Earth & Sky

This portrait is from a photo shoot I did for GoMemphis about a Ballet Memphis performance at the Memphis Zoo.



Caption: (left to right) Julie Niekraz and Travis Bradley perform with Ballet Memphis in “Connections: Earth & Sky," three new, modern short works and will be performed in the grove just outside of Teton Trek at the Memphis Zoo.

Hitchhicker

Going my way?


Parkour


Bracing


Woosh!

CERTifiable

Here are a collection of images I shot this morning from a CERT, Community Emergency Response Team, graduation class where they ran through scenarios of locating and aid victims of a disaster, like a tornado, in internal and external environments.

Spring Cleaning

I want to share some images I shot on assignments from the past couple months as I prepared to clean off my computer and throw these into archives. I've included the captions if want to know what's what.

Work & Play

Workers Union March

Here are a sample of images I made of a march in Memphis honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hosted by AFSCME.

Contact Sheet: SOS

So, I want to do another contact sheet post for this assignment I did on a ministry called S.O.S. which does volunteer home repair in Urban areas. When I shoot, I ideally like to fill the frame with as many compositional layers as possible. I love layers because of the depth they add to an image, if done successfully. Not all layers rest on the surface, sometimes it's a look or posture of a solitary person in the shot which can say than if the image was crowded. Other times layers are a visual game of connect the dots as the eye to moves around in the frame. I don't think these images are the best examples of layers, but once again I wanted to show my visual thought process a little with an assignment and put my own editing skills under scrutiny. So, if anyone wants to, tell me which image you like the most and why. One of the problems of being a freelancer is that you are kind of left to your own devices on refining how you see. The reason the last one is in color is to show you which one I chose. Let me know if having it in color throws off you how you choose because I think I want to do more of these kinds of posts in the future.