Happy Birthday Reilly!

It was my youngest son's birthday a few weeks back and I fogot to blog him. He called me on it the other day....asking why not? So here you are son, Happy Birthday! Hope you enjoyed your good ol fashion bowling party!

DC Nightlife

I'm laying low this week. Had some shoulder repair work done so my creative arm is a little tender. Here are a couple more from the other night's DC Photowalk.

A view of Rosslyn from the Memorial Bridge.

And the majestic Lincoln Memorial.

Night Time Photowalk

My wife and I joined a large group tonight, including my photographer friend Mike Palmer, on a night time photowalk in DC near the Lincoln Memorial. The weather could not have been better as was the company.

Camera specs: Canon 40D, iso 200, f28, 30 sec exposure, using a f28-135 mm zoom set at 44mm.


Camera Specs: Same as above at f2.0 and 10 sec.

Leap of Faith

Through the encouragement of my wife (who put an iMacPro Laptop under the Christmas tree for me) I am making the jump to Mac. It has been rather involved as I had no Mac software to speak of. So there has been a little more investment required to get up and running with transferring my photos and work tools. But I am loving it. Both Adobe Literoom and Photoshop CS4 really sing on this set up. With the purchase of a $30 adapter I can use my very nice HP widescreen from my previous set up. Mac has a great program for using dual monitors and its pretty cool. Really enhances the work flow as does the addition of the Wacom Pen tablet (they say once you go pen tablet you never go back). I am also now backed up with a desktop 1 Terrabyte external hardrive and a rugged portable 250 GB hardrive for on the go. Apple also offers a One on One training program at the Apple Store in Tysons' Corner Mall for one hour a week for a year. I hope to add Mac Guru to my list by the end of the program.

A Little More Petey

After finishing processing my photos for my clients I usually end up with several that did not make the cut for one reason or another. If you try hard enough, you can always find a way to be creative and make the most of your session. My clients version has Peter's birth name at the bottom.

Miss Julia

Miss Julia wasn't so sure she wanted to be photographed last week. But persistents is key. Just when you think you have nothing, you end up with a shot like this. OK ....I'll fess up, the pose was my sisters idea. She was sitting on a stool backwards and looked over her shoulder at me. I cropped it high to get this great angelic look. Camera specs are the same as Peter below. Thanks sis.

Introducing Peter

Gotta love those baby blues. Peter is a vivacious 15 month old young man I had the opportunity to photograph this past week. I first caught him in a casual photo some months back, fell in love with those eyes, and couldn't wait to get him in my studio. It was worth the wait.

Photo specs; Canon 40d, f9.0, 1/60 sec, at 65mm. Two strobes left and right blowing out the white background, one strobe shot through an umbrella to camera left. Enjoy.