zee snow angel...

So my roommate, Tomasz, was just talking about how they don't really get much snow in his corner of France, and he's been waiting for a good snow to do his snow angel. Since any snow we've had this year thus far has melted within the day (and before i got home with my camera) he's been a little disappointed...but not today! So, in our winter snow storm and at least a foot of snow, he didn't hesitate and jumped right in....because you know, if there are footprints to the angel, it's not really an angel...

On the day Elena was born...

Photos of John and Sara's hospital stay waiting for the birth of their baby girl... All are doing well...

All smiles early in the day...

Sara dealing with others taking over her body...

John modeling the take-home outfit...

how else does a photographer deal with stress?

Or not...

a long day, but sticking together...good job mom&dad!

Personification of inanimate objects

I think I confused a friend of mine while chatting about the first time we had met. After a night of photos, bottles of champagne and a night walk on the beach, my room key ended up lost. Instead of trying to find it, and with the front desk closed (this wasn't a Holiday Inn, or the U.S.) it seemed best to just climb in through an open window in my room. I think I lost him when i started talking about how when i think of that beach, i think of a lone room key stuck in the sand smiling, if it could, at the thought that two people were more into eachother and remembering the last unopenned bottle of champagne then the room key. I know it's just my (your adjective here) way of wanting to assign and share the emotions with inanimate things, and i'm okay with that...perhaps that's why i like rocks so much (how's that for an introduction?) Fisherman Island's State Park south of Charlevoix, one of the best rock-hunting areas in lower Michigan. Although it looks like i was too late for dinner, i did find a petoskey for Louis' bday. Happy birthday Louis!
The Mackinac Bridge. This bridge freaks me out every time, so i just try to ignore it by photographing it as i cross, had a driver this time...which is probably best for everyone.

Halloween @ The Comet Bar in Detroit

The Comet Bar in Detroit, it's a year-round Vet, Christmas, Marlyn Monroe bar...perfect setting for Prince to spin a lil old school Detroit techno on Halloween night...

Kentucky People

Tonight's wallflower is played by Jon...good job Jon, way to look longingly into the sea of dancers...I think this is the only one where he isn't smiling...
ladies or video camera, Brian was working the room with both!
photo "students" that were in my group, under the direction of Bob Lynn. Left to right, Yanina & Jacob K., Gen & Jacob K., bacardi & Jacob...
I forgot how much fun it is to hang out with people who like getting their photo taken...and will even take yours! left w/ Jonathan Y. right w/ Jacob K.
One of these peeps won the Pulitzer this year...hint? she's a she...

Subjects I photographed
while in Kentucky.

Kentucky Things

The longest time I've spent in Kentucky, here's a couple things from Boyle (pronounced 'bowl') and Casey Counties.
According to most meteorologist, this has been the driest year for Kentucky since the dust bowl. Carroll and Doris remember this creek over-flowing, now it's just dry rock...and a few things that were left behind.
Carroll's uncle died in a farming accident almost 50 years ago. Carroll drove his truck until it wouldn't work, now it's becoming a flower pot.
A very cool shack, my guess is it was a holding place for tobacco, right next to the railroad track, painted and decorated with lots of art work.
Hand guns at the door...in sock drawers, in cabnets, bedside and scatterred throughout the house.

Tobacco dries in a barn, according to Carroll, when you hang tobacco the best place to be is on top, you have less work to do.


I asked Doris not to bother to make breakfast, but I had a feeling Carroll wasn't going to eat all that ham...

Horses hang out along the county road.

Tobacco stalks dry in a barn painted black in Casey County.

Alec & Kristee

Favorite subject of mine & amazing friend, Kristee, finally got her son to agree to get some photos taken for his senior portrait. He was a little awkward initially, didn't work it like his momma, but ended up getting the hang of it near the end...now if we can get him to put on her white wig!