Remembering the Good Ole Days!

This is one of my newest old shots. The Palace Theater in Colorado City has to be one of the best thought of places around, with lots of memories for every generation. I loved doing this shoot and reflects some of Colorado City, Texas heritage.

Summer time is somewhat slow for a photographer, so I shoot things I love besides people. I love historic towns and buildings and I have come to realize they are gradually becoming a thing of the past. 

When The Cows Come Home

When The Cows Come Home. Although

I love photographing people, but sometimes I just love taking photos of natural things: nature, cows, sunsets, etc.

Photographing people no matter what age can be challenging. I feel that I'm more of the naturalist kind of photographer. I love people...all kinds of people and I don't care about their status quo, their beauty, their age, their color.... I just love people.

With that being said, people are the hardest to photograph. Do you photograph and edit the tar out of them? Make them look like something they might of looked like 25 years ago? Do you give them alien eyes that have NO resemblance to their own person?  I can do that, but why?

I guess I'm feeling like I am old school. I don't want to shoot a woman who has lots of wrinkles and do a total make over of them. I love the wrinkles because they show character and integrity. It is who God made them. Every mark or wrinkle signifies something about their life.

I have this fear with all the Photoshop or Corel tricks out there and being able to make something look like it is not, what happens in 20 years when these folks look back at their photographs they really do not look like. Nothing will be what it appears. There will be no real historic photographs. Kind of scary when you think about it.

Moonling Wedding

Weddings....Recently I had the privilege of shooting another wedding. I absolutely love shooting happy people. Whether moms to be, newborns, children, seniors or newlyweds. This was a moonlight wedding that was supposed to be a wedding at sunset. But as we all know, the West Texas sunsets do not wait for anyone and was gone in the blink of an eye.

This wedding broke my heart. One of those that you have great expectations for and then the bottom falls out. You know...we've all had them. Wind blowing 100 mph, sun setting too fast, family members missing and then....I have to smile. My tripod with my wonderful Canon Mark ii camera and Canon 100-400mm lens, along with my 580 ex flash goes crashing to the ground from my heavy duty tripod. I smile and pretend it's all ok as $5,000 worth of equipment hits a rock and lands into sand.

Ever have those times when you could just close your eyes and make it all be GOOD?