Metro Montage VIII

Just a quick little reminder that The Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art's Metro Montage VIII Juried Art Exhibition will be opening this Saturday (12th) Evening at 6pm. This will be the third time I have entered and have been selected to participate in this exhibition. Normally there is a theme for the exhibition, but this year there was none. As always though, there is some very talented and gifted artists of all mediums. I have taken a couple of years off from exhibiting and selling my artwork. Actually my last solo exhibition was of all my Olympic Sports Art held at the United States Olympic Headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 2005. This being an Olympic year always brings back fond memories of covering the Olympics for Sports Illustrated as well as the Olympic Committee. In any event, here is the one and only image I submitted for the Metro Montage. I hope you enjoy it and that you'll come and check out all the work from the other local area artists.

More from our Horse Whisperer...

Here are a few more images of Larry and his Babies. The images obviously do not do his work justice, but watching him interact and work with his horses is really amazing. Maybe his key is those carrots, but I don't think so. Hopefully in a future posting I'll have some images of my kids riding with Grandpa Larry and Killian Red and/or Spirit. Until then, these will have to suffice...

Family Fun Time...

Yes, yes I realize I have been bad again keeping up with my blog and staying up to date. Honestly though, I do not post images of all my sessions unless they have agreed to allow me to do so. So with that in mind, please know that I usually love to "tease" my clients with images from their sessions, I also love to save the major emotional impact for the viewing session in their home. This way they get to view the images in a beautiful large way as opposed to a fairly tiny image on my blog. So there you have it.

I wanted to share some portraits that I created of my father in law over the 4th of July weekend. Larry is an incredible horseman and artist. His love and passion is his horses of which he has two; Spirit and Killian. He has such an amazing way with horses that is so fun to witness. He is what my wife (his daughter) and I call our horse whisperer. He routinely hauls horses across the state and the country for that matter for his various clients, but riding his "babies" in the mountains of Georgia or Kennesaw Mountain is where he really has fun. He also recently got to take Killian swimming in a lake in Newnan, Georgia. From all reports, Killian could hardly contain himself. As for the artist aspect of Larry, all you have to do is look at the buildings and structures he creates with his hands. The man can build, fix and create anything you can imagine. Part of his handywork can be seen of the barn in the portrait of himself and Killian. By the way, Killian is the reddish of the two horses and favors the color of the beer bearing its name...

Peachtree Road Race Posters Available Again!

Its about that time again. Peachtree Road Race time that is. And again, I've been asked to make the information available for purchasing my posters, Limited Edition Artist Proofs as well as notecards. As many of you know, the Peachtree Road Race is one of if the premier 10 K Races in the world and is the largest 10 K in the world with 55,000 competitors.

The notecards are two each of four different images and come of course with envelopes. The Limited Edition Artist Proofs come signed and numbered but with no other text such as on the posters. The easiet way to order is directly from my website. Simply click on the "shop" button and type in: "Peachtree". Please contact me with any questions.

HS Senior Portrait Session...

I had the pleasure yesterday of photographing my real estate agents daughter, Natalie, for her Senior Portraits. She is a really sweet, outgoing girl who is setting to take the world by storm. I had a really fun time creating portraits of her and she was so very easy to work with. I tend to photograph many seniors especially this time of year and often times they take a little while getting comfortable. She was the exact opposite and was up for any location I suggested. All of this and the girl rarely seemed to blink; at least when I had my camera trained on her. Out of the whole session I think I trashed one image because of a blink. Although I only spent a relatively short time with her, she seemed to have a very similar personality as her Dad which is cool, calm and relaxed. By the way, Happy Fathers Day, Dan! Look for these pages to be full of more HS Seniors in the coming days and weeks as my schedule is getting packed due to some of the specials I am running. Please call or email me for more information! Here are a few images from Natalie's session...

Heat Relief for the Kids...

As we all know far too well, the heat has been extremely oppressive much too early this summer. We enjoy going down to our subdivision pool but when my kids want to cool off before or after dinner and time is a bit fleeting to run down to the big pool, we pull out the cozy little blow up pool and have a blast. I can cook food on the grill and keep an eye out to help control the craziness thats sure to ensue. My daughter Amelia will be 4 the end of September and has taken some swimming lessons but is not quite there yet. She is always more than happy to drag her little brother in and give him some tips while he's kicking and screaming. She definitely seems to take great pleasure in tormenting him half the time and loving on him the rest. She will get her paybacks, I'm confident. Anyway, I don't get to do it enough because of my schedule, but love to pull out the camera and create some fun portraits in a nice relaxed situation. The toughest part is getting them to stop for half a second to look at the camera. So enjoy another glimpse into my life's eye's...

Oh, oh so tardy...

For the first time this year I managed to get really, really behind with my posts. Things have been absolutely crazy which I know is a very poor excuse, but its all I got. So I promise to be more diligent in keeping up to date with not only postings from my current and recent portrait sessions but also other relevant news. This will include some sports samples that clients have requested, the charity work that I'm involved in and also current happenings such as art exhibits that I'm participating in.

Let me first begin with my portrait session from yesterday. This was a session for a 14 month old boy, Bennett. He was absolutely filled with energy and curiosity and was quite interested in all of my lighting and camera equipment. From what his folks told me, that is par for the course and he is fascinated with all of his fathers toys and gadgets as well. Mr. Bennett had a great personality and seemed to warm up to the camera very quickly. On occasion he would flash me one of those deadly stares when I took away my camera before he was done looking at the portrait of himself that I just created. His parents, Amy and Michael were incredible. They were up for each and every idea I had and it made for what I call a perfect session. I was really pleased with the results and hope they will be too. I'm just going to give them a very small sampling of the portraits I created yesterday. I will be following up in the days ahead with the info and images I mentioned beforehand. Enjoy for now!!