Stephanie and Bo hold the record for the longest first contact when they met with us to hire us to shoot their wedding. They enjoyed BBC television like Christina and I though I don’t think we had any shows that we both actually watched. It was a great deal of fun.

Their engagement was wild! Megan and I drove and got lost. But we got back on the right track soon enough. It was out Hamilton Pool Road so far out that I was sure that we were in New Mexico. Stephanie had an uncle who had a ranch down that road and oh my gosh was it fantastic. The uncle was a big art fan and once we had found the place and were driving up the driveway we saw strange and unique outdoor works of art. The home was amazing and below are a few of my favorite images. Enjoy!

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Megan and I did another shoot today to test out some more stuff with the beauty dish. It’s been a good many days that we’ve been able to shoot and hone these skills and the quality of what we’ve been able to shoot has gotten dramatically better since we began. We’d hoped to shoot outside today, but it was just too dang cold.

Megan brought a chair from her home to shoot and we had a lot of fun seeing how many weird positions she could twist herself into. She says this is the chair that she does all of her post in at home when she’s working on her own projects. What a weird chair to work in. I suppose my trusty sidekick would have a weird chair.

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Melissa and Ramone are about to have their second baby and Christina was dying to shoot her maternity!

I’d say they look a little bit concerned about how this baby is going to change their family.

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My friend Lori did a really special thing for me a few months ago and I’d been meaning to find a way to pay her back the favor so we found a second to grab her kids in the studio and shoot some shots of them. I’ve met a lot of kids and most of them tend to be shy when a camera is pointed at them, but not these two. They walked right out onto the paper and started playing. Wow. If only I had that kind of moxy, oh wait, I do.

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Being a photographers kid must be tough. From birth until you move out you get dragged into weird situations where a camera is pointed at you and the shutter is released. Sometimes it can be humiliating, some times it can almost be fun. But what those kids don’t realize is that they’re going to change over time and eventually going to move out and all their parents will have is a few precious pictures to remember them and an occasional phone call or if you’re really lucky, a personal visit. We were setting up for a shoot at the studio with the kids there and Christina shot a few of the boys.

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Man the allergies are brutal this time of the year. Megan is my yard stick of allergies because she’s pretty quickly effected by whatever is blowing in the wind. I haven’t lived here long enough to know if I am dying or if it is just an allergy. She keeps me informed that I am not dying and it will all be alright if I can just make it until something isn’t growing in Texas.

She found this tree while attending an event at the convention center so we packed up everything and drove down to downtown for a little while for another experiment. It’s a giant tree with a lot of stuff that looks like tree cancer, but I’m not a tree doctor so my prognosis can not be used against me when the tree decides to sue. We also dropped into a creek bed underneath 6th street to a place that really didn’t smell that good but looked pretty dang cool.

We then went back to the studio and played with coloring the strobes for a while.

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We had to update the bio pictures for the website as we have changed and the company has changed a little. I don’t look the same anymore, Christina looks way different these days, plus we’ve got to add in our trusty sidekick/assistant, Megan. So we put aside an evening to spend in the studio shooting new images for the bio. Here are a few that I thought were fun.

The one and only trusty sidekick, Megan has been absorbed into the collective.

Christina couldn’t keep her hands in this shot so it wouldn’t work for the bio, but it was so cool that someone needed to see it and it ended up here on the blog.

Megan is the new master of the hair flip.

Hear me roar. No matter how hard I try I just end up doing something wacky in front of the camera. I think the vision had something to do with Godzilla stomping on me and I was going to make sure there was a record for the people who weren’t squished with me.

My trusty sidekick provided out of frame hairdryer action.

I’m catching flies.

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New lighting techniques have opened my eyes to new possibilities. My artistic knowledge sabbatical continues with todays few tests in the studio. We played with lights in different places and unusual ways of posing. Megan just won’t accept that she is a rock star. I should just be quiet or her head will get to big. She keeps promising it wont, but I just don’t know if she can take my perpetual prattling about how good she is at everything she touches.

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I spent part of the weekend making myself a beauty dish. Why? Because I wanted to do something with my son and I’ve been meaning to do the beauty dish thing for a while. It caused a lot of smoke in the kitchen, lots of noise and lots of paint fumes to create this dish, but it was well worth it. Today was the first day that we had available to use the new dish so Megan got together with Jo Ella who created a very dramatic look with very wild hair for us to shoot in Taylor today. It was way too cold but Megan is an incredible trooper and never said anything about the cold. Megan is the very best Trusty Sidekick ever! We love photographing downtown Austin, but parking is always such a pain that Taylor works out better when we are looking for that warehouse district look.

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New year. New Logo Old pictures that I found from the past.

Christina in her most daring role to date. This is the master suite in our rental house in 2004. When I’m not taking pictures I can do some amazing things with wood, drywall and paint and then some. Visit my studio some time. I was painting some shelves for my studio in this room while we were remodeling the house and the studio at the same time.

I put plastic sheets up on the wall to protect the walls from the black paint I was spraying with an airless sprayer.

After an hour of spraying the shelves I wasn’t all the way there anymore and started painting words on the walls. Yes, paint fumes tend to fuel the mind in mysterious ways.

Called my wife and said to get on her weird hippie clothes and do herself up because I had an idea. After calling her I spun around and around on the floor to mix the black paint into the crud on the floor and give it some wild circular patterns. Then I walked home in the rain to get the wife. I left foot prints on the street for 1/2 a mile because I had caked so much paint onto them with the spinning.

I used one strobe on the camera bouncing and cranked it up an extra stop to make the room really white.

I haven’t ever used drugs, nor did I start drinking until I was 32, but this is the second time I’ve been high from paint fumes. The first was with my father-in-law. Weird, huh?

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