Really?

That was about the reaction to a 7am shoot with her, she just wanted to get to school.

Back to School

Today is back to school day and Camp Palmer is officially closed for the 2010 summer season. Michael is starting 4th grade and Olivia is a 1st grader.

I have been taking most of the summer off of photography. I was feeling a bit uncreative and not really wanting to shoot that much. When we traveled this summer, the camera stayed in the bag most of the time.

Well, its time to get creative again and start posting here with new work and personal shots.

Julia told me this morning to dust off the camera and take a back to school shot. This was shot on white seemless paper, I wish my studio space was bigger (don't we all), so I had to photoshop the background wider, as the paper was only 5 foot wide. I used a ultra 600 in a medium softbox left and a ultra 600 in a umbrella right, F11 @ 125 sec, D700 camera with a 24-70mm Nikkor.

So this is sort of a new start, I have a ton to catch up on.......Lets get started

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Water Lily at Kenilworth Aquatic Garden

World War II Shoot - Fundraiser at Towner Jones Photography

I have not been posting much this summer, but this is a worthy cause and you get a excellent image to hang or give as a gift. If you interested in helping, follow this link to my friend Rob's site.

Top of the Rock Pano

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OBX Storm Pano

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Giving it his best

Photography Meet Up Tomorrow

I am having a Photography Meet Up tomorrow morning at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens.

Click for info.

U know it a good Vacation.....

when you can grow a beard like this on it.

Horses On The Beach in NC

Shooting Silo Images for Stock

A request was made yesterday for some silo stock images of a couple kitchen utensils. A quick call to Julia (she has a Kitchen Shop in the Bloomingdale's she is the GM of) and I had the utensils in hand last night. Up at 6 this morning, (had to get Michael JR to gobo the reflections) and I have the images for a noon deadline today.

I posted a shot of the set up to show how I did it. Want to know more about silo? click here.

Strawberry Picking

We went out the Butler's Orchard for another round of berry picking. We have picked and frozen about 20lbs this year. Yep, that is a lot of smoothies!! We are doing Strawberry,Banana, Fiberbek and Vitabek and a little OJ. You can get the supplements at your local Robeks.

I am going to photoshop out the Butlers and submit this for stock.

Mixed Spice Nuts II

The recipe is here.

Mixed Spiced Nuts

I did a shoot with Once Upon A Chef last week and brought home some of the sweet and spicy nuts for a studio shot for stock. I will do a link when she gets the shots from that day up with the recipe.

D700 * 24-70 2.8 @ f8 * Ultra 600 w/ 20% grid back left * Ultra 600 in medium box right * fill card in front

Meet Up Tomorrow