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An artists rendering of some of my photos hanging in a dentists office in Arizona

I feel like I fell off a cliff. I get a full-time job and suddenly I'm lost in 12+ hour days at work, people calling for photo shoots, and kids (human and pup) demanding my attention; so naturally the one thing that captured so much of my attention, this blog, has gone unnoticed. Now that I am taking a day off from my normal 8-8 (yeah 9-5 my ass) I figured I would throw some updates up.

Obviously the picture on this post is a huge update. An interior designer reached out to me and asked if he can purchase some photos from me to print on canvas and hang in the lobby of a dentists office for a client of his in Arizona. After a month or so of emails back and forth, his client selected some photos and that was that. I feel very honored they chose my photos to hang in their lobby. I also think it is ironic considering my completely irrational fear of the dentist. So the photo here is a rendering of what it will look like.

Another big update is that I shot my first wedding. A good friend of mine back from my Verizon Wireless days was getting married. She reached out to me and asked if I could shoot her small intimate wedding. Nervous as hell, I took the job and off to a wedding I went. I shot over 8 GB of photos totaling close to 1200 photos in a matter of a few hours. I can't imagine a photog who shoots a wedding for 12 hours.

I got to shoot some family photos for very close friends. They were meant as a mother's day gift for my friend's mother. It was a great day and the family was troopers because some of them were in long pants and boots and they got in the lake for "the shot". We had so much fun and the photos look great. The sun was setting over head, the humidity cast this really cool pink and blue hues, and shooting directly into the sun was something new for me, but I think they looked great in the end. I have so much more editing to do. I took over 500 photos in 3 hours for these fine folks too.

Last but not least is the project I got to work on for RTA here in Cleveland. They wanted to document rush hour in Tower City. So I was in Tower City at 6am and saw the empty platforms transform into a crazy mad house of people all going to different parts of town and scattering all over downtown. It was a fun experience, but lighting conditions were tough but I think some of what I got were good. I got so much more to edit here as well.

Of course all these awesome projects came at the same time right on top of each other. When it rains it pours right? Hopefully these types of projects keep coming in. The best part of all of this is that I can do it while holding down my full-time gig selling cars, which as it turns out, I am pretty good at. Just need to step it up and get more customers in front of me. 2013 has been pretty good. The fortunes of this one time starving photographer have turned. I will keep pushing to get better at everything I do.

Thanks for all your support.