Meteor Shower.. or the Lack There Of...

Nothing like staying up until 3:30am to have the beautiful clear skies clouded up at the last minute. But we were up, and we were determined! So we drove to the cloud line.. Meteorology at it's finest.. "We need to go that way"... my roommate says as she points to the top right of the windshield.. So that way is the way we went!

We had a small window between cloud bands and what we did see was pretty much washed out by city lights.. Really made me miss Sarasota Nights and the clear skies over the beach... 3 Days until I'm FLA bound!!! Can't wait!!

Change of Pace

So A lot of things have changed in the last few months. I've started teaching at The Showcase School of Photography and have done some revamping in the way that I spread out my talent. I'm using everything I know to prepare myself to hone in on a specific direction for my photography in 2010. It's time to move forward at light speed. That being said, I've been spending a lot of time siting at my desk diving deep into social issues I can wrap my heart and lens around. The other day I grabbed a snap of my roommate and her dog.. This is what I see when I look right from my computer screen..He loves to look out the window... SQUIRREL!

L5P - Zombies

I love living less than five minutes from Little Five Points in Atlanta. It is by far one of the most interesting neighborhoods with care free personality. I spend a lot of time there around Halloween and what I found was nothing shy of entertaining. But My life seems to have been a lot about irony this last month, so for today I leave you this. CODE RED!

MIA

Headed south to Miami for some much needed family vacation time. It was an incredible weekend of family, football, sun and beach.. what more could a girl ask for;)



I even got to see the Hurricane's storm through town.. the football team of course;)

Home in the Q

On my way back to Atlanta on my last visit to Sarasota I encountered something I never could have imagined. My flight was delayed 2.5 hours and little did I know that the age old stereotype of "My grandparents live in Sarasota" would visually be played out in front of me during that time.

One arriving airplane, 10 wheelchairs later, it has been confirmed.. ;)



The Sarasota airport is always very special to me because my mom's a contract private pilot and flys out of there very often. So I always try to make a frame or two of this special place.



And of Course nothing says Sarasota like a beautiful Sunset;)

Gift Card Giver Doc

I recently shot a short doc for GiftCardGiver.com and as I was editing I caught myself smiling! Such a good feeling to be working on projects with heart.

Check out their website, great people doing great things:)

Atlanta House Party from Gift Card Giver on Vimeo.

Geekfest 2009

I spent this past weekend completely saturated in and around amazing talent and incredible inspiration in St. Pete Florida for the annual APAD Geekfest!!!

As a freelance photographer there are many times in the daily grind of my industry where I can get disillusioned and dismayed by the state of our current times. I am so thankful for this gathering annually that works as a reminder, a swift kick in the arse if you will, to pick myself up and keep feeling through photography. I was reminded by every speaker that spoke, and there were some AMAZING ones!, that the most important images, the ones that help build you as a person outside of just a photographer, are the images with heart in and behind them.

Since my dad died two years ago I have felt that I am just coasting through the daily job. Shooting what I know, and not questioning where my ambitions went. It feels as if there is a thick layer of crud between my heart and my head, a layer that on most days seems to strong to break through.

This weekend helped pry open my eyes to the light that I always knew existed. The light that shines from photography that tells the hearts story while moving people to action. I'm so excited for what sits so close on the horizon.. As soon as I can share I will! EYE Of THE STORM ;)

This weekend was...

Great Friends...


Late Nights..


Florida Games...


Newspaper Studios...


And not a lot of sleep... ;)