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Abandoned Home Blue-Red
Hidden in a cornfield in rural Saline County, Missouri sits an abandoned farmhouse. What was once a grand home has collapsed, leaving a shell of its former self. I visited the location during a full moon phase for some light painting photography. I used the powerful...
Line Dance
Kaci Smart of Columbia College recently hired me for an event photography assignment at the college's Fall Formal. Kaci will often hire me for events because of my expertise with low-light photography. This event was such an occasion. The formal took place in a dimly...
Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore
I had the opportunity to do event photography for the promotors of the 2019 Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival in Columbia, Missouri this past weekend. The festival is held annually in late September at Stephens Lake Park. This year, two of my favorite performers was asked...
True Media Building
I was recently hired for an architectural photography job by Simon Oswald Architecture of Columbia, Missouri. Lead architect Robbie Price asked me to take pictures of the True Media building. The building is the former location of the Commerce Bank. The building was...
Francis Scott Key
I was thrilled when Karen Chandler of Columbia Parks & Recreation hired me to photograph the 42nd Annual Heritage Festival and Craft Show. The festival is held at Nifong Park in Columbia, Missouri. The show features reenactors and historical exhibits as well as...
SiteScapes Steel Furniture
This past September, I completed a commercial photography assignment for SiteScapes out of Lincoln, Nebraska. SiteScapes designs and manufactures outdoor steel furniture. They recently installed their products at the new Captial City High School in Jefferson City,...
Blue Shuttlecock
I did some light painting photography in Kansas City, Missouri at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art a few years ago. The subject was one of the Shuttlecocks by Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen. There was some controversy about the outdoor sculptures when the...
Electric Fan Barn Quilt
Here’s an example of my fine art photography work I shot this past spring. It’s a photograph of the Electric Fan barn quilt on Highway 240 in Howard County, Missouri near Fayette. Barn owner Martha Holman selected the Electric Fan motif because it resembled one her...
Cessna Citation X
I had a unique opportunity when the owner of a Cessna Citation X jet hired me for an aviation photography job in Kansas City, Missouri. The plane was located at the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport just north of metropolitan Kansas City. The owner of the jet...
Autumn Zenith
Last fall, I did a whole series of photos looking directly up the sky. The technical term for the point precisely above a location is known as the "zenith." I became interested in the idea of the zenith after doing a series of drone photography shots of looking...
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