Christina

One more senior photo post...

I grew up with Christina's brother, Andrew, so it was a lot of fun to be able to spend some time taking her pictures!

Miles

I hope all are well this morning. Today I'm catching up on updating my website and blog with some fresh images. These are some of my favorites from Monday's Senior Portrait Session. I'll have a couple more posts throughout the day...

Lauren and Kim

Here are some more senior portraits that I took Monday and Tuesday of Lauren and Kim, two twin sisters. They wanted to stay indoors as much as possible (smart!), so we used a lot of window light. I got Kim to go outside for a while, and I think it was worth it. The lighting was perfect.

Hope you enjoy them! I'll post some more senior pictures tomorrow, and that church photograph that I mentioned last post. Have a great night.

Will's Senior Portraits

It is senior portrait season! The calendar is filling fast! If you haven't made an appointment yet, please give me a call.

Here are some senior portraits I took on Tuesday afternoon.

On another note, I was out a couple of weeks ago in Baytown, photographing commercial real estate. On the way to the site, I came across a really interesting and somewhat strange scene. There was a really pretty classic white church right next to this run down building on cinder blocks (the old church, perhaps, storm damaged?). Anyhow, the scene grabbed me, and I pulled over to make a couple of exposures with my 4X5 camera. I'll post the image of the church soon. I think it is going to fit into an ongoing project that I've been working on.

Yellowstone Academy

The past two springs I've worked with students at a Houston school called Yellowstone Academy, teaching them about photography.  Yellowstone Academy serves underprivileged children of Houston, and is an incredible place.  Check out their website, www.yellowstoneacademy.org, for more information.

I worked with the after-school program, 4th and 5th graders, and would teach once a week, every Wednesday.  The program this spring lasted from March until school was out in May.  The students got to photograph using point and shoot cameras and film.  Each week I introduced a new project for them to work on.  I also tried to get them to think about basic composition, lighting, and why they were photographing their subject.  Despite having different projects, most of the students took most of their pictures of friends and family.  When I'd spend time with a student, discussing and choosing his or her favorite pictures, he or she almost always picked photos of friends or family as their favorite ones.  It is always fun for me to see these children get excited about taking pictures, and I hope they learned something from the exercises.  I will continue to work with Yellowstone in the future, and will continue this photo program as long as we can.

At the end of the school year I chose two of each student's best images and printed, matted and framed them.  Each student got to sign their work, which is by far my favorite part of the program.  They get so excited to see their work printed large (8X10s) and presented neatly in a frame.  When they put their name on the piece they get to take ownership of their creative work, and get to experience that great feeling of accomplishment--something every artist enjoys when a project is completed.  After all of the prints are signed, we hang up the exhibit in the hallway for the students, faculty and parents to enjoy.  Soon I would like to create a small traveling show, and have different venues around Houston host their work.

The pictures above are some of my favorite pictures from the show.  I hope you enjoy them.  I have to go up to Yellowstone soon to take down the show, but I will take some pictures of the hanging show and post those soon.

Enjoy their work.  The artists, from top to bottom are:

Kelli- Student jumping from slide

Jeremey- Leaves and night sky

Jeremey- Shadows on the groun

Jasmine- Girl in the sun

Jasmine- Backflip

Jai Ceri- Father asleep on the couch, under the many family photos

Makayla- Portrait of children taken through yellow slide

Shaquayia- Green slide

Emerance- Flower

Jai Ceri- Basketball hoop

It is amazing what these 4th and 5th graders can do!