Amy & Ryan get Trashed

Early morning photoshoots are not my thing... I think the world knows that by now, but I always love the results when I actually do an early morning shoot... the light is really very pretty, especially by the beach.


Getting up at 5am - $0

Showering while half asleep - $0

Driving to St. Augustine in the dark - $0

Amy & Ryan's early morning session on the streets of St. Augustine - Priceless

Amy & Ryan Trash The Dress (sneak peak)

think getting up at 5am was worth it... what do you think?

More BT Favs!!

I honestly can't wait to do more BT styled shoots in the future... I have one planned and another one cookin in the brain for sometime in September... but for now here are some more favs from BT, some you may have seen, some I don't think I've ever published...

Kati's Getting Married!!

Hey guys, ya'll remember Kati? My awesome BT model....




She's getting married in November!!!

Keep your eyes pealed for their E-Session coming up in June!!!

I'm so excited!

Revisiting My 1st Jacksonville Bridal Photography Session

wow that's a long title... I hate thinking up titles... but I hear it helps in Google searches? LOL

Anyway, Liz has pretty well opened her shop for Couture Wedding Designs and asked me for some photos... Well I had forgotten that I had a couple of large prints from the expos I attended in like 2007!! LOL and one of my all time favorite bridal shots was from my first real "mock" bridal session.

When I started my business I knew I couldn't just say.... "hey I do a pretty good job at this photo taking thing but I've got nothing to show you... BUT I promise I'm good" so I started nagging friends to either get into a wedding dress that I purchased or one of their own....

Krystal volunteered to wear a dress that I purchased from e-bay (and that my bride Donna later purchased for her own wedding) Anyway, this loooong email is to show you this.....

My fav bridal shot!!!!!

Teaser from Miami!!

I'm still catching up on things from my trip, but I wanted to post a teaser from my trip to Miami...

This is my fav shot from the Liz' bridal session in Miami...


More to come.... someday... when and if I catch up before we leave for Pennsylvania....

P.S. the sessions from Miami will be going up on the breaking tradition blog when they are complete so to see more be sure to follow the BT blog!

New Level of Bridal Photo...

I feel like I'm reaching new points with my work, it's amazing... I feel myself developing and understanding and learning and applying and I LOVE it...

I so strongly encourage brides to find beautiful locations for their bridal shoots. Shelly found us this location and I have to say it was quite awesome. Choosing photos as favs from this shoot was really really hard. I've decided not to do a slide show with this post as I've picked very dramatic favs and feel that a slide show would just be too much....

I've applied something new to these photos, a texture effect which is pretty cool I must admit...

All photos were taken at The Carling, a stylish and beautiful apartment building in downtown Jax....

To quote Rachel Zoe (I'm unhealthyly addicted to Bravo)

These shots are "bananas!!"

Jenny's All Wet

So... We had the best time trashing Jenny's wedding dress... actually we didn't do all that much damage to it, it was pretty dirty already, if anything all the rain cleaned it up! LOL

Choosing fav's from this session was NOT easy! There are so many funny and awesome shots! Here are a few favs...

Look for the "out takes" in the slideshow!! It was buggy out and Jenny was a great sport!!! She even rescued me from the rain!! And I can't forget Christy who hates bugs more than anything she held the umbrella for me while we shot in the rain!!!! AWESOME girls!!!

We Wanted A Pool But Settled For Rain

Yep, the plans were to head to the Dr's Lake estate that I use from time to time, but due to some minor complications we were unable to use that location. SO I took Jenny to where I grew up... good ole Granniema's place! We had just gotten into everything Jenny was getting super comfortable, Christy ran from the gnats that were attacking her... and sure enough DOWNPOUR!!!! UGH, Grandma had even brought out the tractor for us to use! booooooo rain...

We still got some fun shots of Jenny all wet, which was the plan in the first place :)

If only everyone knew what was on the other side of this fence, if anyone has been there with me or knows where I grew up... ya'll know that Jenny is feet from...... (dramatic dum, dum dummmm) Dead People..... lol


I love this shot....



And as many of you know, if you read the blog or follow along on myspace, I'm in the middle of a revamp, logo, blog, photo signature etc etc... This revamp includes how look at my photo editing, what techiniques I use what I want to showcase... I tried a little something new here, well not new but out of the norm for me... and I frankly love it!!!!