Florida Strobist Meet

I was honored to attend the first ever Florida Strobist Meet Sunday near Sebring, Florida. It was organized by two awesome photographers, Nick Haskins and Jake Carter. There were about 30 or so photogs there and 4 fabulous models. It was mainly to get together to learn about strobes and off-camera flash photography. I learned SO much and can't thank everyone enough for all their knowledge and advice. And it was also great to meet some really great photogs from all over Florida. And to put some faces to the names of people I admire and correspond with all the time. At the end of the day, Tiffany and her boyfriend Mike participated in a great Trash-the Dress session in the muddy swamp!!! Thank you two for being such great sports about it! I don't think I could have done what you two did! I'm still post-processing the pics and hope to have some up soon. Here are two group shots taken wirelessly by Nick's camera and about 4 wireless strobes.

One of the guys made a video clip of the entire day and it turned out AWESOME!! Check it out here.

Denise came along with her sister to this meet and wound up being one of our models!

Brody's 1st Birthday

I was thrilled to meet and photograph the cutest little guy ever, Brody, on his very FIRST birthday! I met him and his parents, Karen & Leif, in New Smyrna Beach at sunrise on Saturday. We had the most AMAZING sunrise ever! It was gorgeous and made for exquisite lighting. I came back that afternoon to photograph little Brody's birthday party with cake and presents. Here are a few of my favorites from this session.

All NEW Blog!!

Hi Everyone! Welcome to my AWESOME new blog! I can't thank Rudy Arpia enough for his amazing design and work he did on this. Not only is he talented at designing blogs, he's an amazing photographer from California. Check out some of his awesome work HERE.

I also want to give a shout out to Heidi McQuigg who did the all new Logo design above. She is awesome as well to work with. So anyone in need of a new logo, please contact her. Click HERE for info. She's super fast and had mine created and emailed to me within 24 hours! Thanks Heidi.

Thanks Rudy for doing such a fantastic job designing this in just a matter of days and being such a super guy to work with! And thanks everyone for stopping by! Please feel free to stalk here often :)

My Birthday

I had a great birthday with my mom, sister and nephew a few weeks back and I'm just now getting around to posting some pics. New Smyrna Beach has this new thing called the NSB Water Taxi. You get on in New Smyrna and it takes you down the Intercoastal Waterway to Ponce Inlet and back. It takes about 2 hours and you get great scenic views along the route in the shade of an open-aired boat. It was a perfect day and perfect weather, I couldn't have asked for a better birthday. Of course, my nephew had a blast!!! I absolutely love the ocean, sailing ... just being out on the water. Here are a few pics I snapped that day.