My very first assignment for Around About Media was taking pictures of a 38 Special concert in Woodstock, GA. I have done some photography in clubs and small venues - always as a "friend of the band" with on-stage and backstage access for most if not allRead more →
I was asked to cover an event for Around Woodstock magazine. The event was the last day of the season for the Cherokee County Aquatic Center when they opened up their outdoor pool and allowed people to bring their dogs. I have never seen more pure joy inRead more →
After downsizing and losing my studio when we moved to Woodstock, GA in November of 2017, I realized that I really needed to brush up on my outside "natural" light skills. Enter Ashleigh Burnette. Ashleigh is a working actress and model whose mother/manager, Lana, reached out toRead more →
On Sunday September 30, 2018 I attended the annual Star 94 Woofstock pet adoption festival to take pictures of rescue dogs for Angels Among Us Pet Rescue. I was sitting on the ground (like I usually do) so one of the Angels’ rescue dogs, Zagnut, could get
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This is Edward the dog and Kim his cat – a bonded elderly pair whose humans died and who had no where to go. My friends at Angels Among Us Pet Rescue took them in as fosters knowing that getting them adopted would be a challenge (to
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This is a short version of the story Mirkwood the Beagle. It is short because we don’t know (yet) of his “happily ever after”. Jill Williams was driving to a friend’s home when she spotted a frail puppy abandoned along Shadowridge Drive, the station reported. She later
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I really do love taking pictures of rescue dogs, and being the photography volunteer coordinator for Angels Among Us Pet Rescue. It is fulfilling, and joyful. Today was a cool (relatively) breezy day July day in North Georgia, and I headed out to Hollywood Feed & Seed
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When my wife and I went to Caye Caulker, Belize in 2016 I did shoot some video as well as my regular travel photography. It took me a long time before I put the video pieces together to actually tell some kind of story, but I finally
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I have 3 GoPro cameras sitting in a box horribly underused. Since I haven’t had a model or portrait photo shoot lately, I decided to dust them off the GoPro Hero Session, attach it to my dogs, and let them run through the dog park. I edited
Read more →In an earlier post about wedding photography frauds I warned about how some “photographers” use the stock photos provided by free website services such as wix.com to represent their work to potential clients. Well it seems the villain in that story, Rick Wiley, has created a GoFundMe
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