this will do...for now.

camera? what's that?

sorry blog fans.

it seems the people at my place of employment had the vision to transform me into a reporter who occasionally takes pictures for my own stories.

therefore anything i have shot lately is pretty lame and from a meeting or something equally lame.

i have a new respect for reporters but miss shooting somewhat interesting assignments on a daily basis.

this has been a frustrating transformation for me and some people around me. it is good in some respects, because i'm learning a new skill. that is always a plus.

i do, however, miss the days of shooting a lot. i'd rather shoot 5 or 6 assignments a day than go to meeting after meeting. it's good to know what's going on in the area but i'm a photographer at heart, not a reporter.

thanks for humoring me while i vent.

the traveling vietnam veterans wall

eli timothy george

i haven't shot anything at the newspaper that i'm really proud of lately so i thought i'd show a few frames from a business shoot the other day. this is coury's cousin's baby. his name is eli. this is his 1st month of life.

vegas, baby.

the view of mandalay bay from our room. mandalay bay somehow connected to our hotel. clay tells me there is an awesome aquarium there.


hooters hotel. somehow we never ended up going there. coury the tour guide said it wasn't necessary.


our hotel is the pyramid looking thing on the left. complete with a "save big" sign. ballers gotta ball.


best hair ever.


outside of new york, new york. it's a busy busy place.


lots of walking to be had in vegas.


taking advantage of the nice light in the room window.

i cut off her foot!

bloggins from a state tourney, or, an early exit.

the cows are coming home.

i have a thing for branches in my frame. who knew?

art for sale.

hey dedicated readers.

to combat debt i'm having an art sale. the price is right but only for a limited time.

to view the gallery of prints and perhaps order, check out this
link.

cute. but inappropriate for newsprint.

the girl on the left ruins it. that's okay. it's still good for a laugh.

the weather has been nasty

dude, where's my wall?

sorry, it's the only title i could think of.

our coverage area did not escape the wrath of last night's string of tornadoes and high winds. the lady that lives on the top floor was home when this happened, hiding in the closet.

200th post

thanks for watching. don't touch that dial.

this won't hurt a bit.

i want to reshoot this. i'll probably never get lucky enough to find someone covering their eyes though.

any suggestions?

i'm scared of heights

i found out about 3 years ago that i was scared of heights. i had to shoot pictures from the outstretched ladder of a fire truck while i was an intern at the paper i'm working at now. it wasn't really that high up, just scary for some reason.

today i came full circle. i shot pictures from the roof of the hospital of this guy fixing their sign. just stepping out onto the roof gave me shaky legs. i was terrified to peer over the side, as you can see.

and it really shouldn't have been a big deal. i know i was pretty well protected. i wasn't going to fall off the building. my body just freaks out now.

i used to jump off 30 ft. bridges into rivers. i used to jump out of trees into water. i used to get too close to the edge when we went to cliffs at state parks.

but i can't do it anymore. my body just can't handle it. it kind of ticks me off.




p.s. - amy winehouse shares a birthday with me. she is one year younger. she looks really old.

takin' it to the streets

main street, harrodsburg

something different

william george and i set out to do something different with his senior portraits. i think we accomplished our mission.

which one?

humor me.

mlk and more

tiny man

doing all the things a tiny man can.

i got a little heavy handed with the burn tool. it's my blog. i'll do what i want.

saturday

on the prowl

for a new apartment.

oh deer.

i saw this on the way home from the UK basketball game.

my camera was still on motor drive and the deer ran off after i fired a 10 frame burst. natural instincts probably told them to run from anything that sounded like a gun.

tomfoolery

this is a picture of me from last week...err...maybe 20 years ago. i'm the one with the puppy. our current house is in the backgroud. i'm in the yard of our old house. i loooove this picture. notice my neighbor, sara, hiding behind the clothes line.



younder cousins playing in front of my older cousin's tree house at my grandmother's.



matt, my first puppy and i found a wormhole in the galaxy and transported our younger selves into the future. i wish.

this is matt's christmas gift. hopefully he won't see this before christmas!

farewell florida, hello danville

as most of you know i left florida for the last time last week en route to my new job in danville, ky. i took secondary roads out of florida to milk the most out of the 80 degree weather.

here's the boardwalk to the public beach at Cocoa Beach, Florida. this town is the home of the ron jon surf shop and is considered the east coast surf capital.



the water was a bit chilly for swimming but i had to stick my toe in one last time just to say i was in the ocean in december.



in or around the jacksonville area, before i finally hopped on the intersate. with my truck loaded on top, inside and on the back my dad said i looked like one of those vagabonds you see on the road with all their earthly belongings. i guess that would be me.

mojo

creative freedom makes all the difference in the world.

though the rain may be coming down and the temperature is dropping, i am where i need to be.