I feel I need to get a post or two up on calmphotos before the holiday weekend.
It has been a crazy-busy two weeks for me - new home, new office/studio, daughters here with me for the summer, several large print orders and a few assignments as well.
I never realized just how much goes into putting a new household together from scratch. It’s always, always something. And I’m still not finished with the moving-in process.
But it will all be worth it.
The following are my favorite shots from three recent photo shoots, all within the last week. Corporate portraits for Battelle and Battelle, event photography of the President’s Club Brunch at the University of Dayton and home exterior photography for custom home builder Dan De Vol, of his strikingly beautiful Mariner home at the 2008 Homerama.
My digital darkroom and Mac system are in pieces on the floor of my new home office, in a tangle of cables and wires. My studio equipment and furniture gets moved tomorrow, and no DSL till Friday. Not only that, but I’m learning real quick how much work is involved in setting up a new home and being a single dad to two young daughters.
And sure enough, a big print order comes through from one of my favorite commercial art dealers. Thank God for outsourcing to a good, quality lab and drop shipment.
Nonethess, I wanted to post a quick entry of my latest additions to my Flickr gallery - Another Man’s Treasure. HDR photographs of antiques and old stuff found at the Ft. Ancient Relic Shop, just outside the entrance to Camp Kern in Oregonia, Ohio.
It’s been a while since I’ve added a new selection to my online storefront of montage “PosterPrints.” With all the wonderful new photographs captured this past autumn - particularly in Hocking Hills - I thought it would be fun to create a montage of select nature and landscape images that were taken using the high dynamic range technique. Personally I think this body of work represents some of the best nature and landscape photography that I’ve completed to date.
What I would like to do is one more showing and reception here in the Dayton area before my planned move toward Columbus this spring or early summer. These images look absolutely amazing as 24″ x 36″ Giclees prints on enhanced matte paper. I’m looking for a local venue that will host a showing of these prints, mounted but unframed, whereby I could organize an opening reception and then perhaps keep the prints on display for a few weeks or so.
This newest montage print, titled “Autumn Opening,” represents just a small sampling of the images that I have available for print and licensing sales as well as a possible showing. The ImageKind link listed below will take you to my newest online print storefront where this and all of my other montage PosterPrints are available for sale along with a wide selection of papers, mats and frames.
My daughter Emma along the shoreline of Rose Lake, late Saturday afternoon, November 10, 2007.
Canon 1D Mark III, Canon 28-70mm f2.8 L, Bogen tripod and Kirk ballhead. Multiple exposure processed in Adobe Bridge and Photoshop CS2 as 32-bit image file, curve and contrast adjustments in Aperture.
Funny how God talks to us when we least expect it and reminds us of the truth of life and what really matters most.
Twice a year my daughters and I attend the weekend camp-outs for Indian Princesses (now officially called Adventure Princesses by the YMCA) held at Camp Kern, which is located between Lebanon and Oregonia, Ohio, on the other side of the Little Miami River from Fort Ancient.
When I was about eight or nine years old, way back in the early 70’s, I attended summer camp there, not taking a shower for a whole week, drinking lots of bug juice and getting scared at the old cemetery just outside the camp entrance. I never thought that at age 43 I would be back in those old cabins, missing a shower terribly after just two days, drinking bug juice (along with a few “dad pops”) and watching my own daughters, six and eight, getting scared with ghost stories and having a whole bunch of fun.
Camp Kern has become somewhat of a family tradition for many people who were raised in the Dayton-Cincinnati area. My nephew Sean, who also went there for summer camp as a kid, now is now the one of the Camp Directors.
The following were just a few images I captured during last weekend’s camp-out. I held myself to bringing just a camera body (Canon 5D), a Canon 85mm 1.8 and a Canon 100mm 2.8 macro. All images shot in raw format and edited in Aperture.
