Lauren and Bryan's Engagement Shoot

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 Way back in June, Lauren, Bryan and I set out to the country to take some engagement portraits.  We headed out to Chappell Hill, Texas for the afternoon and evening, and had a great time together.  Bryan is a long time friend of mine, so it was really neat for me to be able to do this for them.

Merry Christmas, everyone!  I'll be posting lots more from 2010 in the weeks to come...

 

Kate and JJ's Engagement Portraits

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It’s been months since my last post, and a lot has been happening around here!  I’ve got a lot of work to post from the last several months, and am excited to finally get it up on my site.  Stay tuned over the next couple weeks, we’ll be updating the blog and website with new work from this year that has not yet been seen.

 Also, some news from the studio...I now have a Studio Manager!  Kara started working for me in late October, and has been doing a wonderful job.  She is extremely talented, and has a natural eye for photography and design.  She’ll be helping me to get in a regular routine of posting to my blog, among lots of other things!
 
To start it off, here is a shoot from early November with Kate and JJ.  We had such a great time taking these photos.  On Friday, we headed to Kate’s family ranch, and began shooting Saturday.  I brought all of the tintype gear, and we spent the day on Saturday taking 8X10 tintypes.  For sunset we ventured up the hill to a place we had scoped out earlier in the day, and photographed until after sunset.  We had the most incredible light, and Kate and JJ did awesome!  Every time I look at these photos it makes me want to head back to the hill country.  After a great dinner, I made Kate and JJ pose for me one more time before going to bed, and we got the shot with the stars.  Being in Houston, I forget that all of those stars are up in the sky.  What a beautiful weekend.
 
On Sunday morning we got up early for sun rise.  It was cold, but well worth it.  The warm colors of the early morning were magical.
 
It was a wonderful weekend, and I have to thank Kate and JJ, and Kate’s family for hosting us all weekend.  They were such gracious hosts, and made our stay so comfortable and fun.  Also, a big thanks to Ed Cowan, who gave me a hand that weekend.

 

Scan of the original tintype plate

 

 JJ with his new pistol...Kate's family gave JJ this as a gift.  Welcome to the family, JJ. 

Scan of the original tintype plate

Scan of the original tintype plate

Antique Market

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About a month ago, my wife and I traveled to Round Top to go to this huge antique market that comes to town every year.  Antique dealers travel from all over the US for this showing, and set up their tents for weeks as people come view what they have.  I enjoy all the little pieces of history that you can find, the old record players, random farm tools, someone's post card album, old clocks and art, just to name a few.  I found an old brownie camera in one of the shops, but resisted the urge to buy.

We had a great day out there.  The best part of the day was sitting down to enjoy a piece of homemade chocolate meringue pie.

Hope you enjoy some of the photos I took...check out that awesome truck!