teaser

josh and sarah are getting married next month.

i have more to post, this is just a teaser until i get the chance to post the rest.

also, if you think its possible to get sick of this face, we need to have a chat.

:)

the great white north

i drove up to ontario last week to spend four days to see a very good friend of mine. we have one of those relationship where it doesn't matter what we do, we're just glad to be together, as cheesy as that sounds, its the truth. i am very blessed to have her. one of the nights i was there, she had some friends over and we had a bonfire in her back yard.

the evening before i left, we were discussing what to do. rachael asked me if i wanted to go to niagara falls. i was there when i was in jr. high, and only saw the american side so i said sure why not. when i agreed i had not thought about the tourism that surrounds that place. needless to say we enjoyed the walk, and did a bit of making fun of the nonsense. favorite moment of the evening: rachael and i walking down the sidewalk, a guy in front of a club, with fliers says "hey ladies, you want to come to a free party tonight?" we said no and kept walking... he replied with "but i'll be there!" rachael turned around, looked him in the eye and said "HAH. HAH. thats tempting!!" turned back around and kept walking. behind us we hear "well i thought it was." we spent several minutes afterwards discussing how it was that we looked like the type of people that wanted to party. we eventually decided that they didn't care what you were dressed like, they just want you to buy drinks. on the walk back, i pulled out of my camera and my fisheye, set my iso at 1600 (which i was actually quite impressed with the overall performance, i usually don't go above 800 with my digital just because i think it'll turn out really noisy, they didn't, just grainy, as they are supposed to be at that speed.) and shot a ton while walking... hope you enjoy... i know i did

the drive both up and back was quite enjoyable, i really do enjoy traveling, especially driving, by myself... i stopped in pittsburgh for afew days on the way home, stay tuned....

if you have a myspace account, you can "add me" and enjoy quite abit of my work here i finally got it up and going, i still have new and old stuff to add to it...

i have plenty to post here too. you might already know that my summers are usually very full of touring and ministry work. while i did not tour full time this summer, i did some of it, plus second shooting a couple out of town weddings, a family reunion type event (where i got to take a 5 generation picture! my great grandma down to my nephew) and some road tripping of my own. i will be shooting and doing ministry with no one underground and stand true ministries this weekend at purple door music festival in pa, then moving. but admist all of that, i will post soon. actually, i'm going to upload my photos from my trip to canada and pittsburgh this past week right now... hope all is well!