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This image is for another small publication that sent me out to get images of owners of a roofing company last month.

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This is a magazine image from earlier this year. It was for a smaller specialty magazine. It almost makes one want to ask, "How many plumbers does it take to ...?" Really, the folks at Baker Brothers were very helpful and cooperative in pulling this together early one morning before scurrying out to the four corners on service calls.

Look for a few more updates in the same vein in the next week - roofers, fertilizers and a new variety of images from ongoing work at TWU.

If you want to learn about the awesome power of new technology in the photographic realm, you need the Joe McNally book "Hot Shoe Diaries".

The DVD he did for Nikon was a life changer for my technical abilities and opened doors of my imagination.

Someone just prodded me, chided me; so maybe I don't post here as much as I should. Heaven knows, I have been shooting some interesting stuff.

I am back in the construction swing at TWU, Texas Woman's University, here in Denton, Texas, with the new building and alterations to their Science Building structure.

I will start with an action shot of me from there, and look here in the next few days for updates from the past couple months of shooting for many different publications.

First news is that I have put out a new site for anyone looking to learn more about photography. It really does take learning to the highest level with live interactive lessons. The site is Live Photo Lessons, and it is intended to do two things - so read about it and see what those two things are.

I took a second look at Katelyn's portrait today and put a new spin on it. I think I like the black & white better than the previous image.

Well, as we enter into yet another holiday season, I was fortunate enough to have Katelyn come back into the Dallas Studio for what is obviously a pregnancy portrait. She is so game when it comes to trying new things, and it shows in the photography. The shoot went long due to some last minute energy and I just had to give something different a try.

September means the year is wrapping down, and what a year it has been. There are still some weddings on the books for the remaining months and many more magazine shoots have come and gone in just the past few weeks.

Twenty years ago, the mantra for photographers was "Specialize Specialize", meaning specialize in a look, a style or whatever, and people would beat down a path to your door trying to get some of your special sauce. I never bought into that, thank goodness, and in the intervening years many of the specialists have come and gone. As I evolve, I still cannot pigeon hole my love of photography into one vein, one style, one venue.



This year has brought on many more magazine accounts, exponentially more, and the beginnings of inroads into the rare air of working for agencies. It also awakened me to how little potential exists locally, and how effective the internet is in reaching out to people who needed my services - all the new magazines are based outside Texas! What little real (corporate) work exists in this town is still under the control of do-it-yourself folks and cut rate cut quality hobbyists.



One area that has always interested me is the UNT Sports photography contract, and it is a strange and slippery thing to get one's mind and fingers around the intricacies of finding the call for a bid, creating a viable bid, breaking through the status quo, while jumping through all the hoops that any government contract always contains. So, after completely missing the bid this year, I am embarking on a rebuild of the sports portfolio for next year's (if it opens up) bid. Fortunately I hit the ground running with a shoot of TWU vs. Kansas State soccer at TWU last Sunday. Will this stir things up a bit? Doubtful, as eyes in these parts are conditioned for no change on any level - the path of least resistance.

Labels: denton sports, texas womans university, twu soccer, UNT sports