Photo 6: Kim and Joey senior session
Taken on June 15, 2010
I don’t like to schedule more than one portrait session in a day.
My style is not anything like the photo booth at Sears. I just don’t work that quickly. Or impersonally. I like to get to know the people I’m photographing a little. Make a connection, if possible. I think it makes for better images.
Sometimes, though, situations come up. You do what you gotta do.
I try to make a couple of trips out to Colorado a year. With June’s trip fast approaching, I contacted my sister. I had already agreed to shoot her senior session. Maybe she has some friends who want to jump on that bandwagon and book some sessions.
What I didn’t count on was it raining almost the entire trip.
One good day. That’s what I was left with. And three senior sessions to shoot. Hello brain melt.
Despite being rushed, a lot of great shots came out of the sessions. This black and white of my sister and her boyfriend is one of my favorites.
Who knew the little girl I once carried on my shoulders during a hike because she didn’t want to walk in the rain would ever be so grown up?
And now this year, she graduates. Crazy sauce.
Photo 5: Christine and Taylor Save the Date
Taken on April 3, 2010
I met Christine and Taylor when I started dating Sam.
Since then, they’ve become good friends. They are quirky, fun, and maybe as much into great food as we are.
When I met them, they were already engaged and also already had a photographer. I tried to forgive them.
They wanted to do something a little different and unique for their Save the Date announcements. They wanted a theme. The announcement was to be inspired by 1920’s and 30’s era playbills and encourage guests to travel to exciting Nebraska for adventure and thrills.
And it required photos.
Knowing that I specialize in creative portraits, they asked if I could help out. Costumes. Makeup. Hairstyles. Sets. Are you kidding? This is right up my alley!
We needed locations. I knew the perfect place: The Rogers House Bed and Breakfast Inn. Built in 1914 and restored to fit the era, the Rogers House perfectly fit the target time period. Better yet, being friends with the owner, I was able to get us full access to the house for a photo session.
With costumes on and makeup and hair done by Sam (did I mention she’s also a fantastic vintage makeup and hairstyle artist?), we embarked on our own adventure.
The day was amazing.
All of the photos turned out great and it’s impossible for me to pick just one favorite. This one, however, of the couple enjoying their morning tea in the sun room before embarking on their adventure, seems to capture all of the feelings we were going for.
Photo 4: Marcia and Jeremy – E-session
Taken on March 6, 2010
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In my mind, photography and experimentation are synonymous.
Whether it’s trying something completely new, or just new to me, it’s the ability to experiment that keeps me passionate.
Even better is when I have some people willing to let me experiment on them. Marcia and Jeremy were just such people, game for some “different” photos for their engagement session.
It turned out to be a good arrangement.
Marcia was pretty excited, but Jeremy had trepidations about this whole photography nonsense. Rather, I think it was a bit of reluctance to be all mushy in front of a camera. Understandable.
So, after the obligatory “mushy” shots, we went to the Capitol Building in Lincoln, Nebraska. As in an indoor location, it can’t be beat. Gothic. Dramatic. Elegant. All in one building.
I talked Marcia up on to the ledge, assuring her that a fall wouldn’t kill her. Probably. Lights placed. Jeremy in position. Wait for tourists to pass. Then snap away.
Photo geeks will recognize this as an “impossible” shot. There’s no way the foreground and background can be in focus. I admit to some post production trickery. Two exposures combined.
For an engagement shot, this isn’t the most romantic photo I’ve ever taken. That’s OK. The purpose was served. I got to play, and Jeremy got some cool, manly, dramatic shots.
Photo 3: “Porridge Papers 3rd Annual Love on the Run”
Taken on February 13, 2010
I’m not a fan of Valentine’s Day. I know. Blasphemy. I’m a wedding photographer, fer gossake!
Hear me out. Romance, I’m all about. I just think Valentine’s Day, like Christmas, has become too commercialized.
If anyone can change my cynical opinion, it’s Porridge Papers. They are the most awesome little paper making and letterpress shop on the planet. No lie.
And Porridge Papers will single-handedly save Valentine’s Day.
Here’s how: Love on the Run.
You go in. You find an open antique typewriter. You compose a message for someone you care about. The typewriter will fight you. It’s older than you are. Keys will jam. Letters won’t line up. There is
no Ctrl-Z. If you’re a perfectionist, this isn’t for you. This is about quirky. This is about thoughtfulness. This is about clever. Put your note in a bottle. Write down the address. Bottle goes in a cute little letterpressed box. Done.
Then on Valentine’s Day, Porridge Papers volunteers race around town to deliver these messages.
Did I mention this is all done for free? Amazing.
In addition to helping to deliver, I took photos of people composing their notes. This one of a little boy intently typing his “love note” is my favorite.
Photo 2: “Capitol in the Mist”
Taken on January 20, 2010
The winter of 2009 / 2010 in Lincoln, Nebraska was a particularly nasty one. Snow dumped onto the city in the beginning of December and didn’t go away until spring. Total accumulation was somewhere just shy of ridiculous. Stupidly cold weather prevented anything from melting. Insult added to injury.
For one strange week late in January the weather became even more insane. A mix of warm and cold temperatures created some intensely foggy nights and mornings. It was too great of an opportunity to miss.
My first stop was the Nebraska State Capitol Building. This wasn’t by plan, but by convenience. My destination was downtown, but the Capitol Building was on the way. What the hell.
I wanted detail. More than I could get with a single wide angle shot. I’d had success with using my 50mm lens for panoramas before. Why not now? Six shots. Three across, two down. Six exposures for each shot. The final image is huge. Over 10,000 pixels wide.
The timing turned out to be perfect. Had I been just a few minutes earlier, the fog wouldn’t have settled in yet. Within about 20 minutes, it was so thick that you wouldn’t have been able to see the top of the building.
Once in a lifetime.
As an aside, this image is one of many of mine featured on the walls of the Capital City Grill and I’ve sold many prints of it. You can buy a print, too. Let me know.
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