A Couple Holiday-Themed Images

This first shot was created for Joe, one of the partners at Drum Creative, for their family Christmas card. We went out to a really cool, authentic log cabin for the shoot (meaning no electricity, no plumbing, complete with an outhouse and fully outfitted with early American decor). I knew that Joe wanted the image to be heavily stylized in post-processing and below is the final result.

The next image was created for The Blood Connection’s winter Bruster’s Blood Drive campaign materials. For these campaigns, they like to feature a child eating a pint of Bruster’s ice cream. We chose a girl from church to be our model this time around and she did a great job. I’m sure the fact that we provided her with a pint her favorite kind of ice cream helped put her in a good mood. The shot below was an outtake from the session – we decided to go with a picture of her with reindeer antlers on for the actual ad, but I think the shot below captures her personality well.

Lydia Grace

Here’s a shot of our new niece, Lydia Grace, born last week to Keri and Alex.

Downtown Photo Walk

I spent some time wandering around downtown Greenville on Saturday afternoon. It’s always fun to just walk around without any specific purpose and just observe everything going on. Every time I am down that way, I always find something new or interesting. Posted below are some of the shots I got. My favorite shot of the day was the picture of the daylilies by the Reedy River with the Swamp Rabbit Bridge and Larkin’s on the River in the background.

Wofford Commencement

I shot my sister’s graduation from Wofford College on Sunday. The ceremony was outside in front of Wofford’s “Old Main” building and the forecast called for rain showers throughout the morning. It had rained off and on the night before, so every time the wind blew the trees above all of the guests, I had to scramble to cover my camera. Thankfully, the showers held off until just after the commencement ceremony had ended.

Anyway, the full set of shots are up here.

Japanese Maples

We have three Japanese Maple trees in our yard and they are all this really nice shade of purple right now. I took advantage of a short break in the rain showers tonight to go out and snap a few shots.

With all of the rain we’ve been having lately, the miscellaneous vegetation that has laid dormant in our yard has really grown up. Good thing I got a weedeater for my birthday, so I can keep everything under control.

Raven Cliff Falls

Here are a couple of shots from last weekend’s hike to Raven Cliff Falls with the Lifepoint guys. It was a nice day for the hike, which ended up being about a 4 mile round trip. There were a few other trails that could have taken us closer to the falls than this overlook, but we hadn’t planned time for the additional trip.

So What If It Was Parked?

Here’s a Yellow Ferrari convertible we came across while shooting downtown on Sunday. I had some fun with this one, enhancing it to make it look like it was moving fast even though it was parked.

I personally wouldn’t have left the top down, being such a nice car with a tan leather interior.