A blind date in Dayton, TX

Last weekend I drove 7 1/2 hours to shoot a wedding east of Houston. I got this wedding through my internship at Belle's and was accompanied by another member of the Belle's staff. We didn't know a lot about the wedding, other than that the photographer that the couple had hired backed out four days before the wedding without providing a replacement. So you could say it was kind of like a blind date--normally we meet with a client several times before the big day--we didn't really know what we were getting into until we got there.

From this wedding and editing the pictures I have learned one important thing: All this time I've been carefully resizing my images for my blog since they are huge files and won't upload at full resolution. My boss finally told me a secret--this is the important thing in case you didn't figure it out--Photoshop will do it for you. Now he tells me!

I also have advice for anyone who reads my blog and is planning a wedding: If you decorate your church with tall candles, on tall pillars, every other pew, down the entire aisle, your photographer will think you hate them.

Now for the pictures:

Current craziness...

This week has been and still is very busy. Over the weekend, I shot a wedding in Houston with Belle's and the first image shown here is my first critiquable image from that event. Let me know what you think. I like the mystery of it but I'm also arguing with my self that it's too dark.

The second image is for the Shinnery Review's ARTiculation contest. Since Kalyn and I are co-editors this year--and since we cooked up the contest--we figured we should enter. The rules are that the finished work has to combine art and poetry (or literature of another kind) in a visual way. The artist can accomplish this by any means they choose. We decided to work together to illustrate a poem Kalyn wrote. I took and edited the pictures and made the mock up to Kalyn's specifications. Kalyn was the model and will mat the finished prints into the layout shown here. Again, let me know what you think.

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Fat Tuesday....part one

I've begun work on my last art photography project: the project to end all projects, the capstone piece, the grand finale. So, anyway. This project is going to highlight a weekly night close to my heart...Fat Tuesday! Fat Tuesday--name stolen from the Mardi Gras festival--is a night set aside for my friends and me to cook dinner for each other and catch up on the week's events. There are six of us on this weekly rotation, each week a different house, cook and recipe. And ALWAYS desert. So my project is not only the photography, but the display of the photography and for this subject I am making a photographic table--more details and pictures to come. Since it's such a time intensive project, it's the last thing due in the class and we've already been working on it one week. Good luck to me and my classmates!!

Here is the first installment of pictures for the table. These long images will be mixed in with images of different sizes--all about food and us! I still have mine and Kalyn's film strip image to complete but take a look at what I've got so far and, as always, please let me know what you think!

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