Cozy Bedroom

Earlier in 2013, I worked with the wonderful and talented Kathryn LeMaster on a guest room/office makeover for one of her clients.  Kathryn asked me to photograph the "after" part of the redo project.  From an aesthetic standpoint, her inspiration began with a beautiful embroidered duvet she and her client saw on a recent trip to Pottery Barn.  You can see the full post on Kathryn's website by going here. along with several other of Kathryn's design projects. Here are just a few of my favorite photos from the project.

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2002 Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR

I'm not a gear head.  Never have been -- nor do I want to be.  Fancy, shiny and expensive cars aren't my thing....we'll maybe mid-1960s era Corvettes.  So when I had the opportunity to photograph a 2002 Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR in October, I was very curious as to what a $2M car looked like.   Yes....you read that right! A $2 million dollar car.  At least that was the list price. I was hired in late October to photograph the 2002 Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR for RK Motors Collector Car Auctions that would be auctioning off the car in a few weeks.  The assignment was pretty simple: photograph the car from all angles, both wide and details.  They also requested a bit of video to accompany the photos so I brought along Mike McCall with Backfocus Productions.

We were working with minimal budget so it was a challenge, yet fun, to make a little go a long way for both photo and video.  We traveled to Elite Autos in Jonesboro where the car was being stored.  Elite's inventory: Bugatti, Audi, Ferrari, Lamborghini, etc.; is pretty impressive for the gear heads of the world.  Don't think about just popping in to look at their pretty cars....all visitors are by appointment only.

Here is a link to the video that Backfocus Productions shot and was used for the auction.  The video can be found here on their YouTube channel.

The car sold for $1.3 million.

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Arkansas Children's Hospital

Over the summer, I was invited to participate in a photo project for Arkansas Children's Hospital.  The project was a two-part photo documentary on a day at ACH.   Myself and a handful of other Little-Rock and Arkansas' based photographers were asked to participate.  I was more than happy (and honored) to contribute to the project. I was asked to photograph a few aspect of ACH:  Kaylee, a cutie of a girl who is battling cancer, a day in the burn unit, and doctors using an animatronic doll to help them detect child abuse.

The project was rolled out into two parts.  The first is a 16-page insert in the November issue of Soiree' Magazine.  You can see the special section by going here and the ACH section starts on page 50/51.  My contributing photos are below.

There will be more photos coming out in December during Arkansas Children's Hospital annual fundraiser, Miracle Ball.  Once those publish, I plan to do an extensive blog post about my day in the burn unit as well as other photos I took at Arkansas Children's Hospital.

 

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My photo is the smaller one at right.

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