Ask yourself these questions: Have you personally been affected by cancer, directly or indirectly? Do you want to find a way to help fight cancer? Do you want to be part of something that allows us to do more help than anyone one of us could individually? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these [...]

A lot of my friends from college are now spread all around the country, even the world.  I’m quite lucky to be surrounded by driven, successful and of course, fun friends and knowing I always have a couch to crash on whenever I get to travel in their part of the world is always a [...]

My allergies have gotten worse as I have gotten older and this spring, the pollen count has just been off the charts.  Simple things like getting the paper and mail will induce a sneezing attack, no matter the brevity of my time outdoors.  And it’s always a bad sign seeing yellow specks settling on the [...]

I finally (as Melissa and Julie may say) made my way down to a S. Atlanta Flickr Group (SAF) shoot last month at Season’s Bistro. With a mix of seeing some friends and meeting new ones, anytime I can be around other photographers to talk photo, life is good. One of the most interesting aspects [...]

So, it’s been a while. Ok, so it’s been almost 2 months since my last post.  I won’t make excuses on what kept me from blogging, but perhaps, it is not an excuse, but mainly quality time with family and friends. But for now, let’s roll back the clock with a little story: Recently, a [...]

Yesterday’s Help-Portrait experience at the Atlanta – DeLowe location had both the expected and the unexpected: expected: 1. give photographs to families who may not have ever had a photograph of them taken unexpected: 1. meeting a fellow college alumnus; we even graduated the same year 2. donated chips and brownies (delicious, I might add) [...]

In a little over 13 hrs, I will be joining forces with thousands of other photographers worldwide to give the gift of a photograph. If you are not part of a group, please don’t let that stop you.  This is not about us as photographers, portfolios and such, but giving what many of us may [...]

Before you think I got clever and thought of that title myself… …I did not. It’s a song by the band Switchfoot.  I like how the song slowly builds up with the drums.  Then the guitars.  Then add in the piano. It had been a few days after the latest rain here and it is [...]

I haven’t been shooting too much lately as I had been traveling to get back some belongings I had stored elsewhere.  After we unloaded all the boxes into the house, I quickly realized that I had too much ‘stuff’.  That began the week-long project of going through mostly everything I own and clearing out what [...]

Random photo trips are a welcomed change to my routine.  This time, I was invited to head north to Chattanooga, TN to the 2009 Head of the Hooch Regatta to see what photo ops would surface. I had never been to the event before, only read/heard about it from people I knew and it was [...]