Home of the Fae!

With every summer season comes my favorite activity of the year - - - Renaissance Faire! A few years ago I wouldn't be caught dead at Renaissance Faire but now I can't get enough. My absolute favorite part is the Faerie Glen! I could sit in the Glen all day and I usually do! So this post is just going to be pics of Faeries!


I usually just take pictures of the faeries all day but I have been known to actually venture out and get pics of the other wonderful parts of the Faire. Those will be coming in other blogs.

Until we meet again!

Walkabout - Animals Edition!

As promised, here are a collection of pictures of our animals friends taken over the course of the past several months. Enjoy them!

















Until we meet again!

Hello May!

It was an absolutely gorgeous day out today and it just screamed walkabout! So I give you a May Day Walkabout - People Edition!


















Stay tuned for the Animal Edition!

Until we meet again!

West Virginia Walkabout

I've been a bad blogger! April was a terribly busy month! The first half of the month was pretty much ruled by the tax deadline. The rest of the month was dedicated to taking care of everything that I neglected the first half of the month and trying to get it all done prior to leaving for our mini vacation in West Virginia. So, sorry about that!

That said, my wife and I went to West Virginia to visit her extended family and we took our cameras with us. As luck would have it every day we were there was gorgeous. We had perfect blue skies, 90 degree + temperatures, and nature at her finest! All of the flowers were in bloom, the trees sprouted their leaves, and all the wildlife was out in full force. Here's a small sample of our trip.

This is an old shot tower where they made shot for ammunition in wars past.


It just wouldn't be a river in the south without the ever present fishermen.


The varieties of flowers and trees in bloom were just a color extravaganza!


I just loved this particular scene from my vantage point.


Of course I'll limit pictures of my wife to just this one just to spare you the hundreds that I usually take.


This is just across the street from my wife's grandmother's house. I could have sat on the porch and stared at this all day!


And I'll leave you with this beautiful sky!


Until we meet again!

Hell Has Frozen Over . . . Phone Cam Pics

So, here I stand with my tail between my legs. I've been whining about how useless phone cams are for years. In fact, I've tried unsuccessfully to find a phone that doesn't have a camera that still has what I need a phone to have. Then out of the blue I start using the phone cam on one of my phones. Then I start to use the cam on my other phone. Yes I have 2 cell phones. One is for business and the other is for personal use. They both have cams and the difference in the cams and the pics they produce is significant enough to use them both for different situations. Now, the tail between the legs part . . . I'm having a blast! Taking and posting phone cam pics to my Tumblr blog has become a daily event for me. Sometimes I post dozens of pics a day. And by doing this I have discovered the necessity for having and using a phone cam!

When I first started in the photography world I was brutally hard on myself. Every picture had to be perfect! Everything needed to be centered, it needed to be razor sharp, the coloring had to be dead on, it had to be "interesting", etc. If everything wasn't up to my ridiculous standards the picture got erased. I could just kick myself for all of the fantastic images that went into the oblivion of the recycle bin rather than being shared with the world. After five years and tens of thousands of images under my belt I have realized that just about every picture can be used in some form. Hell, I could have just photoshopped them and made them more interesting! Tee hee!

I'm certainly not saying that I'm going to throw away my dslr in favor of my Motorola Q. However, I am saying that I now see where the phone cam can fit into my world. I hope you enjoy the images!

Until we meet again!

Making Photoshop Work For You

In a past blog I spoke of my distaste for over-photoshopped photos. I explained that changing a human being's skin to fake plastic-looking almost video game quality is just wrong. Of course I meant in a purely photographic way not in a "if you use Photoshop you suck" kind of way. Photoshop is a very useful tool that can transform an ordinary photo into a very striking image.

After I became an ordained minister I wanted one of those striking images for what I was doing at the time. I got dressed in my Sunday best (sorry, I couldn't resist), grabbed a few props, snapped a pick and then set about doctoring it up with Photoshop to create that perfect image! This is what I came up with and it was relatively easy.

The more you do to set your shot up with your gear means that much less photoshopping you have to do. Also, whatever you can't produce with your gear can be taken care of with some simple photoshopping. Using photographic techniques and Photoshop can help you create images that are both cool and easy to produce.


And sometimes you can just explore Photoshop for fun and find that there are some really neat things you can do with just a few mouse clicks!


The point here is that Photoshop isn't evil and I didn't mean to make it sound that way in my previous blog post. On the contrary, Photoshop is a wonderful tool that can help save you countless hours of set up for shots and can help you create wonderful images. I guess my warning is just don't make the model's skin look fake!

Until we meet again!

Female Allure

I've been shooting for almost 10 years. More than half of that has now been artistic nude and fetish photography. While I shoot just about anything including nature, animals, events, etc., my passion lies in the female form.

Every woman is different. Every shoot is different. Sometimes we shoot in the studio.

Sometimes we shoot outdoors.

Some like to dress up.

Some prefer not to dress at all.

Others prefer to draw the attention to what they feel are their better assets.



In the end, every woman has a different motivation for why they are shooting with me. Some are professional models and it's just what they do. Others are trying to build a portfolio as they enter the world of modeling. More often though I've found that many women I shoot are looking to capture how they look at that particular moment in life so one day they can look back at the pictures and remember how "hot" they were. Regardless of their motivation for shooting I love capturing their forms.

Until we meet again!