Growing a business.......

Wow! What an awesome and humbling experience it is to grow a business.

Another shoot this evening......and more prints coming today!!

Looking forward to another shoot this evening.

Also looking forward to the UPS man delivering more prints today.


I'll also be sharing another football team shot a week from Friday. This was a commissioned work and the client asked me not to show it until he unveiled it.

No rest for the weary.............and we wouldn't have it any other way!

Wow!! August has been such a busy month for us, and we are lovin' it!!! For all you guys who have booked or are considering us, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! We love what we do and we hope it shows. We love meeting new people and we love making beautiful images.

It just keeps getting hotter!

I cannot remember a hotter summer. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to August! School is just around the corner and

So....

Ok, so now that the family has seen the final group of images from Michael's set, I can share a few of them here. On the second day we shot a few in studio and after some slight tweaking in photoshop, we were all very pleased with the final product. I honestly think the poster came out even better than I expected. Michael's dad got me a UC logo from the school and a few hours later we had a poster that I am really proud of. And the coolest and most rewarding part is that Michael and his dad were diggin it too!

This one is gonna be really brief because I have a lot of work to do getting orders together. I hope everyone is having a great day and I'll be posting again very soon.
thanks for stopping by,
~greg

Myrtle Beach Work-cation

So I was fortunate enough to get an invitation to shoot at great band at a great venue in a great vacation spot. What could be better, right? Well, when the band is Frontiers - Journey Tribute Band, the venue is the House of Blues, and the vacation spot is Myrtle Beach, it doesn't get much better.
We found out Frontiers would be playing the House of Blues, Myrtle Beach at the end of May and singer Jeremey Hunsicker invited me to shoot them there. First, if you've never heard Frontiers, you owe it to yourself to check them out. They are THE Journey Tribute Band. You can check them out at www.journeytributeband.com or find them on facebook.

So the wife and I talked about the proposition and decided we could make it a mini working vacation, a work-cation if you will. So we arrived a day before the show and stayed a day afterward. We had a great trip and had a blast with the guys. I'll post more details about the vacation par of the trip on another post but suffice it to say the Frontiers gig at the House of Blues was the highlight of the weekend.

I hadn't been to Myrtle Beach in 10 years. And believe it or not, I had actually seen JGB at the House of Blues then. It is a truly great venue.

Before the show we met a friend from my hometown that I hadn't seen in probably 25 years and his wife. Our friends, Mitch Borden and his wife Lisa, made reservations for us for dinner at the House of Blues and in spite of my wife and I getting lost and arriving late, we had a wonderful dinner. It was great catching up with Mitch after all these years and the wives became fast friends. They are just really nice people and we are looking forward to hanging out with them again very soon.


As for the concert itself....WOW!! The guys really brought their "A" game. The best show we have seen by far. It was so much fun seeing them at this venue. So the moral of the story is.......great music at a great venue with great friends makes for one incredible night of fun!
Just back and I'll offer some more update on the guys from Frontiers and more on our Myrtle beach trip.
have a great day!
~greg

2nd Session........and a band shoot!

What a busy week it's been. Two senior sessions with Michael H, and a band shoot tomorrow at the House of Blues - Myrtle Beach! So when Michael and I got together for his senior shoot this past Sunday we knew we would run out of light before we were able to shoot everything we anted to do. So we did the urban part of the shoot on Sunday and scheduled the 2nd session for Tuesday.
The plan for Tuesday was to shoot Michael in his football gear. We met at 8:30 a.m. and had to go to a secondary location because our first spot was overrun with athletes working out. This does not make the most pleasing background so we ended up going to Central High and asked if we could use their field for a few photos. Well, a few photos turned into several photos. Coach Joel Helton was very gracious and let us use the field. I want to thank Coach Helton publicly.

After shooting at the field we took a short break for lunch. My wife and kid's were meeting my eldest son's teach from last year at Five Guys on Emory Road so we decided to meet them. Awesome burgers guys! Michael had never been there but I suspect he'll be back. If you haven't been to Five Guys Burger and Fries, you need to check it out. The burgers are great and they load you up with great fries as well. Man, I could throw down on one of those burgers right now.

So after lunch we headed over to the studio. I had a couple of ideas I wanted to try with Michael and he agreed to try them. I totally want to post a couple of these pics here but I have to wait until he and his family see them next week. I really want to see their expressions when they see them. They are some of my favorite photos I have ever taken (excluding my kids and my wife). I will be posting a few of these next week after Michael and his family have viewed them.

Next up is a concert shoot at the House of Blues - Myrtle Beach. I have been a musician for most of my life. I started playing bass guitar when I was 15 years old and I mess around with guitar as well. So any time I get an opportunity to combine two of my passions (music and photography) I am really stoked.

Back in the Spring I was fortunate enough to see a great band at the Valarium in Knoxville. The band was Frontiers - Journey Tribute Band. This is not just "a" Journey tribute band, this THE Journey tribute band. I'll save some of this for another blog, but suffice it to say these guys are awesome! And they're a great bunch of guys too. Well, except Stephen, the guitar player. Ok, I'm just kidding, he's a great guy too, even if he is a Brit. So anyway, my boys LOVE Journey so when we talked to Jeremey Hunsicker, the lead singer, after the Valarium show, he told us about an upcoming show in Gray, TN. It was at a Bar-B-Que festival and we would be able to take the kids. Sweet!!!

So at this gig we found out they were gonna be in Kingsport, TN., the following week. So again, we loaded up the kiddos and headed up I-81. Not only did we get to enjoy a fun night with great music, Stephen suggested we we should think about coming to see them at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach. After talking to Jeremey, it was set. I was gonna be shooting them there. How cool is that??

So the wife and I are taking a work-cation to the beach (thanks Jeremey!) and I will have pics from the show as well as a review when we return.

Thanks for checking out the blog and please tel your friends and check back for updates!
~greg