Going Nonstop.

So. I am a really terrible blogger. I'm just going to come out and say that. This is partly because aside from photography, I own a business called The Grass Being Greener (TGBG) with a friend of mine and we have been doing a lot of work planning a couple of events coming up. We also took our first business trip recently: from March 12 to 14, we attened the Harvest of Hope Fest in St. Augustine, FL. Thanks to Jeffrey Bützer and Tom Cheshire of Dry Ink Mag, we were granted press passes and got to conduct lots of interviews and take lots of pictures. These are all coming soon and will be posted on the TGBG site.

Since our return, I have been crazy busy with photo shoots, printing, framing, editing, and traveling. Here is a bit of what I have done:

(03/18) Kennesaw State University's Africa & African Diaspora Studies Conference:

(03/19) 7th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium at Spelman College:




(Several Days) Land of a Thousand Hills coffee shops marketing photos:



(03/20) Shots of Roswell for Roswell Day of Hope:
(03/30-04/04) Road trip to Alexandria, VA, to shoot my cousin Jason, his wife Dawn, and their new son, Parker (probably one of the chillest babies I've ever seen):

The whole road trip is an entry in itself. I'll try to do that in the next day or so. Keyword is 'try'.

Marium Headshots

I went out last week to do some head shots of my friend Marium. The pictures turned out great, my only regret is that I couldn't take pictures of our topics of conversation which included religion and Wonder Woman.

KID STUFF!

Here are some shots from Kid Stuff at 529 in East Atlanta. Probably one of the highest energy bands I've seen. It's obvious that have one goal in mind: to dance and have fun. Okay well two goals. As I was saying...pictures...

The Collective's Rising Sons and Bang! Arts Promotions

Pretty eventful weekend. Did some production shots for The Collective's Rising Sons on Friday evening and then went down to Eyedrum for Bang! Arts' company launch party where my friend Aaron Whitehouse was playing and had some work on display.

Bang! seems like they are going to be doing some good things for art and our community. Definitely worth keeping an eye on. Here are a couple Rising Sons shots and then a couple of some trapeze/aerialist action as well as Aaron from Eyedrum.

The Collective's Voodoo Revue

The Collective held their fund/awareness raiser for their upcoming production Rising Sons last Saturday. They held it at a local artist compound/co-op/studio/living space/farm called The Goat Farm. It was an old New Orleans style Mardi Gras event complete with music, dancing, fortune telling, magic, living art, a clown, someone being resurrected from the dead, and someone being crowned king. Oh. And a Voodoo Dragon. You had to be there to believe it. Here are a couple of my favorite shots, but to see the whole album click here.

Self Portrait Update

Here are a few photos to be added to my Self Portrait. I find it funny that as I grow older I expect to be more independent and able to take care of myself. The complete opposite has happened. I need those in my life more than ever. Thanks to everyone that lets me stick my camera in their face.

White, Fluffy Precip

It's been snowing for the past couple of days. It's funny how people around here (and other places I've lived that don't normally experience snow) freak out at the mention of snow. Businesses close. Schools close. They just don't know how to handle it. On my drive home, about 2 hours after it had started snowing, I drove past someone who had slid into a ditch. It's just funny to me, that's all.

On my drive home I came around this turn that I had driven around numerous times before, but for some reason the snow on the ground made it just unfamiliar enough to make me look at how interesting it is. So I swung around to take a picture. I ended up spending about half an hour taking a few long exposures and while I was out there I was approached by a teenage boy that was looking for his friends. I told him that I had seen a couple of people up the street and he went off to investigate. He walked up the road that I was shooting, leaving footprints on the side of the road with snow on it. I continued to shoot, incorporating the visual element that he gifted me, and after several minutes he came back down without anyone.
"Didn't find them?" I asked.
"No."
"That's a bummer," I replied.
"You a photograph-er or somethin?"
"Yup."