Palm Sunday

God's sanctuary on this peaceful and quiet Spring morning.












Dogwood, tulips, green moss, and mayflies perched under the new leaves of the buckeye...

Biodiesel

What, did you expect beautiful pics of canola fields, with the yellow petals waving in the blue sky? Not this time. We are going straight to the cavitator. This beauty is the product of the intelligence and hard work that makes up the Piedmont Biofuels Industrial crowd. I'm always proud to have a chance to work with them.

Jill and Brandon

I photographed Jill and Brandon's wedding with Steve Exum this past Saturday in Greensboro, NC. These two were so kind and so much fun that they made the rainy spring day into a joyful wedding day. It was so wet that the poor muddy dog had to stay outside of the house and the camellias glistened beautifully in the rain. You can see an interior picture of the church they got married in in the previous post. These images are some of my favorite from the day. Everything looked so lovely that it was hard to narrow down what to post. Enjoy!

Quinceanera

I came early to the church at a wedding I was photographing last Saturday (images to be posted soon)... a service for this girl's quinceanera was just finishing. In spanish class growing up, I was always fascinated with the quinceanera, which is the celebration of a girl's 15th birthday. It is basically her debut into the adult world. I love how this girl's dress was over the top and she had a huge entourage of boys to match! Interesting stuff. I'd love to sharpen up my spanish speaking skills, which are pretty rusty at this point, and photograph a quinceanera.

Simon

The Chatham Record here in Pittsboro, NC interviewed my fiance, Simon Lobdell, about his experience with Lyme Disease. This county has many ticks and also many people who contract tick-borne illnesses. I photographed Simon out in the forest this morning so that the newspaper would have an image to go along with their story.

Spring - looking forward to Summer Camp!

Ahhh... nothing says spring like the sounds of chirping frogs and croaking toads. I gave a presentation at Pecha Kucha on these guys, Bufo americanus, by showing an audio visual slideshow the other week at the City Tap. I had a hard time distinguishing these toads from the Southern Toad because their range meets where I found these guys. Based on their phenotype and the fact that I found these toads in a stream (the Southern Toad apparently never mates in streams), I decided these were American Toads.

I will be leading a Summer Camp course this year at Our Neighborhood School in Pittsboro, NC. I will be taking the children on adventures in BioPhotography. I will teach them the fundamentals of photography, and they will get to learn the biology behind anything in nature that interests them while they photograph their desired subject. If you would like to learn more, please call me at 336-972-0097, or Donna at 919-545-0900.

Layne Sizemore's Photography

Well, I've noticed that I hardly have any photographs of myself! I haven't had a portrait session done of me since I was about the age of six, which is ridiculous. My friend Layne Sizemore took me out to walk around in the fields around my house to photograph me. Check it out at her blog http://layesizemore.wordpress.com.

Mardi Gras 2009!

Mardi Gras 2009 photos have just been published! Go to www.collages.net

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Thank you my colorful creative community for posing for these photos! I had a blast photographing all of you. Thank you Abundance and ChathamArts for putting on the event. Also, thank you Simon for helping me set up, photograph, stay on my toes!

Drew and Vaughan

At the Sarah P. Duke Gardens in Durham last weekend, spring was doing its best to be in season by putting out little blooms of color here and there. Drew and Vaughan met me in the gardens to take some engagement photos. A chilly, but pretty day...









(Thank you Simon for helping me with the photo session!)

O'Keefe Pottery

One of the great things about living in Chatham County, NC is the community of artists that call this area home. This particular artist, Lara O'Keefe, trained locally under Mark Hewitt and then branched out to start her own business. I spent a morning with her, observing her work in her craft. I was amazed at how strong and beautiful her arms and hands were. I'm sure that is gained from a combination of picking up her little child and from kneading the clay that is formed into her pottery. Lara has created a beautiful studio to work in which is in a little outbuilding that is surrounded with a garden. This building is just outside of her charming old farm house. You can see in the last picture that Lara is standing in front of a wood fired kiln that she built herself! Again, I am amazed! This photography session reminded me how wonderful it is to work with fellow artists, the inspiration lasts far beyond the photo session.

Kariann and Nathen

I was going through some of my images from last year and this one caught my eye. I photographed these guys when I was working for Steve Exum. They had gotten engaged at Duke Gardens so we came back in the peak of Autumn to get good colorful images for their engagement photos. Steve is photographing their wedding which is coming up this year, I know they'll have a wonderful wedding....

Howie DeWitt!

These fine cowboys and I went out to the ranch on a cold winters day to get some promo shots for their band, Howie DeWitt. I know all the girls love a good cowboy, so here you go. Anyway, everyone should come to Moncure to check out their music, or at least visit them on their Myspace page. We grow em good here in North Carolina!