New Photos Posted: Moody Family

It's getting to be that time of year again where the weather is nice and the circumstances are just right to do outdoor photos again. Not too long ago though, I did complete a batch of photos for our friend that I still have yet to share. We took the photos at the Grand America, and they turned out fantastic. I just haven't had much time for blogging or really anything of that sort. Until I can share those photos with you though, here are some that I just finished up recently.

My sister and her husband just celebrated their fourth year wedding anniversary and wanted to do photos to celebrate the occasion. Last year on this same occasion, we did photos at Memory Grove when the cherry blossoms were in full bloom. This year, we did photos at the downtown library where there is always plenty of architectural interest to add dimension to any photo. I love the way the photos turned out with just the sort of dreamy edit I'm such a sucker for. 

New Photos Posted: Seth and Keesa Reception

Been long enough since we last posted photos, eh? Well, I've got some news for you. We've got some photos to share! First things first, let's start with that last wedding we posted about so many months ago. Really, a couple that translates "meant-to-be" throughout each and every series of photos we've done for them. These photos were taken on the evening of their reception. It rained the day before and the day after, I believe. But, somehow it managed to be the most perfect day for an outdoor wedding reception. Here are some of my favorite photos from the series (again presented to you courtesy of the couple themselves): 

           

New Gallery Posted: Honey

More lost photos from the past, this time we put honey on Christine.
Trooper that she is, she made it work with little to no fuss about the mess(it was actually pretty fun).

Below are a few of my favorites, but go check out the rest in the Honey gallery.

Featured Photographer: Kirsty Mitchell

So, according to our schedule, that sidebar widget to the right of this blog post that is supposed to act as an incentive for us to post on this web page regularly, Fridays are supposed to be "Featured Photographer" days. In the past, I have often selected well-known and extremely influential photographers that many photonauts like myself would be familiar with already, but after I have been browsing much through our Flickr contacts' photostreams recently, I have decided instead to feature some of the lesser known yet equally talented photographers out there who struggle just as much as we do to get some recognition for the work that they do.

Photography is a difficult representational medium for a great many reasons, one of which most definitely hinges upon the market being so densely saturated by any DSLR-toting schmo like either myself or Eric. I'm kidding about that last part. Remember sarcasm? Anyway, because the market is so saturated  by photographers (and photographer wannabes) while being at the same time so controlled by equipment limitations (consider the economics of photography here), many photographers out there will find themselves in the position to be posting image after image after image on sites like Flickr, Snapfish, and Photobucket, all in an effort just to get some of their work out there. And while there's absolutely no problem with anyone doing this sort of thing, it still has its limitations, i.e. their work still gets buried under the great mass that is any one of these web sites.

And while SEO marketing techniques can help to increase the exposure to any one of your photos, it's more generally the case that your photos must still fit within certain conventions in order for your work to be truly recognized as good (Flickr calls it "interestingness"). Well, I don't have a formula  for you as to what is good and what is not. And, I most certainly do not adhere to said conventions - either those referred to above or those of my own creation - in my own work to ensure that each of my photos can be deduced by simple (or not so simple) reasoning as my own. Again, it's an issue of how to delineate good art from bad. There's no one correct way to do so...

Anyway, I've gone on a tangent like I usually do. All in an effort just to say that instead of patting photographers on the back whose backs have already been patted so hard they've nearly bled to death (that's a joke), I would like now to redirect some of that attention to some of the photographers I've been exposed to through Flickr (which is not all bad).

Today's photographer is a photographer I admire very much. I wish I could do the kinds of things she's doing. Just check out some of her latest work:

Amazing, amazing work here! And she does it all herself with the exception of makeup and sometimes a little help from friends. Check out her Flickr photostream here, or check out her personal web site for more from this fantastic photographer!