ESPN Charleston Classic

Earlier this month I had the honor of being ESPN's official photographer of the Charleston Classic. This is the second year of this college basketball tournament. And it's my second year photographing it!

Here are a few shots from the Welcome Banquet aboard the USS Yorktown...

Team coaches with ESPN Commentators Jay Williams and Justin Kutcher.

Jay Williams delivers the Keynote Address.

Special guest Rachel Edwards, a cancer survivor at MUSC, poses with Coach Darrin Horn of the University of South Carolina.

Each team got their photo on the deck of the historic USS Yorktown.

Sony Ericsson WTA Tour

As the year comes to a close, I begin to look forward to photographing the Family Circle Cup in the spring. Here's a shot of Sabine Lisicki I photographed last year that has just been featured on the official Sony Ericsson WTA Tour website at: http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/page/OffCourtNews/Read/0,,12781~1892475,00.html

Jody's Bridal Portraits

I had an AWESOME TIME photographing Jody's Bridal Portraits a couple weeks ago! We drove down to Walterboro where we had received permission to photograph at Bonnie Doone Plantation. It's such a beautiful place with the most dreamy Spanish Moss covered oaks! On top of that, Jody's dad brought along his amazing new Dodge Charger. I couldn't help doing a few poses with the bright red muscle car juxtaposed against the soft green tapestry and draped with a beautiful bride in her flowing white gown! :-) Jody was so much fun to work with. I can't WAIT to photograph her and Gerald's wedding!!!

Lee's Baby Dedication

I recently had the honor of photographing Lee's 4-month portraits. His baby dedication was this past weekend at Ashley River Baptist. This was one of the photos they selected to be projected on the huge LCD screen of him during the service. What an ADORABLE young man!!! Congratulations Chad, Denise, and big brother Thomas! :-)

Joy & Michael's e-Session

Joy & Michael got married yesterday in a FABULOUS wedding aboard the Carolina Girl Yacht! While Cami & I are madly editing the TONS of images I shot, here's a really cute image of them from their Engagement Session. Oh, and this doesn't even show their beautiful parrots and all their fish. :-)

High Dynamic Range Photography

High Dynamic Range (or HDR) photography has fascinated me for some time. So I finally decided to take a crack at it. It involves photographing a series of bracketed exposures of the same image, then merging them together.


I used a popular HDR program called Photomatix. Here are a couple of my first attempts from last week. Any thoughts or suggestions on what I could do different?!?

Adrienne's Bridal Portrait

I photographed Adrienne's Bridal Portraits the other day. Isn't she UNBELIEVABLY beautiful?!? We got so many awesome images from her shoot! This was one of the very first ones.

I loved how this shaft of late afternoon sunlight was making the fuzzy ferns glow. So while she was in the changing room, I had figured out that I wanted to place her here where her veil would get that same angelic rim light. Then I popped up a Nikon SB-800 in a small EZ-Box on a Bogen 3333 lightstand off to her left. (Ask me why her left next time you see me.)

Here's the "before" without the SB-800. I had a slight warming filter on the remote flash and triggered it via a set of Radio Poppers. They were shot with a Nikon D3 and 70-200 f2.8.