A Little Christmas Spirit

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Brittany

This is Brittany and I used to photograph her when she was 6 or 7 years old for dance recitals. We went to her aunts house and did some of these that are by the barn. The seesions where we go somewhere that the senior wants to go always turn out great.

Mission Table

Here is a mission style table that I started some time ago. The table is made from Wormy Chestnut. The American chestnut tree was one of the most widely known trees in the US until and blight was brought in from imports and now there are only a few known trees left living. Old chestnut many times has holes in it where worms have burrowed through the wood. It actually makes the wood desireable. This was some wood a friend of mine gave me from trees that had been pulled from the KY River and then dried and sawed into lumber. This was basically the scrap that he had left from projects he had built so this was not the best quality but it was cool to be able to use it.

I have several projects that I have started and never finished. I am going back and trying to finish up some of these projects. I finished a small blanket chest and now the table. I love Stickley "mission or craftsman" furniture. I can remember the first time I saw a mission Prairie chair and settle(which is a long wooden couch with arms and back with cushions to sit on). I thought it was some of the coolest furniture. At the time I thought it was a new design someone had developed when it actually was a design that was close to 100 years old.

Tim Farmer & the Dells

this is an image of Tim Farmer and his band "The Dells". They play 50's music(Elvis, Jerry Lee, etc.) This was a shot that they will use with different backgrounds for posters etc. Tim Farmer is the host of KY Afield. The rest of the band is John Welsh- Guitar, Courtney Welsh-drums, Tim Sharp-bass, and Jason Miller-keyboards.



Here is a promo clip for KY Afield from YouTube.



This is a clip with the self proclaimed "Moron Brothers" You will love their houseboat.

Born To Be Wild

I was coming back through town on my bike(the pedaling kind) and saw all of these motorcycles out front of the bar that just opened and thought I would try to take a couple of photo's. I was able to get away just before all the bikers came out to break my neck thinking I was one of those FBI/police/narc spy types.

Patrick & Sara

Here are some images from Patrick and Sara's wedding. Paula and I had a great time photographing their wedding. Hope you like the images.

Kyle Petty Charity Ride

Here are some images of Kyle Petty and his charity ride that came through Lexington a couple of weeks ago.

Kyle Petty Charity Ride

Steve Parks - Nascar Driver and Herschel Walker

Kyle Petty Charity Ride

the coke bike is for when you get really thirsty

Fireworks

Here are some images I shot at the local fireworks show. I did actually get some traditional fireworks images but I liked these a lot more.

Beach Portraits

We Won!

In an earlier post I showed Brady's first hit in little league. This was the first year he played baseball after playing soccer for several years. Our year was nearly perfect. Brady got on a team with a great coach, great kids and they were pretty good at baseball as well. We came in second in the regular season and here is a picture of the kids after they won the tournament. Brady drove in a run so he was happy. Everyone who has been within earshot is tired of me talking about baseball so you might not want to bring it up unless you want to spend the next 30 minutes talking about our little league team.

Ellen & Jeri

Here are some images of Ellen and Jeri from their Senior portrait session. We had a lot of fun and their images turned out really nice. Ellen and her friend Jeri's session was fun as they kept saying 'can we climb in this tree? can we get in the creek? etc.' I need to have a contest for seniors for who can come up with the wildest idea!

Cruisin' with the dog...

Paula and I get a lot of grief from her sisters husband about our dog. He always says if he is ever reincarnated as a dog he wants to come back as our dog. I was driving down the highway and looked in my rearview mirror and saw this boxer with his own special set of goggles. The driver pulled through McDonalds and I turned around to get the shot to proove we are not as animal crazy as Terry(my brother in law) says. by the way does anyone know of a store that sells goggles.

Oliver North

Oliver North was in Lexington yesterday for a book signing. He had a pretty big crowd to see him and I really did not want to stand in line or buy a book to meet him so I just got a picture instead.