July 9, 2009

July 7, 2009

  • Faith’s Kids

    Faith is one of my Baby Club Moms. She is so much fun and I love it when she brings her family in for a session. She is also a local news anchor. I just found this clip from KAMR last week online. She took some of the portraits from her latest Baby Club session to work and shared them on the news.

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June 26, 2009

June 25, 2009

  • Father’s, Son’s and Summer

    I love this Father / Son portrait from the beach. The outdoors bonds dads and sons like crazy. I know some of my favorite memories of time spent with my dad growing up are on fishing trips, camping or backpacking trips. I think somewhere deep down inside we guys know we’re not really designed for life behind a desk or sitting at a computer.
    Look closely at the little boy’s posture as he and dad play with bubbles. Notice especially the position his feet are in. You can’s see his face, and can’t you imagine the expression by looking at his posture? Something about the air and the sun and the lake just enables personalities to come out like nothing I’ve ever seen. I love photographs that reflect relationship. That’s what Portraits On The Beach is about. Relationships between family. I intentionally scheduled it in the evening, just so dad’s could come. I can’t wait until this year’s sessions!!

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June 24, 2009

  • One of my favorite places in the summer is the beach! Cassy and I go every year. We love it THAT much! If you follow my blog, you have seen us having a blast at the Beach. After going to the beach in Florida 8 years ago I asked myself, “how can I bring a beach portrait experience to our Amarillo clients in the middle of West Texas?” So, I came up with Portraits On The Beach.

    A little known secret in our area is beautiful Lake Greenbelt only 45 minutes from Amarillo. It has wonderful beaches!! So, we decided to do something special. We added really cool beach sessions to our summer line up! We’ve been making once in a lifetime memories with Beach portraits every summer since.

    This year, for three days only, we are going to offer something EXTRA SPECIAL. For the first time ever: We are offering 30 minute mini Beach Portrait sessions at Lake Greenbelt and I’m WAIVING THE SESSION FEES. These sessions are perfect for family, children or senior portraits. Its going to be GREAT! But we are only doing the NO SESSION FEE deal for three nights, July 21, 22 and 23, 2009. We can only photograph 12 sessions during those 3 nights. So only 12 people will be able to take advantage of this VERY SPECIAL OFFER, so be sure to call me today to reserve your time! My assistants Jacquie and Joy will be answering the phone today at the studio at (806) 371-9210.

    See the Beach Portrait slide show at http://www.AmarilloFamily.com/Events.html or

June 19, 2009

May 17, 2009

May 15, 2009

  • Happy Birthday Mom!

    Its my Mom’s birthday today. I love my Mom. She is the reason that I’m in photography today. When we were kids my Mom enrolled us in art classes. She is a wonderful painter and has been for years. So, from a very young age we learned the appreciation of fine art. I remember the smell of the art studio where she would go to paint very vividly. I was probably 2 to 4 years old. I always loved to see the new paintings that all of the artists were working on. I also remember a watercolor painting that my Mom had painted that we had framed hanging in our home. I was just amazed that the colors on the palette could become this beautiful piece of art in our home AND that MY MOM could create it.
    When my brothers and I were old enough my parents enrolled us in painting classes. We went to Mrs. Davis’ art studio in the back of her home. Mrs. Davis was a wonderful artist too. She was also great with teaching kids how to paint. So we learned to paint with pastels, watercolors and oil paints. When we completed our first works of art my Mom would come into the studio and look at our easels and go on about how much she liked them. Then what left more of an impression on me as a young child was what happened next. We would load up our artwork and my Mom would drive us to Lewis Picture Frames on south Washington street. We would meet with the framing consultant there and we were allowed to pick out mats and frames for our art pieces. As a child I remember selecting the frames and mats from a large wall of corners. I can’t imagine how much money my parents spent. Lewis frames were not the cheapest. Lewis was not a Hobby Lobby or Michael’s discount store. They were the best in the business. Then a couple weeks later we would pick them up totally framed and ready to hang. Then we would go home and with Dad’s help the paintings would be hung and proudly displayed in our home. It was the BEST experience ever as a child. To see your brain child, this painting, that you had created matted, framed and displayed just like in the art gallery. This went on for years. I didn’t get all of my paintings framed. But on a regular basis we would get the Lewis Picture Frame experience. I fell in love with art.
    After a few years of art classes Mrs. Davis gave us an assignment to go out and take photographs of different things that interested us. Then we were to bring the film back (yes film) and paint what we had photographed. I don’t remember ever painting what I photographed. It was like once I picked up a camera, all other mediums seemed to fade into the background. The camera was first and foremost. One of my mentors Sam Hollis (a very successful photographer from Midland, Texas) calls it “getting the bug.”
      I’m so thankful that my Mom invested her time and her talent so deeply in my brothers and I. Happy birthday Mom!