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Italy or Indiana? You decide with Michaela Orme
Read more: Italy or Indiana? You decide with Michaela OrmeHaving just seen a variety of portraits from the San Benedetto del Tronto countryside, I was envious of what luck Italians have to be surrounded by gorgeous scenery. Shortly thereafter, on a random drive in rural Indiana, I realized just how beautiful our wheat fields were this time of year. Perhaps I had nothing to…
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Fly the Friendly Skies: O’Hare Photoshoot
Read more: Fly the Friendly Skies: O’Hare PhotoshootTowards the end of winter I bought a plane ticket to nowhere to gain access to O’Hare Airport. While inside, I took the opportunity to do a photoshoot with the absolutely lovely Shei Ayala Madrid. We showed up right before security closed down for the night, with flights scheduled to leave at 6AM. Once inside,…
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Thinking outside the box, inside the box.
Read more: Thinking outside the box, inside the box.I miss being a kid and perhaps using photography the old me channels the young me. With this shoot, I was trying to capture the imagination of youth that seems to dissipate with age. Or maybe I was just trying to have fun with a cardboard box and fog machine. Let me know which you…
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The Future was Then
Read more: The Future was ThenI don’t know what to say. We live in a world where anything is possible and that is perfectly manifested by the location of my most recent shoot with Helen Mills. Located near Carlisle, OH is one of the few remaining Futuro houses in the world. A friend happened to be passing by, snapped a…
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Studio Experimentation with Helen Mills
Read more: Studio Experimentation with Helen MillsThe more I photograph, the more I see room for improvement. I want to consider myself “good,” but how do I define that? I want shots that stop people in their tracks. I want a single image that causes someone to bring a friend over and say, “look at that!” These shots are rare, yet…
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Handle with Care
Read more: Handle with CareWith winter setting in and the pandemic making a tough time of year all that more tough, Janel and I set about coming up with a unique photoshoot idea. If you follow the same hashtags I follow on Instagram, you are inundated with milk bath photography. I’ve found the idea intriguing, but not quite my…
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Revisit, Reset, Rewards and Regrets
Read more: Revisit, Reset, Rewards and RegretsRevisit This photoshoot, from earlier this summer, was an unintentionally stressful day. Spending time photographing Helen Mills is usually one of the best joys in life and this shoot was supposed to be the same. Unfortunately, my eagerness to experiment was to be its undoing. At least that’s how I felt in the days and…
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Aubrey Johnson Seniors – Part Deux
Read more: Aubrey Johnson Seniors – Part DeuxIf you’ve been following along with my blog, you may have noticed some foreshadowing at the end of my previous article. I had spent the day with Aubrey Johnson, taking some great photos of her at unique locations, but they were almost exclusively done indoors. We could see in the forecast that good weather was…
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The Future is Female – Senior Portraits with Aubrey Johnson
Read more: The Future is Female – Senior Portraits with Aubrey JohnsonSometimes you schedule a session far in advance and when the day comes, the weather is hot garbage. Well, perhaps in this case, it’s better to describe the day as cold garbage because the temps were freezing and it was incredibly windy. To top it off, the pictures were being taken out of town in…
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Aletta Bridal Wedding Dress Shoot
Read more: Aletta Bridal Wedding Dress ShootLafayette photographer, Rachel Sitarz from Bohemian Lights Photography, was kind enough to invite me to head to Chicago for styled shoot with Aletta Bridal. I am not a wedding photographer but the chance to spend the day shooting models in an urban environment was too good to pass up. As luck would have it, a…
