I spent the weekend with family in Southern Missouri. While there my father, uncle and I decided to do some night time photography. We went to an abandoned house that we have worked with in the past. This building sits in front of an old cemetery out in the middle of no where. While taking pictures we kept hearing scratching and banging coming from inside the house. We told ourselves that this was just animals running from our lights. But truth be told, this really did not calm our nerves (I have watched to many ghost hunting shows on T.V.). Well we did not see any ghost but we did get some good shots.

Other Images Part 3

This image is from Fontenelle Forest in Bellevue. I had come here to walk
the forest with my boys. Giving the kids one of my old cameras they took
off to take their own pictures. While I was chasing after them this scene
caught my eye. The way the light highlighted the plants in the background
leaving the trees in the foreground a silhouette really intrigued me.

Other Images Part 2

Here are a few images that I took at Monahans Sandhills State Park in Texas. This is a beautiful park. I took these at sunrise so there was a lot of nice light to work with. It was awesome how the wind made intricate tracts in the sand. These tracts added greatly to the composition of my images. What I really liked about this park was that the Dunes were not too large like other dune parks I've been to. I was able to really get into the dunes to get some nice images. I was going to print these images for the show but they did not retain the quality I needed when printed in large format. There will be other images from this park in the show.

Other Images Part 1

With working on my show I have been to over 10 states and have taken thousands of images. With these I have been working on hundreds of images that will be cut down to about 30 final shots for the show. Instead of just hiding these other images in an obscure file on my hard drive for no one to see, I have decided to share some of these images on my blog. I will post images periodically from now to my show. These images will be the ones that I have worked on but for some reason I have decided to exclude from my show.

This first image was from Great Sand Dunes Start Park in Colorado. This was the first stop on a 5 day road trip I took to the four corners last winter. I was standing on a frozen creek bed. In the distance you can see the beginning of the Rockie Mountains and to the left you can see the edge of the sand dunes. The thing I remember most about this area was not the beautiful view but rather the multitude of fresh mountain lion tracks scattered all around me. When I saw these tracks part of me couldn't wait to see the animal so I could score a few choice shot, but that was just a small part. The majority of me wanted to gather my equipment and run before I became the snack of a hungry cat. Well I never saw a mountain lion but I did get a few decent pictures of the landscape.

If you haven't heard I have been working on a show for about 6 months. This show will be featuring a lot of my latest black and white landscapes. My opening will be Saturday, December 5th, noon - 8 pm and Sunday, December 6th, noon - 5 pm. I will be at the gallery during these times. It will be at Hot Shops Art Center at 1301 Nicholas Street, in Omaha Nebraska and will be up all December long. Below is the poster I am making up for the show.

Candy Buy Back

This Sunday I volunteered my services at Aesthetic & Family Dentistry in Bellevue (my father's practice). They were having a candy buy back event where kids could sell their unwanted candy from Trick or Treat'n. The candy will then be sent to our troops in the Middle East. My role was to take pictures of the children in their costumes. It was a fun day. There were lot of activities for the kids to do and everyone had a blast. Below are some images I took that day. The first three images were from the event. The last image was a fun shot I staged with the team before the event.