While you were sleeping!

Just finished with the 1st in a series about the goings on after-hours in Wise County!

Chose the wise regional Hospital as my 1st subject, these guys are on point.24 7. It shows the 1st image as if night going to day because that's,  exactly how I felt while shooting this. It became hard to distinguish between the two after a while, so the photo just seem to set up the whole series!

Check out the complete take at wise regional!

Wrenching it!

My hat is off to this guy! Presidential candidate John Davis came rolling through  Decatur this week claiming to fix America with his patriotic wrench! Davidson who is only on the ballot in 3 states claims that he will visit every County in the United States in his patriotic red white and blue bus!

For me, it was a chance to practice and impromptu portrait on a last-minute call, things change when you forget your flash and reflectors! As luck would have it Davis rolls up, and parks in the shade, sweet, all I had to do was pull him into the light and I had a minus-1.7 background made in the shade if you will. The hard overhead light gave him that harsh workingman, outdoors look, and his rolling billboard killed the busy background!

 From the set, portraits

Today's abstract....redneck wind chime

My ten years of Joe

It's been an honor to cover this legendary coach for the last decade of his career. He's displayed more love, care and passion for this sport than any coach I've ever met. It has been an honor to provide you with action from the sidelines in the field of this giant of a man.

As of Monday morning, Joe announced his retirement to Wise County and the world. When I got the call, I immediately started to figure out how to project this visually to the public. As anyone knows who has shot Joe, he's not always the easiest to capture on film when he is aware of a camera, but from 10 years of good standing and a relationship with this man, he complied in every way possible. From him I felt a sadness on one hand of leaving his comfort zone for years and on the other, a great joy to pass this on to the younger generation. I found the best photo to be something that conveyed both emotions. This is what I came up with.

The key to this was the simplicity of the shot, after all, Joe gets board with my camera pretty quick so this is nothing more than a flash on a rope strung out of view on the camera right down a narrow hallway to simulate the natural light almost as if the light represents the next step in life and he's just waiting in the wings until June.

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Stock show blows in to town!

From the last 10 years with the exception of 2 rain outs I have shot  the Fort worth stock show parade. every year this thing seems to grow and expand unbelievably to the tune of almost 2 hours!

Never have been  that hip on shooting parades due to most of it being staged! On the other hand, there is a lot of writers and participants from my coverage area, so it gets me out of town and in the mix!

And then again, you find a shot like the one above! For me this shot made the whole trip worth it, although the participant wasn't from my coverage area. A visual moment where everything came together at one time, the Boca, the reflection, the light reflected from a building onto the tuba player, gave me the shot I needed for being there! 

I have found over the years no matter what your subject is there are little moments swirling within the big picture, you just have to learn to be patient and wait on them, and when the photo gods align, it's almost surreal!

 More stock show