One person's answer to prayer is another's logistical nightmare

Today I photographed Will & Tori White's Wedding in Union City. Here's some portraits we did earlier in the week in Memphis. The weather indicated sunny skies, hot with classic Memphis humidity until Monday morning when a thunderstorm came out of nowhere. Well, it caught my iPhone's weather app off guard, and the storm threatened to ruin the shoot. I was scrambling to come up with alternative spots that could support some kind of shelter above us, with good light and were free. Turn's out that really isn't possible at the last minute, but I did manage to come up with a couple that were not my first choice, but would have functioned. After watching the clouds out my window move by and checking the doppler online, I decided to take my chances and go with my original plan. In the end, about 90% of the storm had passed before our scheduled time to shoot, so everything worked out and it left some nice overcast clouds to really soften the light. I found out during the shoot that Tori prayed for it to be not hot out when were shooting and she was well obliged.

Also, thanks to Natalie Newberry for helping me out for these portraits and thanks to Beth Spain for helping me out at the wedding today. Both of you are awesome.

Oh Henry

I recently did some photos of young Henry for leaders in my community group, Nick and Morgan Hayes. We had a get together at Morgan's parent's house and it was one of the coolest places ever. There were many fun things to work with like Pete the Great Dane or giant mailboxes in nice golden hour light. Probably the coolest of all was Henry's Star Wars onesie.

Storm's brewing. It's past now.

Some weather related photos from while I was out and about working.

Wasted Effort

There is a very loose, slightly ironic, connection between these photos from two assignments I covered today.

One was early in the morning down in Horn Lake, MS to cover the city's participation in the Great American Clean-Up and made this photo of young Alex Freeze hauling a bag of trash that was practically as big as him.

The second photo is for a business profile on hair stylist, Feras Hdaib, working on Jasmine Crew's prom hair. As I am finishing up with Feras, he tries to get me to schedule my own hair cut. I politely and professional dodged the question, but in my mind I was saying "STAY AWAY FROM MY GLORIOUS MANE!" Then Feras runs out of the salon to hand me a coupon to give to my girlfriend for a 1/2 off first visit.

So, if I don't have a girlfriend, then didn't Feras technically litter by giving me a coupon I won't use since I will ultimately throw it away?

I guess my day was garbage in and garbage out.

Pulling Up By Bootstraps

Photos from a wedding I shot over the weekend with Alison Ball.

Some Sass for Saturday

Met up with the Sassie Seniors as they were getting ready to perform in a parade. Project is still taking shape, hence these vague one-liners about them.

The Shape of Things to Come

I am beginning a project on a group women who call themselves, The Sassie Seniors, and oh yes, they are quiet sassy.