B&W Photography Magazine Merit Award

I just found out that a few of my images have been selected for publication in Black & White Photography Magazine. This is a national magazine that specializes in high end black & white photography. I was selected for a Merit Award for my insect photography. My work will be shown in issue 84 that will hit news stands in mid June or early July. Below I have included some of my insect images. These are not the ones that are in the magazine though. If you want to see those rush out to the news stand.

Hard Drive Adventures

The other night I was looking for a specific image I wanted to print out for a Mothers Day gift. I grabbed the hard drive the image was on and plugged it in. Well to my surprise I found that all the data on the hard drive was corrupted. Yup that is right, my hard drive and all my pictures on it were gone. The bummer was that this was the only back up I had for my Kansas trip I took last year. I was freaking out because there was two really great shoots from the trip that I did not want to loose. Well I was up to about 2 in the morning looking for the images. I eventually found them. These were the only two images I was able to find from the trip thought.

While I was looking frantically for these images I did find some other pictures I love that I have never done anything with. Since I have previously posted the Kansas pictures I decided to show you the other images I found. All these images are taken from rural Nebraska. The first is of Carhenge in Alliance. Next is of Courthouse and Jail Rock. The last image is of a misc country road outside of Papillion. Hope you enjoy.

Baby ELi

My youngest boy just turned 4 months and to mark this joyous occasion he took it upon himself to learn how to laugh. When I saw this I instantly grabbed my camera and started shooting. Though I did not get any good images of him laughing I did get some great smiles. There is something about a babies smile that brightens up your day :o)

Special Effects Fun

A few months ago I got the idea to do some fun special effects shots. Basically I wanted to combine people with elements (fire, water and air). This is an idea that I have had for several years but never forced myself to do until now. Here are the image I have come up with so far. I have a few more advanced concepts like these that I am itching to do in the future so keep an eye out.