Beach Birthday

Is there a better way to celebrate a milestone birthday than to hole up in a McMansion on the beach with your closest friends and family? If there is, I'd certainly like to know. This group was so full of life. It's great to be in such company.

Kim, darling, you look fabulous! Keep up whatever you are doing! ;)

Lock In

Be sure to check back soon because I will spill the dirt on the 20 hour Artist Lock In held at Eye Level Art last night.

Something Old into Something New

It's the height of wedding season in Charleston. I have been attending a lot of weddings lately, camera in hand... ready for action. But as luck would have it, it seems that all weddings have the same action... different faces, same pictures.

Like many situations we photogs find ourselves in, after a while you begin to think to yourself... "If I have to take one more boring, ordinary picture of this scene just so the client will be happy, I won't be able to look at myself in the mirror tomorrow."

So at the reception of a recent assistant gig, I had a little fun with the dance floor. I chose the dance floor because, in my opinion there's no image more awkward than Uncle Ernie frozen in mid Chicken Dance.

For these I created a bit of motion with reduced shutter speed. It's tricky to balance capturing just enough focus with just enough motion to convey the scene, but keep it intact. It's prone to a LOT of throw away images, but I think that the reward is well worth it.

These are my best so far, as I fine tune the details. I'd love to know if they are only interesting to the easily bored photographer or if this technique is viable as an alternative to the typical static dance shots... So, comment away...

Pictures in the Park

She is sooo cute! I admit it... I have turned into one of those people.... you know the kind; You say hello and ask them how they are, they launch into a story about Fido's latest antics and provide a picture to illustrate....

haha

Sunshine Wedding

Some people seem to go through life with the sun always shining on them. I love meeting people like that because I feel that when I am near them, the sun is shing on me too. Ashley & Clay were that sunshine couple. I knew it before I even met them by the buzz around their arrival for their nuptuals.

How appropriate that the sunshine couple chose black white and yellow as their colors on this sunshiniest of days. Enjoy a few suny snaps of the day: