Seen ‘08!!!!!!!

Congrats to all my girls on their awards at Seen ‘08. You guys did an amazing job and are such great talents! Thanks also goes out to David from Studio Altius for putting together such an awesome show. I promise I will submit some of my work next year David!

Shoot Party…

Okay, I am catching up on all my posts today. A little over a month ago I had the privilege to be invited to a shoot party hosted by Kelly Manno. We had a blast and our models were incredible! Thanks to Tasha and Jeff, and Laura for putting up with the rain and nutty photogs snapping photos of you all day…

Mike and Jen…

I had a great time shooting Mike and Jens wedding on Friday. It was a beautiful day to have an outside ceremony and lucky as well since we pretty much had rain the entire week. Here are I few from day…

Proposing Dreams wedding Seminars…

Sabrina and the girls at PROPOSING DREAMS is offering a great opportunity to brides and grooms getting ready for their big day! She is going to be offering affordable wedding seminars that will help you on your way to the perfect wedding day. The seminars will be a very personal way of getting answers to your big questions and important tasks, learn from the Pros so you can feel like one too. They hope to be holding a seminar every month for couples at different stages in their planning. Look for future seminars on different topics and guest speakers! Sign up so you can ease the burden and enjoy your wedding day and not stress out over it! Follow this link “WEDDING SEMINAR” to sign up for the first seminar of the year! Every bride will receive Proposing Dreams Wedding Wrap-Up Worksheets and be able to eat, drink and be married (well almost)!

Building Masks…

I often wonder who else builds masks for themselves? Not masks as in halloween masks of any such design, but human masks. One for when your sad or one for when your angry or bored or caring or even depressed. I will open up to all of you who read my blog, I have built many masks over my life. Sometimes I feel I could be the best mask builder on the earth. People know me as the happy, funny, cheerful guy who has a nice word for everybody, the latter is true I do have good words to say to everybody and I mean them when I say them. I love people and I think that is a true gift, but the others are not always true. That is when my masks come on. I have been through very hard times in my life and possibly to my detriment I have built many masks, because masks aren’t always the best path for you. Masks help you keep everything in and that can be very damaging, damaging to you and damaging to the people and the relationships you are in. I have learned that first hand and it is not fun! I have decided to through away my masks and to get real, now like a recovering drug addict it won’t be easy but damn it will feel good at the end. Leave it all on the table and let people take it as they may, besides what do you have to lose. I need to be comfortable with myself before I can let other people get comfortable with me, so shall we get comfortable. I THINK SO! I want the best for all of you and this is the start, go tell that person that you love them and want them “take off the mask of indifference”! Go tell that person that you need a hug and a shoulder to cry on “take off that mask of happiness”! Go tell that person that you don’t deserve to be treated that way “take off that mask of acceptance”! Go out and get real, and while your at it help someone else get real along with you. They will thank you at the end! Love you all!

Missing Cali :-(

Have I said how much I miss California lately! Their are many reasons I do miss it, my life would be quite different right now if I was still there. The reason I am thinking about it right now, SNOW!!!!! Don’t get me wrong I love snow but only if I can head down the slopes with a snowboard strapped to my feet in it, can’t do much with it in St. Louis other then shovel it. Not to mention after 7 years of having an SUV I just got a little sports car, smart thinking Chad. I’m off to make a snow angel and to try and avoid not eating the yellow snow, I heard its bad stuff.

Cheerio!

My computer has the sniffles…

I am sitting in the Apple store right now because my laptop is sick. Hopefully it isn’t the flu or something terminal! I trust the Mac Genius bar to fix any problem I have though and that is why I love Apple.

The Knot Real Wedding Awards…

Hey everyone, I just entered Mindy and Chads wedding into The Knot wedding awards! You can view and vote for the entry at the link below and look for more entries in the near future!

View my Real Wedding Awards Nominee!

Through my eye’s…

In this new year I just want to thank all of you who have supported me and my vision. 2007 and the beginning of 2008 has been one of the hardest times I have ever been though and without your love and support I don’t know if I could have made it though. I lost a part of me and the love of someone very special that I don’t know if I can ever get back and it effects me to this day, I have memories that create very rough days at times but i keep my faith that God has purpose for me and my future. I just give you one piece of advice as we head into the future, do not leave anything unsaid. Embrace your feelings and needs and make them known. Look at your mistakes so that you can learn from them and never regret. Speak your mind and never be afraid of what you want most because with fear you can lose everything, and never give up hope. Dream’s come at no expense except when you have dreamt your life away. I love you all and hope that this year brings you all great happiness. I leave you with an image for the future and hopefully gives you hope. It is a spiral of light mimicking the spiral of life, let that spiral of life be a gift and embrace it for it is to precious to ignore.

South Florida Baby!!!

I just recently was talking with my friend Sara of Sara France Photography when she surprised me by asking if I would be interested in helping her with a wedding in Florida. Well of course I said when do we leave! I will be heading to the Ritz Carlton to shoot the wedding for the July 4th weekend, how fun is that going to be!