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Shoot What You Love
“tv in ditch” 1997 baton rouge, one of my first negatives shot, and processed in my bathroom Shoot What you Love has always been my motto in a sense for so many things. The reason i got into photography is because i started seeing things in my world that i could not write something to…
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Do what you love and never work…
You’ve heard that old adage before right? “Do what you love and never work a day in your life?” Yea, it make sense on some levels, but when you do what you love for a living, don’t you have to work hard at it to get to the level you need to be so that…
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Chalmette Sunset – August 10th 2014
I hadn’t taken my copter out since L’esperance and wanted to start a series of sunsets along Paris Road. The sunsets here are amazing, with Bayou Bienvenue in your foreground, and a sun setting on New Orleans in the back. Here’s a toast to an amazing weekend.
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CREATE new Muscle Memory and become a better photographer
I can honestly say that i repeat myself when i teach. I do. I have some core fundamentals and philosophies to live/shoot by that get repeated time and time again, with each new crop of participants in my classes and workshops. It wasn’t until a few months ago i caught myself saying the same things…
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Summertime Rolls – New Ventures and Repeat Clients..do mix well.
WORKSHOP. Work IT. December 2nd 2014 “Studio on the Geaux” made it’s debut at NOLA Fashion Week, 2014, and it went so well i had to do it again. The premise for SOG is this: In the fast paced world of editorial and fashion photography, the working photographer needs to be skilled in both the…
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Life. It’s about doing what you love, being with who you love, and living in a city that loves you back.
I have always felt that spring in New Orleans is when this city shines..and if what you do has something to do w/ what makes this city so wonderful..shouldn’t you shine? I always have felt it right when the weather changes, at the times i am ramping up to shoot French Quarter Festival into —…
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Knights of Nemesis Parade 2014 – St. Bernard Parish
2014 is a great year – new opportunities, great change and i now live 1 block off the parade route in Chalmette….i traded up. Even though writer Michael Patrick Welch moved to the West Bank, he found his way in the parade.
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January 2014 – Me? I just make pictures – “Circle Comes Around”
As i said in an earlier post, this year has taken off. I was even more psyched to have a visit from my friend and yours Jeff Treffinger a musician, producer/engineer and contractor who recorded 1st album at the Mermaid Lounge of all places. He was at my studio to shed some ideas and whatnot on what…
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2014 – Spicy Start – New Ways to Turnaround
New Work with Tabasco, Seth Walker and Time Warner-Cable…but I see turnaround times shrinking fast! This year is gotten off to a pretty good start: a nice new round of client proposals and my first product shoot of the year for the McIlhenny Company and a new spice Tabasco is launching..I got to use my…
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Student Photography at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art
Little known fact – my very first job in New Orleans (almost the week i landed from life on the road) was lab technician for the darkroom at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art. Local photo-hero Victoria Ryan was a guest darkroom instructor while i was learning at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography…