Miss Alice

A few to share with my cousin Ann who brought her little angel into the world almost two weeks ago. I had the pleasure of meeting Alice yesterday. What a treat for me! Such sweet smiles already. Can't you just see her grinning at us in this first one?

Happy Day!

I had a good time with my new little friends last week. These guys were fun! First, some big smiles for the camera...

Then some races....

And last, a tickle fight!

I love what I do!

Welcome to the world!

There's something so sweet and simple about this family. Their little guy was born about two weeks ago and so wonderful to photograph. Very peaceful.

New logo for me!!!

So excited about my new logo! Thank you Deena at Mediadia! If you ever need company logos, monograms, business cards, announcements, etc., then she's your girl! Check her out sometime. I highly recommend her! http://mediadia.blogspot.com/

One Fish, Two Fish,

Red Fish, Blue Fish

I caught these two little fishies in the pool the other day.

A very enjoyable way to spend a hot Texas afternoon.

The Beaman Family

I spent an extremely warm evening with a beautiful family this past weekend. They were such good sports to put up with this Texas heat! It was all worth it though as they had some great shots turn out from their session. Here's a sneak peak at some of my favorites...

This last shot makes me smile every time I look at it! It was so funny trying to get this one.

Hope

24 Hour Video Race

Midnight to Midnight

May 18-19, 2007

I had a unique shooting experience recently with Corgan Associates in Dallas. Twelve members of their staff participated in a 24 Hour Video Race. I tagged along and shot behind the scenes documentary style photos. The 24 Video Race was a filmaking competion in which teams of videomakers have 24 hours to write, shoot, edit, and score an original short film. A few more specifics about the race...

Theme: wrong turn

Prop: musical instrument

Location: a flagpole

Line of Dialogue: "You don't owe me anything"

First location....a home in Oakcliff. The main character of their film was a koala bear named Kiki. The thing I love most about this photo is if you look closely you can see John's face (Kiki) in the rear view mirror of the scooter.

Next, we headed to Zane Bridge to shoot some driving scenes with Kiki. Not only do you have a giant koala bear driving a scooter through Dallas but you also have a film crew in the back of a truck driving along side of him while filming. We got some good reactions from people walking and driving by!





Next up....scenes at the Dallas Zoo:

We finished up at the Zoo and then headed back to Corgan to begin editing.

7:00 p.m. and still more editing...

Almost midnight and approaching the deadline quickly. This last shot is one of my favorites from the entire 24 hours. At this point everyone is super tired and ready to be finished. It's gettting down to the wire. There's something about how quiet this picture feels to me. They were tired, I was tired, everyone was so close to finishing.

So how did the film turn out? Amazing! Such a different perspective for me to see the entire process of putting together a film. So glad I got to be a part of this one. And then I headed home to get some much needed sleep....