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I had the honor yesterday of shooting Josh’s senior pics. Josh will be a senior next year at Western Boone High School. We had a great time. I alway loves to capture the personality of the individual when I am shooting. So, I asked Josh what he loved and he said…”The Farm”. So I headed over to the farm in Thorntown, In. and we captured a bunch of great images of him on the farm. Here are a few from our session. I know you’re going to love them Josh!!!
Here is another “Project 52″ self portrait. If you haven’t been following along I’ve been trying to do a self portrait a week for the entire year. You can check out the earlier pics here. Here is a little back story on this pic. While growing up I had an old guitar that I goofed around with. I never got very good. I did play back-up for our church band for a VERY short time. My guitar actually got stolen out of the church…hmmmm, I think someone was trying to send me a message. LOL. Well, my oldest son loves music and wants to learn to play so we bought him this guitar and he’s been messing around with it. As you can tell it isn’t a full size guitar but it works great for his hands. I shot this at 9pm with three off camera flashes. One camera left slightly behind me. One camera right slightly in front of me and one on a boom arm above me. This was shot at 1/30 at f8 at ISO 100. Let me know what you think …..and…..ROCK ON!!!
Julie and I go to an awesome church in Lebanon, In. called Freedom Church. We’ve been going there for about a year now. One of the many things that Freedom does well is it’s “Small Group” ministry. Last winter we decided to jump in with both feet and we led a group that was a game night for families. We got to know so many awesome people and we had a real blast. Well, when summer rolled around I decided to lead a group for those interested in photography. We have been going strong for a month now and have been having a great time. We’ve got people on all different skill levels so it has been challenging. Each week we have talked about different aspect of photography from camera basics, composition, lighting, etc. Each week we have and assignment and we’re supposed to bring back samples to share. Leading the group has been so good for me because in the process of teaching and sharing I find myself learning. Well, below I’ve attached two quick pics from our group. One is a snap shot of our group and the other is a picture of Emma who so graciously agreed to be out model last night. When we set this shot up it was about 7pm. We used two off camera flashes one on camera right in front of Emma and one on camera left slightly behind her acting as a hair light. The camera was set to 1/125 at f8. I think Emma did a great job as a model. If you are interested in our small group or in Freedom Church just drop me a note. Our group runs for one more month.
Last week was my oldest sons Birthday. He turned 11 years old. I have to admit I wasn’t super thrilled about it. Seeing my kids grow up gives me some serious mixed emotions. On the one hand I’m as proud of can be of both of my sons. I thank God every day for the honor of being their Dad. I believe being a Dad is the most important thing that I do. On the other hand seeing them getting older just reminds me that time is slipping a way and makes me a bit sad. Well, last week for Gavyn’s B-day we took him camping at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore with my parents. We had a blast. If you’ve never been to the dunes then your missing out. They are beautiful, clean and if you live in Indiana….close. If you haven’t been…..GO!!! I’ve attached a few pics of the boys to give you a little taste of our mini-vacation and B-day festivities. Enjoy. (PS. these were taken with and iPhone)
Happy Birthday to you!!!!
New fishing pole….he LOVES to fish
Electronic Manopoly…hours of fun!!
The beach was AWESOME!!!
Showing off his muscles….LOL
The B-day boy
