Cotton Field

While hiking in the Fracis Beidler forest, on my surprise birthday excursion organize by Liz, we saw this cool cotton field and had to stop for a couple of shots. 

Battle of Secessionville

I had the pleasure of being hired to photograph the Battle of Secessionville at Boon Hall this year. These were some of the friendliest and most hospitable people that I have ever met. I went with the idea of spending a few hours covering the event and then heading home later in the afternoon but with five offerers to stay around for lunch and then dinner and then there was a ballroom dance, well I ended up staying until early the next morning. Here are some of the images. (sorry about the music, I only had one good song that would work with the images so it repeats a few times)

Brandon and his guitar

Loved this shoot. Brandon is a musician here in Charleston playing a lot of local gigs. The last place I remember seeing him play was the Village Tavern over in Mt. P. Anyway, Brandon wanted to get some promo shots before he left to go to a worship arts college in Florida so we shot these the day before he left. We had so much fun shooting we didn't realize that we had been shooting for hours. He said it was a great way to spend his afternoon before he left for college, "Time flies when you're having fun."

 

Thuy, Russ and Baby Patterson

We had a great time photographing Thuy and Russ Patterson's maternity session the other day. Thuy is a fantastic floral designer. Her company Jade Water Designs is right here in the Park Circle area. I remember I had just gotten a bad cold the night before and was pretty loopy the first part of this shoot. They were so nice and totally put up with my slower than usual pace and somewhat obscure banter while we were shooting. They even laughed at all my jokes, so sweet. Despite the sickness we got some beautiful images and Thuy and Russ loved them. Baby Lillian Patterson was born two weeks after the shoot, good timing.  

"Epiphany" Opera in Park Circle

So I received a call from Mary Gould, of South of Broadway Theatre Company, a few weeks back and she tells me "I just got the call, we have the front page of the Preview on Christmas Day and need a promo shot by noon tomorrow." I love a challenge and in media "noon" means in the a.m. if you want to keep your spot on the front page. We wanted to highlight the upcoming opera "Epiphany" which would be opening on January 31st to bring in the new year as well as introduce the new program Opera Zone, a lecture series held at the Charleston County Public Library. So the next morning we had our coffee, set up some light, and shot this image for the paper. Thank you to Marcus over at the P&C Preview for getting the work out about the thriving art scene here in North Charleston and especially in Park Circle.