Daniel's Photo Blog

What do you call it when things just happen, what happens when you have great eye contact, what happens when the look is just right, what happens when you have what you think is the right light, the right mood... Sometime things just come together, this image was overlooked the first two times through... Should it have been, I think not, it has that MAGICAL feel to it.

So with me sharing this image, I hope you feel as inspired as I do when I look at it :) Comments welcome

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Taylor is coming of age and has graced us with a wonderful performance in the wheat fields, I have been wanting to shoot this type of image for a long time, the weather was just right but I had to work fast to capture the images before the sun left us...

Hey FYI If anyone is looking to keep up with my current portfolio here is a link to my ModelMayhem Page

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Well not really, but Jessi is not wasting anytime getting down to business on Laura's neck.

Having these two wild and crazy gals in the studio was a pleasure, and it's one of those things that you just don't want to end.

I have more ideas with both of them in mind and cant wait till we secure all the props needed to make it happen :)

Jessi had a chance to show off her new hairdo and I think she is a killer (pun intended) with it.

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Well I have been trying to get this combo together for some time now so with nerves frayed and a bit of sweat on my brow I got the dynamic duo in one place and the result is quite good if I say so my self...

I had to fidget the shot some in Photoshop but the work was well worth the results, let me know what you think about the newest grand kids portrait!

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Meet Jessi, a real classic beauty she has found her way to the Digital Darkroom and has had some wonderful images so far.

I am looking forward to working with her again soon, she is a cutting edge girl that's not afraid to take a walk on the wild side...

So far this year I have had many new faces to cross in front of my camera, I think 2008 is turning out to be a killer year for the studio, I have many more new folks booked so I am just waiting for them to show up.... I have many an idea up my sleeve for some of the luckier ones :)

Looking for feedback as always. Here are some from Jessi's session.

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I am having a hard time dealing with the facts of what transpired here the night of February 5th.

As we always do when there is "bad weather" we tune in the local yahoos weather station to listen to what might happen type of forecast.

I look at the weather map as they show it and it looks like it is going to slide to the north of us, well I was right it did, but by only 300ft way to close!

We heard the roar, the lights went out, we all were in the floor in the bathroom when our ears popped like we were coming down in an airplane, then we heard the breaking of glass....... then, silence..................... not a sound!

Coming out of the bathroom I went to see what glass broke and we found a tree branch had been shot through the bedroom window, glass all over the place! we also found the back sliding glass door shattered. Going outside it was so dark but we could see the houses across the street had the carports sagging. On a round around the building we could not get into the back yard as the fence had been knocked down, the big tree in the back yard was not there! it was now moved into the neighbors yard.

Little did we know the extent of the damage till we came outside the following morning to be greeted to the mess left behind by an F4 tornado in all directions we could see damage and total destruction, but in all of this no one was hurt in our neighborhood? Here is a gallery of images from "the day after" the one image on this page if you look close you will see a Lexus and a restored Corvette lying under a pile of rubble.

The gallery is large so allow time for it to download all the images.

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Well here we are 2008 and I am still at it taking photos. I have developed a style and I have been working to get it perfected.

I look back and I see that I started doing the "studio" thing back in January 2006 and my first subject was Shawn, now I look back at the images from that day I am so surprised at the amount of distance I have came...

I owe so much to her for getting me going again on this passion I call photography, I have to shoot it just feels right! But I have to do it my way, and she along with a long list of others that have been here to help me come up with a style that is in short "breathtaking"

Mood.... that's what I try to set with my lighting and the way I capture the images and I hope will go on long after I am gone. I try to make a mark that someone will be able to look back at and say that I created a mood or stirred a feeling.

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