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Archive for December, 2009


The Men

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When I’m taking portraits of a group of men, the one thing I use as inspiration for posing and composition is “Oceans Eleven”. Taken with the Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 and lit with an Alien Bees B800 with a shoot-through umbrella and a Nikon SB28 bare as the backlight. This was taken in an almost completely [...]

Mr. and Mrs. Charlton

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I don’t usually like posting photos of clients until they have seen them, so now that Mike and Melody have their photos, I am going to blog them. Of course, if you know Mike, and are friends with him on Facebook, you’ll probably get to see them all pretty soon. Here is their first dance [...]

The Walsh Family

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Taken in Historic Yorktown, yet another “Olde Towne” just outside of Newport News, VA, my friend Craig Kuhns, my wife Heather, and our kids assisted me on this family photo shoot. It was a little chilly, but so easy because the Walsh family is so good looking. I used my Nikon d200 fixed with a [...]

Melody Crane…

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…back when she was a Crane. This is a shot from Melody’s bridal portrait session. We got rained on, but we still had some pretty amazing locations. Now that Melody and Mike have gotten married, I’m able to share these images. I’ll post a few more in the next few days and weeks, but this [...]

Jane Zook

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Jane and I have been wanting to do a proper photo shoot for a while now, and it just so happened that the only day we were able to pull it together was a freezing cold, rainy day in December. She was amazing though, she has such a natural beauty that it’s hard not to [...]