The Rest of Rachael...

Here's a few more of my shoot with Rachael. If you want to see the whole shoot, you can go to my Pictage page and check them out@ http://www.pictage.com/454078

The Pictage has the unprocessed rest of the shoot, so you can see what happened in a lot of these. Some were so good, I just didn't have to do anything to them, but I really am pleased with the results.

More Rachael...

Rachael was such a great model to work with. We really hit a homerun on Wednesday. I have so many great photos, but here's a few more of my favorites. Tomorrow I'll finish up the set for you to see.
Thanks Rach!

All In A Days Work

What a day! It's not often I have three different gigs in one day. Fortunately 2 of them were at the same place. The prestigious and amazing Columbia Club in Downtown Indianapolis and the other was all the way up at my studio space in the Pyramids.

I want to send out a huge thank you to Mr. A.J. Ploughe, catering manager at the Columbia Club.
A.J. invited me to photograph a luncheon with the Perfect Wedding Guide associates to photograph the event, mix and mingle with other associates in the Wedding/Event field and do some great photos of the Grand Ballroom on the 10th floor. He also opened up the Club to me additionally to photograph a model I've had the luck to work with in the past.

With A.J. and G.M. & C.O.O, Maarten Van Wijk's gracious permission, I was allowed unfettered access to this local & national landmark. As you can see, both the Crystal Terrace and the Grand Ballroom are two of the premier ballrooms in the city.

Thanks again A.J., Marty & Rachael!

Kristen and Lowell's Big Day

Click on the title of this Blog to get to Kristen and Lowell's Pictage page with the entire day in Pictures.

I had such a great time photographing this great couple on the 15th. It was quite a great family affair with the Miller's and Messenger's out in force for the service in Lebanon and then you thrown in Kristen and Lowell's huge circle of friends and the party @ the Rathskellar in Indy was hoppin'.

I'll be posting a few pics over the next few days for everyone to see but feel free to go straight to their Pictage page and see them all for yourself.

Thanks Lowell and Kristen! God bless and enjoy your lives together....

Ah the Weather....

Last night was quite an interesting weather phenomenon. We get ice storms from time to time, but this was really pretty and as I was leaving the studio last night, I just happened to have one of my cameras with me and some glass so I thought I'd capture a few lovely weather pix around the Pyramids.

Spring is coming. Sunday was wonderful yesterday was about the exact opposite and yet in its lack of friendliness, it really was beautiful. I hope you enjoy!

The unjoy of computers

So for those of you that don't know. I'm also a photographer for another company. I've photographed half a percent of Indy for this company. That may not seem like a lot, but I'm close to 6000 people that I've spent at least an hour with individually which has got to stand for something, right?

Now I've really enjoyed my work, until I started to deal with computer issues and video uploading. I'm not a videographer. I'm not a computer tech. I'm a visual artist, and video isn't an area of expertise. Even more extremely, I'm not a computer support guy. God bless them! Honestly, they work the computer like I try to work light and lenses and stuff and I was grateful for Kevin@ Nerds On Call for sitting down and helping me try to get my USB plugs to work with my external hard drives and have somehow came to the conclusion that for some reason my Kodak 1400 printer puts a wrench in the USB playpen. So I've now sent an inquiry to Kodak to see if they know what to do. All the while, I've got a massive backlog of videos to process and upload and this computer is powerful enough to do that and photos, but right now, it's like a corvette stuck in rush hour traffic. If and it seems so impossible, but if it gets squared away, I'll be so happy that things will work and I can do my job. But as it is, I didn't get paid for the 5 hours I spent today or the other 20 hours that I've spent with this whole fiasco....
So I'll stop complaining and pray for answers and someday the whole world will be Mac.

Do I have an amen????

as a post script. For some reason, when I went to my blog without logging in, I only saw one photo that my wife Lisa took of Beverly Bookwalter. Forgive me if some of you see it and perhaps I'm in the dark, but I'm going to post the Buttresses of the church that Lisa took at the Bookwalter/Jeczmionka wedding. She loves these series and I think they are lovely too. Nice job Lisa!

A Special Thank You

To all the photographer's that have a spouse help them, you can understand the relief of the extra eyes, hands and grace that can accomplish a lot when you've got to deal with the overall process of the day.

This is the case with Lisa. It may seem a little out of place at this moment in time if you knew the whole story, perhaps down the road I'll elaborate, but I want to make sure I say thank you to Lisa for all her help and her assistance and referrals and her eyes.

As you can see by these photos, she's got a great talent in photography as well and I always am glad to have her loaded with a camera to get what I don't and bring some new options to the day's story.

We're going to be photographing Kristen and Lowell's wedding in a couple weeks at the Rathskellar and I'm excited to see what she comes up with. Not too many photographers have the support that she's provided me, nor the ability and in this time, I just want to make sure it's voiced for the world to know that I appreciate her and what she's done for me with DPA.

Thanks Lilo! You rock!

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