Adria and Jonathan

Here's a few shots from a recent engagement shoot with my long time friend Jon and his fiance Adria. We had fun shooting on one of the last great Autumn days with leaves still on the trees. Adria came down from Lexington for the shoot and we went to one of my favorite spots on WKU's campus.

They are getting married just outside Washington D.C. in June. I think they are giving me a historical tour of our Nation! The ceremony is in Martinsburg, West Virginia, the rehearsal dinner is in Hagerstown, Maryland and i'm flying in to D.C. to get there. Wow, this is going to be a great wedding celebration! While i'm there, I may have to make a visit to the Smithsonian. And I heard about one other really interesting location. I'm looking forward to it, I hope we have time to do a day after shoot in D.C. before they jet off.

Thank You

As my business has progressed over the years, i've watched it evolve and move people with emotion. Which is exactly what it should do as the craft of storytelling gets better and better. I still love to hear clients voice it in their own words. I recently booked a wedding with a Marketing Professor at WKU. In her first correspondence with me, here is what she had to say:

"When some of your pictures of people I don't even know brought tears to my eyes I thought I'd better contact you about my own wedding!"

Thank you Joanna, I know that is sincere.

I shared with her a funny revelation that hit me on the way to our first face to face meeting. After I parked at Western and made my way toward her office, intertwined with the latest crop of WKU students, it hit me; "Wow, i'm about to show my presentation to a Professor of Marketing on her home turf. This is where she judges presentations for a living!" And I knew there was a pass/fail outcome associated with this single meeting. I hope she gives her students the benefit of the entire semester.

I'm going to assume that it was the power of the images and not my presentation that is the reason I will be documenting her wedding day celebration. We both got a nice little laugh out of it though, and I look forward to presenting her own wedding images to her.

Traveling Vietnam Wall Memorial

This past week the Traveling Vietnam Wall Memorial came to our hometown. I had a chance to visit it briefly and captured a few images. I also dug into some old files to get a comparison to the original Vietnam Wall in Washington D.C. which I visited several years ago. I think this is a great opportunity for the many people who may never get the opportunity to visit our Nation's Capital.






Here are some shots of the real Vietnam Wall in Washington D.C. I photographed these several years ago. It's amazing how emotional each of these memorials are for the ones touched by the Vietnam War.

This shot is actually somewhat of a self portrait. If you look closely, i'm the one with the Khaki photo vest.

Jillian and Joe

Recently I had the pleasure of working with Jillian and Joe from Edmonton, KY, they were a great couple to work with. Here is a series of images from that shoot, but if you really want to see how the day went, check out this Slideshow.

Incidentally, Joe is the Tour Manager for Black Stone Cherry, a local band that's made quite a name for themselves touring all over the world. If you look closely you might see some of the band members in the slideshow.




This was my first time shooting at the Glasgow Country Club. It was a beautiful setting for a wedding and Jillian made my job easy.









There was an Elvis sighting at the reception.

A Visit to Maker's Mark

A long time friend of mine is a Maker's Mark Ambassador and after seven years it was time to go crack open his barrel and do some bottle dipping. I took my cameras and just had fun documenting the process. I walked away feeling like Maker's Mark has one of the finest marketing strategies of any business alive today. They get their clientele involved in the process and allow them to get close to the product that they love so much.

Attaching personalized labels.

Mike dipping bottles that came from his own personal barrel.




Yours truly.

Moody Blue

I just returned from a wedding down at Lake Martin, Alabama. This lighthouse at Childrens Harbor is a beautiful setting. There is a little white chapel that sits right at the waters edge and the lighthouse is adjacent to it. I slipped away during the reception at Harbor House to create this image of the lighthouse operating just after sunset. The lake looks incredibly tranquil and peaceful on this evening.

Recently, however, Lake Martin played host to Aquapalooza with Alan Jackson headlining. Supposedly there were 15,000 boats out on the lake during the concert. It gets pretty dicey on the lake when the wind blows, I can only imagine the size of the waves when that many boats are out on the lake.

International Newgrass Festival

Bowling Green, KY is the birthplace of Newgrass Music and this past weekend was the first annual International Newgrass Festival. A big thanks to Kenny Lee for hosting the event. There were great artists scheduled all weekend long. I made it out on Saturday night to see several of the original members performing in their own solo bands. There was Curtis Burch, the amazing vocals of John Cowan, and the father of Newgrass, Sam Bush. At the end of the night Curtis and John came back on stage with Sam for some original Newgrass Revival songs.

I had a great time shooting this and enjoying the music. It was a wonderful cool August evening.


Curtis Burch a.k.a. Dr. Dobro.

My good friend Sean Thomas with Musicians Pro and Star Studios holding it all together.


John Cowan doing what he does best.



The father of Newgrass, Sam Bush.