merritt and jayme

Here are a few shots from an engagement shoot with a couple of good friends that ride bikes and just pretty much have a good time where ever they go.

More images can be seen at kinetic-images.com

more white shades

A couple more images with the white shades theme.

my brother

his wife

I'm planing on doing about 35-40 portraits with these white shades so stay tuned.

ella

I recently had the pleasure of photographing little Ella.

I really like this next series of three

she's just so dang cute

So far she has been easy one too shoot. Here is the latest gallery of little Ella --> kinetic images

white shades

I picked up these cheap, terribly silly looking, white shades from a gas station somewhere near Smith Mtn Lake VA. I've taken a few photos of different people sporting them (Including myself) and achieved some pretty fun results. Expect to see more shots with the white shades.

so i made a movie

I put together a quick video for the purpose of trying to figure out a work flow to creating video. I had never tried shooting video for the purpose of creating one... I set out wanting to capture some footage, edit it down to usable clips, piece them together, add some tunes and export it to a format for the web... sounds simple. Right?

head shots

So for what ever reason 6 months ago or so, I started taking head shots of my friends and family whenever I got the chance. It has worked out to be a good photo exercise, because it’s been all about being loose, quick and creative. Some have been pretty standard stuff, but others have been a little less, um well… standard. A few examples of what I'm getting at.

I'll probably do anther post similar to this in the near future. I've had a lot of fun doing these and they are starting to head in an interesting direction.

The High Country

A few weekends ago I went to the high country to check out a down hill race at Beech Mountain. It was the first DH race held at Beech in 10 years, from what I understand. This was the first in a three race series the resort is hosting this summer. More info can be found at the series web site. I went up for the weekend to check out the new track and more or less just hang out. I took some photos but I did more talking and dorking around than anything else. So here are a few shots I was stoked on from my weekend.

race day

Austin Perkins

Andrew Mueller

Geritt Begtah

chill'n chill'n

motomike

sort of close to the couch i crashed on

A few more images can be seen at kinetic-images.com

America

This past Friday I attended a benefit concert for the Children’s Home Society of North Carolina. It was a good time, fer sure. I made it there just in time for the band America to take the stage. I snapped a few pics, they played a few tunes and then a rather significant thunderstorm rolled through. The music stopped, the umbrellas came out and we stood around and watched the heavy rain and the wicked lightning strikes for the next little bit. Eventually the clouds broke and the clean up began. There was standing water on the stage and tarps over most of the gear, but a crew armed with brooms cleaned things up quickly. Most of the crowd stuck it out through the storm. So when the band returned to the stage there was a wet, but stoked, crowed waiting to listen to the rest of their set. Here are a few images I came up with.

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It was cool listening to these guys. I have childhood memories of my parents putting their albums on the turntable from time to time. So yeah, I enjoyed my self. More images of the show can be seen here --> kinetic-images.com