Along with the Giles family, I had the pleasure of photographing the Funderburk Family at McDaniel farm last month. It was a bit chilly out but warmed up once we got into the sun. Lance and Malisa have a beautiful family that is continuing to grow with the adoption of Ally. Their four kids are so sweet, well mannered and seem to have a genuinely fun time with one another.
Couldn’t resist the photo opportunity…
Use the ScanLife (or similar) app. Then of course, add it as a bookmark. You’re gonna want to come here often.
It’s amazing the change 3 months can make on a baby. Braxton looked very different in our last shoot in comparison to now. Though he was expressive before, he sure makes some great faces now. I typically prefer to shoot with available light either outdoors or near big windows, but when it’s rainy and below freezing outside it can be fun to break out the speedlights and backdrop. These were all shot in the Romeyn living room with a black cloth backdrop. I had one Vivitar flash synced with a manual cord shooting through an umbrella as the key light and one Canon 580 EX on camera with a Ray Flash ring light attachment as the fill. Very simple 10 minute setup and 5 minute take down.
Not sure what he is doing in this one, but it really looks like he’s beating up another baby. “Gimmie my money!” 
I’ve owned the domain since college. Three years ago I re-upped it’s registration and I contracted my good friend Greg Vilines at Webnormous to begin work on the site. Then a combination of producing an album, playing in a band, get married, and having his house burn down slowed Greg’s progress on the site a bit. A combination of helping with the album, buying a house, running a photo business, general laziness, and getting engaged slowed me down too. I know my excuses aren’t as valid as a house fire, but regardless of the timing, it is finally LIVE!
Greg built the whole thing from scratch and he did a damn good job on it. I know I was a difficult client at times but in the end we got it all worked out. There will be a few tweaks made in the coming months, but since it’s 99% done, we figured why not launch it? This will be a soft opening for my six blog readers and facebook friends until I get it 100% finished.
Keep in mind the new site isn’t going to be a replacement for the blog- just think of it as a “best of Alex the Photo Guy.” I’ll still keep you up to date with my crazy photo antics here on the blog, so don’t stop reading!
Let me know what you think! Many thanks again to Greg who did all the hard work. All I did was take a few photos. If you need a website, let me know and I’ll get you in contact with Webnormous.
Two weekends ago, Keri and I drove to Brevard, NC to visit my grandmother. Brevard has recently become a vacation destination for “leaf lookers” in the fall as it is nestled in a valley in the Appalachian mountains. In addition to getting to see Brevard and Mimi, Keri and I also had just enough time on the way home to go on a 2 hour hike in the DuPont national forest. It’s pretty amazing to be able to see 3 very impressive waterfalls in a just a couple of hours.
I brought my new (used) camera along with a plan to test it out along with my new (new) 50mm f/1.4. Overall, very happy with the performance of the camera and lens, but still wishing I had a better eye for landascape and night photography. I’ll let you judge for yourself (all 4 readers). I think the waterfall pix would have looked better at sunrise, but I’m too in love with sleeping to go see something at the crack of dawn that I can see at the crack of 2pm…
Also found that my fisheye lens is a real fisheye on the full frame 5d. Here’s Looking Glass falls in Brevard:
Don’t know why, but I found this random streetlight and snowpile to be interesting…
One of the life-sized toy soldiers through the window at O.P. Taylor’s Toystore in downtown.
Photos of Rocky’s soda shop after hours. This is one of the places Mimi would hang out after school.
The stars above Mimi’s house (click on photo for larger view):
Triple Falls in the DuPont National Forest:
And of course, yet another “please don’t take a photo of me” photo of Keri. She loves these:
