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Mate Masie Traveling Exhibit

Friday, October 15th, 2010

Mate Masie (”What I Hear I Keep”) is an exhibit for the Tubman Museum that we did a few years back featuring prominent African Americans throughout history. They recently decided to turn it into a traveling exhibit and asked me to design 10 panels for the exhibit. I took the opportunity to redesign the look of Mate Masie to make the traveling exhibit a bit more colorful than the original exhibit. Here’s a photo showing the exhibit as it is displayed, and one of the posters close-up.

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Photos on Display

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

I currently have photographs on display in the offices of the American Red Cross at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda Maryland. This all came about because my friend Ingrid (whose wedding I photographed last year) was working at the American Red Cross in Bethesda and was in charge of redecorating their offices. She called me up with an idea. She wanted to use some of my photographs to make a gallery of sorts. So, I spent a while going through my photos from the past few years picking out my favorites. Then I sent a whole bunch for her to choose from. Here are few of the ones she chose, and how they look in the new offices. If you’d like to see all the photographs that are on display and/or purchase a print of the photographs, click here.

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_DSC0615 copy “Magical Memorial”, WWI Memorial in Washington, D.C.; October 2009

“Autumn’s Peace”, Showa Park, Tokyo, Japan; November 2007

“Proud Peacock”, Frankenmuth, Michigan; August 2008

“One Lotus”, Kamakura, Japan; July 2005

“Lavender Dance”, Twin Falls, Idaho; July 2009

“Red Stripe”, Twin Falls, Idaho; July 2009

“Perfect Landing”, Nikko, Japan; July 2006

“Shodo Brushes”, Japan; April 2005

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The May Family

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

It unfortunately wasn’t springy enough to do any of the newborn photos outside. However, once spring hit, my friend Rachel called me to take some family photos before I moved. I had a wonderful time working with Rachel, Nathan and Gabe, and was so happy I was able to spend an afternoon with them. I love their fun-loving spirit and how they weren’t afraid to goof-off (just like my family). Thanks again May Family! I had a hard time narrowing down the photos to post, so this one will probably be longer than usual. I just loved some of the facial expressions and really had to share:

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Patrick

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

My second newborn shoot was with Patrick and his family. It was a joy to shoot the Saville Family once more with their brand new addition.

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Taylor

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

My first maternity shoot with Shelly led to my first newborn baby shoot with her little one Taylor. Our first session took place when her whole family was in town to meet Taylor. I enjoyed meeting the grandparents and great-grandparents and doing family photos. Then, later in the week we had a whole afternoon to focus on her pretty little face (and some other cute parts too).

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The Saville Family

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

I had the pleasure of working with the Saville family several times before we left Ohio. We did a Christmas shoot (which I somehow haven’t posted about before) and then we had a maternity shoot. Coming soon I’ll share with you the photos of baby Patrick. But first, I’ll start with Christmas and show you the card I put together for them using our favorite photos from the shoot:

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savillechristmas2 I loved Leyna’s idea of tying a bow around her belly with the “Do Not Open” tag. It turned out so nice.

Now on to the maternity photos. The spontaneity of having a small child around made for a lot of funny moments and added an extra bit of delight to the photos. Have a look:

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Rogan

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

Way back in February (yes, I’m finally catching my blog up!), I did a photo shoot with our friend Rogan, who wanted some modeling photos. We ended up shooting a LOT of photos, and had lots of fun with the whole process. Here are some of the results:

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