Arnold Family Portraits

I spent the morning photographing some long time friends and now neighbors and their new little boy. These were shot as in a lifestyle/photojournalistic fashion which is how I prefer to shoot families (as opposed to more traditional posed "look at the camera and smile" shots). I try to capture not only life as it happens for real, but also the surroundings, especially with children. Little ones grow up so fast and it's always hard to remember how small they once were. Hopefully these guys will be able to look back one day and remember him growing up in their quaint little cottage. Here are a few of the shots! If you want to see more, check out a quick slideshow.

Portraits in ccccccoooooolllldddd weather!

I had a portrait shoot this morning that was scheduled to be outdoors. When I looked outside first thing this morning I saw blue sky and knew it would be a great day for shooting. Little did I know that it was 6 degrees (F) with the wind chill!

These gals were troopers to hang on for as long as they did. We shot fast, though, to get them out of the cold and back in the heat!

Perched atop a Crane

I did a shoot today for the Rhythm at Music Row condominium tower located in the Music Row area of Nashville. It's a 14-story highrise and we wanted to capture a sense of the views. The construction superintendent and I climbed up the crane about 75 feet or so in the air to get a perspective. It was really windy today, so anything above that was going to cause too much movement with the slow shutter speeds the camera needed to take these shots (plus, I can assure you that this was plenty high enough for me to be dangling on the inside of a completely open-air crane on a windy evening!).