Posts Tagged ‘North Carolina’

Fight Club

February 19, 2013 | 2 comments

When my friend Aiden told me that he had started boxing at a gym, ideas immediately started spinning in my head for how to photograph him there. With some persistence and gentle persuasion, I was able to get him to agree to some retro-themed portraits, complete with suspenders, flat cap, and moustache. As an added […]

Lions and Tigers and… Bobcats, Oh My!

January 13, 2013 | No comments yet

Did you know that there are more pet tigers in the United States than there are left in the wild? I didn’t, either. I learned this and many other startling facts at North Carolina’s Carolina Tiger Rescue, a sanctuary for mistreated, abandoned, and otherwise displaced exotic cats. It’s illegal to own a Bobcat or squirrel […]

Fog

January 12, 2013 | No comments yet

It was unusually foggy yesterday afternoon and this morning, so I took the opportunity to get some ethereal photographs of the weather.

Photographing Things the Wrong Way

January 8, 2013 | No comments yet

There are some rules, written and unwritten, about photography. Longer focal lengths and wide apertures are for portraits, wide angles and small apertures are for landscapes. There are reasons for these rules, of course–with portraits you want to emphasize your subject and remove distraction, and with landscapes you want everything in focus and often want […]

Not Everything Needs to be “Beautiful”

December 11, 2012 | No comments yet

The wintertime is a favorite time for me to photograph. You have to dig a little deeper, you have to work a little harder. The days are short, the nights long. In North Carolina, the heat and humidity are gone and I feel like I can breathe, that I can move around comfortably. The colors […]

Photographers Persist

November 27, 2012 | One comment

Also, photographers are (generally) patient. I read a great little article by Thom Hogan recently, in which he explained that landscape photographers are data collectors as much as they are photographers, and that lots of observations over days or weeks or months lead to the great photos that they create. There is always chance and […]

Scott + Noelle – Simply Love

November 20, 2012 | No comments yet

It is no secret that I am a big fan of the cooler months in North Carolina. Starting in late September or early October, I start to feel like I can venture outside again without being oppressed by humidity or eaten by mosquitoes. So it’s no surprise that I had a great time venturing out […]

These Are Exciting Times!

October 9, 2012 | No comments yet

I have thankfully been busy photographing weddings and families recently, so the blog has been a lot less technical and more about what really matters: the images and the experiences. Still, I was out this morning with my Olympus OM-D, just photographing for fun, and wanted to express my love for that little camera! There […]

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