day 9 Memphis!

Memphis.  Big thanks to Jake Morrow for hosting us, Lisa for allowing us to park at her house, and Rob, Olivia, Jack and Sophie for entertaining our dogs while we played with the memphis crew.    above is Savannah and Phillip for our engagement demo (they are getting married in a couple of weeks - congrats.)

Below a concept shot based around some conversations about memphis, a small bit of research, and of course me wanting to play with an iconic image.   Darius and Savannah played models for us and i made it a 5 frame multiple flash shot with a single sb800.

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Day 8

The 8th day put us in Memphis, TN. The first part of Dalisa’s Daily video blog kind of hints to the back end of making our way across the country on this little adventure. So far it has all been so worth it….
Above: Shelby, Simon, Tabitha, Alicia, and Ian
Below: Jack, Olivia, Lisa, Sophie and Rob

Day 7

Leaving Austin on a long travel day with some traffic delays and a very bad time finding a KOA in Little Rock Arkansas.  Its a good thing Dalisa stopped filming her Daily video blog before the end of the day.  On the way out of Austin we shot  some more families for our project. Above: Angela, Isaac (1 week old), Kenzie and Sara.     Below:  Jake, Connor, Andrea and Ethan.

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Day 6

Austin Texas!  was a blast.  Eric Doggett not only hosted us but allowed me to use him in our anti-bridal.  He is playing the cop in our little “Texas Take Down”.  I have always wanted to do a Parker & Barrow inspired theme and I have hinted at it for 2 years (this is will be Parker & Barrow Part one - version one).  Though my original vision for the shoot was a little to strong, I adjusted my sketches of it when I saw an image on a magazine cover (which is similar to the image below).  So my images here are not original but I am having fun and it makes a good lead up to shoot another little project in my head which is mug shots…. I love ummmm them mug shots…  Our models for the shoot - Adrienne and Jared - were so willing to lay down face forward in their wedding attire for us… what good sports…

Shannon and Conner did our engagement modeling.  You can see Baci running around in the Doggett’s yard playing like he’s a wolf running around in the big bad wild (we just don’t have big back yards like this at home..)

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And the roadside families:
Kimberly, Cynthia, Robert, Yolanda and Jesus

Lisa, Brandon, Trevor and Eric



Atlanta is SOLD out.   Memphis is Sold out.   We will not be opening up a 2nd day in Memphis so that we can recoup and catch up on some work.   You can still get in on the fun  Boston, Athens, Kansas City, and Denver still have some spots left.

Day 5 Dallas ** updated**

Dallas - the kickoff of the workshops..   First we have to thank JVS and Anne for being more than just wonderful hosts but truly  great friends.  (BTW, Baci and Visa had a fantastic time with Chloe and Nero at the dog park, even if there was drool involved.)   If you want to see how the workshop went, just go to JVS and Anne’s blog: offcarmeraflash.  For us, the workshop was such a fun time.  I’m always at home when I’m playing around with other photographers & shooting what I love to shoot (teaching also, I really dig that).  We started the day with an engagement (images below) style shoot to explain our shooting method.  Our volunteers for that were Kelly and Joseph.  Kelly is the makeup artist for the bridal shoot. (thank you Kelly, you did an awesome job) ——– Our bridal session (which we ended the day with) was an illustration of our conceptual Anti-Bridals.  The beautiful Kate Mefford of Juxtapose photography willingly allowed me make her into and recreate for myself The Bride of Frankenstien. So here she is: Kate as “Franks Bride”.

Kelly and Joseph

our roadside family portrait project continues:
Mike, ReJana and Macie

and the super talented JVS, Anne, Chloe and Nero

Day 4 DALLAS!

short post today.  we arrived in dallas after some bad turns and some low bridges (some video on that later).  But now we are getting ready to go to sleep so that we are fresh in the morning for the first workshop day of the veryaltf tour.   A short recap of the day would read like this: low bridges, lunch with JVS and Anne with some good Texas BBQ.  Also two family shoots and JVS and Anne turned the camera on us which should be some killer images….

***update - cause i cant sleep..

JVS and Anne posted the image they shot on their new cool blog, check it out: offcameraflash.com - pretty bad ass if you ask me….

also some families:

Melanie, Lunden and Harper

And the very funny Brooks and Leigh

Day 3

Our third day puts us in McKinney, TX where we start our Roadside family portraits.

above is kate, millie, and bobby.

Annette, Matt and Ian (and yes that is a squirrel)

Pat, Amy, Shanti, and Wilbur up front.

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And Dalisa’s Daily
(and LadyDoll i promise to work on my RV manners -i love you!)



Day 2 - TEXAS!
From Tucumcari, New Mexico to Denton, Texas just outside of Dallas.  A pretty good day of driving, with Dalisa taking the wheel for a little bit on the big rig.  From Dalisa’s Daily video blog you’ll see that she loves that guy on you tube that dances all over the world and also likes that America’s funniest home video of the wife that locks the husband out of the house until he dances…   We ended with a good RV park with a little backing up trouble, but all in all we had a great time and I am all ready to start shooting families and getting my altf thing on!

Cadillac Ranch!  Amarillo Texas.  I’ve read and seen photos of this place a long, long time ago and as we drove by I recognized it right away. 2 u-turns and we were praying to the Cadillac gods.

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we are on our way.   Day One

phew!  rough start! if you think cool looking clouds are a good sign…. nope, rainy, windy, and our first problem.  The awning on the RV started to come open while we were driving.  We made an emergency pit stop on the side of the road and worked a  very slow repair with zip ties in the wind and rain.  Adventure.  We ended the night in Tucumcari.  After passing several questionable RV parks, we picked one that we thought we might get robbed less in. (BTW…. it took 7 different stops and 12 hours to get Visa Marie to pee. Todays goal to get him to poop.)

So day one is over and we are waking up to get ready for day 2 of the travel - 31 to go.


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