Wiggle Worm!

Yesterday was a great day for family pictures at the park. Also a great day for finding worms and imitating them.
















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Bert!

Last Friday I had lunch with Gabe Mass at Nasia's. As always I took some pictures afterwards. This one Bert captured the spot light!



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Jessica and Chris

This morning I met with Jessica and Chris at Benjamin Harrison Park in Lawrence for engagement pictures. It gave me the opportunity to try out a new lens, the much sought after Canon 24mm f/1.4 L mark II.
























Chris and Jessica were great! The lens not so. If I could use a hammer analogy it just wasn't getting the job done. Too many out of focus pictures for my money. Jessica and Chris, I had a great time and look forward to shooting your wedding day! Believe it or not I was able to finish all your pictures and find time to return the lens. Wow! Hope you like them. See you soon.
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Jamie and Donnie

Sunday was Jamie and Donnie's day for engagement pictures. It was a perfect evening for pictures downtown in Indianapolis. After rescheduling for better lighting, 5pm was still a little too harsh, I was confident that we would get great pictures. I had met Jamie and Donnie through her brother's recent wedding and was sure that I would be able to capture both of their fun outgoing personalities.



The evening shoot flowed from one pose to the next as we walked along the downtown park making our way to the circle.



This one on the steps of the War Memorial has to be my favorite. Very natural looking. I don't think they even noticed someone taking a picture of them.














A fun and great evening. Donnie and Jamie, thank you for making it easy. Andy
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Location:Indianapolis

A Royal Wedding

Last Saturday I had the wonderful privilege of shooting Brian and Chelsea's wedding. It was at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Indianapolis. What a beautiful church.
Chelsea's day started at Choices Hair Salon in Greenwood.




Then it was off to the church to finish with make up and dress!









While Chelsea was getting ready Brian was going over details with his best man.



















At the end of the day it was a success! A beautiful day and a beautiful wedding. I could tell everyone was having fun at the reception! All these elements makes my job of getting great photos so much easier. Thank you Chelsea and Brian for choosing me as your photographer. Congratulations and enjoy your honeymoon.

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It's Another Birthday!

Today I had another opportunity to shoot the Frame family. They have been one of my more consistent costumers and I really do appreciate there business. It was Hunter's second birthday and boy has he grown up. It's funny how this job really reminds us of time and daily changes. The birthday party also gave me a chance to get the "Girls" together. This seems to be turning into a tradition for them. With natural lighting flooding in from the open glass walls this one shot looks like a glamour shot from a beauty dish and high speed strobes would produce. Not bad from a Panasonic GH-2 and available light! Well, once again I had a great time. Thank you James and Amie.

Panasonic Leica Summilux 25mm f1.4

Yesterday my order for the Leica Summilux 25mm f1.4 arrived. Few things I noticed after briefly playing with it on my GH2. It is extremely sharp, and it focuses very fast regardless of available light! Wow what a wonderful addition to the m43's system. This will definitely be my "normal" go to lens.




Here is an example just how sharp this little lens is. Shot nearly wide open at f1.6. Not sure why I didn't shoot wide open. Maybe it was my little faith from lenses of my past.
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Yashica 124G

Yesterday I stopped into Robert's, our local camera store here in Indianapolis, and picked up my negatives that I had recently shot using a newly acquired Yashica 124G. This was exciting since it meant the first for a number of reasons. My first with a Yashica camera and my first for shoot with medium format film. Everything coming up to this point was basically trial and error. Ok I have to admit that I did use the Internet for some help but I still had many uncertainties. Did I load the film right? Am I advancing the film correctly? These may seem silly to some but these are things that I have taken for granted in my digital packed lifestyle. Let's not even think about exposing correctly. Well, when I got the negatives I was extremely surprised. Hey, that old incident light meter really works! I thought TTL was the only way to get perfect exposures. Granted I had to slow down, think about what I wanted, and finally "click" the picture. But I think that's what makes using the Yashica so charming. Yes I said charming. It's a change of pace and an opportunity to recharge my artistic side as well as my technical side of photography. Remember you have to think before you click.




Now I've heard that we've surpassed film digitally long ago. And in this I mean medium format vs. digital. So it was no surprise when after scanning the negatives they didn't have the detail or near the snap that I get from my Sony Nex5n. But none the less I was still very pleased. In fact, so pleased that I'm going to incorporate my Yashica into some photo shoots.




I think my next roll I'll try Roberts scanning service in conjunction with their developing service. Incidentally there was a large scratch on one of the negatives and it was the lab technician's opinion that it occurred during processing. So Roberts didn't charge me for the processing. Kudos to Roberts on good business practices.

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Walking away.....letting go

Art can be many things. They can be used as a statement. To create a reaction or an emotion. But sometimes they can be neither but a tool for letting go. Art can be many things...


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Location:Greenwood,United States