Irish Eyes are Smiling

Commercial meets Portrait photography - 
This was taken during one of my Commercial/Portrait sessions with Nashville Violins.  They have a wide selection of Irish and Celtic music and they wanted to do a promotion for St. Patricks day.  This is the owner in an appropriately green shirt with green bow. 

Marketing Piece

This is a leave behind piece I've created that I was quite pleased with its result.  The beautiful face in the marketing piece is a gal who was one of my Boudoir clients.  She was stunning to photograph and really photographed well in dramatic lighting that we used during the session.  I'm hoping once I can get this out I will see a rise in some bookings for my Boudoir Sessions.

Finally! It let me load an image.

Finally!  For some odd reason I have not been able to load photographs to my blog.  Today we had a break through! Above image was taken during one of the last snow storms we had in Nashville, TN.  I was able to get to my apt just to catch the last minutes of sun and used the flash as fill to bring out this little snow covered branch.  If you look close enough you can see the snow falling in the background of the photograph.

Going UP!

I don't know why, but I find myself drawn to these type of views of going up to somewhere.  This one was taken at my parents farm in WI.  I grew up staring at this hay elevator for years and years, making sure bales of hay were on there correctly.  I would watch my brother and his friends ride up the hay bales until they would disappear.  I would always hope they would get off before they hit the piece of equipment which was further down on another conveyor that would flip the bales.  This is where this thing sat for most of its career on the farm.  Occasionally it would get hauled behind the barn when we would unload straw and it would also be set by another barn/hay building to unload hay.  

Below is something of the same nature in regards of design.  This photograph was taken at the Chattanooga Aquarium, and I was intrigued by what I saw to a point where the camera was put into position to capture it.

Now...what I was suppose to be doing on My Sunday Morning

I am finishing up the images from a studio session I coordinated.  Between my regular clients, actual work work (yuck-but grateful as that j.o.b. is still paying the bills) and running everywhere in between; below is what I need to be working on and still have two more models to finish.

Here is an image from one of my "day jobs". 

 

Aye!  That poor violin!!  But, it is on its way to someone who wants to learn how to repair instruments.  At least it will be in what I will hope will be loving hands.  Or at least offer someone a learning experience.  I am just very glad I was not at the hand...or foot of those cracks!

My Sunday

Today I got to do something I have not been able to do in quite some time.  Sleep in, gather up my stuff I would need today to work on images, and head out the door for a little hike.  I grabbed some lunch AND I got to process the images on the SAME day!!  Woo!  Hoo!

So, here below is what I have been up to this wonderful, rainy morning.

A look back...

I came across some images I had taken in 2009 while I was out on one of my weekend adventures.  I was out hiking and checking out the new terrain I had recently moved to in Middle TN.  I was more involved in developing my cow series, and below are a few samples from that weekend and series.