Ok… I’ve never been real big on New Year’s resolutions, but I’m determined to be a better blogger.  I figured if I did a public post about it, then someone in the “cloud” would hold me accountable.  Or… at least I can tell myself that.  So… my resolution is to blog a couple times a week.  Sometimes it will be from shoots, sometimes it will be stuff that’s on my mind, sometimes it will be fluff just to meet my couple posts a week :-)  Happy 2009 everyone!

Had a chance to do an engagement session with Jessica & Adam this past weekend.  They’re getting married next May in Wheeler.  We had a good time even though Adam really didn’t want to get his picture made.  He cooperated long enought to at least get a few good shots.  Here are a few that I liked from the session..

Last weekend I got to spend the day with Kate & Edward for their outdoor wedding.  It was pouring rain when I left Amarillo so I wasn’t optimistic about the event being held outdoors.  Once I got close to Canadian though it let up and stayed away all day.  We had some really nice cloud cover though that was perfect portrait light.  The wedding was at Kate’s family’s house and they are really great people.  I wanted to share a few images of the wedding and also the bridals since I didn’t get to post them ahead of time (so Edward couldn’t see them).  Click on the image below to view the slideshow…

I love this place!  The sad thing is that it’s like 10 miles from my front door and we hardly ever go.  A lot of photographers here in the Amarillo area do portrait sessions at Thompson Park, medi-park and other pretty locations. I’ve been wanting to do something a little different so I’m planning a family portrait day at Palo Duro Canyon for Saturday, November 8th.  Portrait session fees will be waived for this day only so there’s no excuse for not having pictures of your family.  Call today to reserve your session. 800.260.9705. Also, scroll down to read about the weekend I’m doing in Canadian, TX…

I’ve a had quite a bit of interest by families over in the Canadian area about doing family portraits so we are going to do a portrait weekend October 24th & 25th.  For 2 days we are waiving the session fees!  This is a great opportunity to get that family portrait to hang above the fireplace or on a living room wall.  Canadian is beautiful this time of year.  Call today to reserve your session! 800.260.9705.

I got to shoot Jason and Diana’s wedding this weekend.. Man was it awesome.  There was so much diversity there.  The bridesmaids were a blast and the reception was amazing.  Thanks guys for letting me be part of your day.  Here is a slideshow of some of my favorite images.  Have fun on the honeymoon!

Diana & Jason are getting married in a couple of weeks.  We ran around a little bit last weekend and did some bridals of Diana.  I didn’t think I’d be able to post them until after the wedding but Diana said she broke down and showed them to Jason.  So… she said it was ok to post.  It was really fun and I was really happy with the final images.  These are a few of my favorites…

I had the opportunity to spend the day with Jennifer & Derek to shoot their wedding.  It was a hot July day, but things went really well… Thanks for letting me be part of your wedding guys.. Click on the image below to watch a slideshow of some of the images I liked..

I spent the day in Dallas yesterday and decided to stop in on David Jay’s “Free To Succeed” tour. It’s really interesting to hear philosophies from some of the big names in the industry.  DJ seems to be a really genuine guy and Jasmine has one of those personalities that everyone in the room just gravitates to.  I also got a chance to catch up with my buddy Kenny Kim.  We had a good lunch and dinner and then Kenny had to head back to Chicago this morning and leave the tour so he crashed on the couch in my suite.  We had dinner late after the show so it was like 1:15 before I got to bed and I had to get up at 4:50 to catch a flight.  Man.. I’m getting too old for late nights like that… Kenny’s never without his camera so I robbed a couple pics from his blog… 

Here’s a few of us on the tour bus after the show…

Kenny and me

I met Tammy Marcelain out in Orange County a few months ago… It was good to see her again as well..

Ok… so I just found out that it’s really painful to leave a comment on my blog.  After some investigation I figured out why and now I have it where you just have to leave you email address.  Sorry to everyone that’s been trying to comment (all 2 of you )