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Last weekend, I helped my friend Pouya Dianat with the shooting of his short film, GEARS. He and his friend/roommate, Jonathan Cribbs, wrote the script and cast it. What was interesting about the making of GEARS is that Pouya used DSLR’s to capture the video. To put this in layman’s terms, he used cameras that were traditionally used for only still photographs (the kinds of cameras I use). Recently, several DSLR models have been released that can shoot still photographs, as well as capture HD video. Pouya used Nikon D3 camera bodies and Nikkor as well as Carl Zeiss lenses for the film. Audio was captured externally and will be added in during the editing process. This portion of the film was shot in abandoned factory (Thomaston Mills) in Griffin.

Chris Polk, a pre-engineering major at Clayton State, studies biology in the University Center on Jan. 11, the first day of spring semester. I took this picture for the student newspaper, The Bent Tree. I am now co-editor-in-chief of the paper, and I’m hoping to do some exciting things with it. What’s not exciting this semester is that I’m taking Spanish…..say a prayer for me.

I’m in New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl, so last night (New Year’s Eve), I ventured out to the French Quarter to take a few pictures. I was going to try to get some pictures of the madness on Bourbon Street, but it was just a bit too crowed for me (especially carrying around camera). So I went one block over to Royal Street and hung with a couple of street musicians. Happy New Year!

Here’s my selection of what I consider my best images of 2009. I didn’t shoot a whole lot this year, so the pickings were slim, but I hope you enjoy. Happy New Year!

If you read this blog regularly, you’ve seen Clint on here a couple of times. Today, Clint and I took a drive out in the country and visited a few places we used to hang out when we were younger. This is on Hard Labor Creek near the infamous “Spillway,” where many a Morgan County teenager (including myself) swam and acted like fools on humid summer nights. As we were leaving, I noticed this beautiful light coming from the setting sun. I told Clint that this picture looked like a Carhartt advertisement, except for his Nike sweatshirt.

It all started a couple years ago, when a couple of local guys starting talking trash over who could build the fastest boxcar (I’m pretty sure a fair amount of alcohol was involved). A few years later, it’s turned into a major (by Griffin standards, anyway) event, involving several boxcars—though some of these don’t qualify as boxcars in my book.

While home for Thanksgiving, I rode around aimlessly in the country with a friend of mine when we came upon this horse-drawn carriage. I just got lucky that the sun was setting in the background, giving me a beautiful sky to silhouette it against.

I just moved this blog to this domain, but apparently none of the images came with it. So please forgive me that the images from the past 3 years are simply not there. I’ll be working on fixing it, but it will take some time.

I was really hoping South Carolina would pull off an upset against No. 1-ranked Florida yesterday, but Spurrier and Co. just couldn’t overcome the Tebow Train. Everyone thought they had a chance, considering the Gamecocks were only behind 17-14 at the half, but the Gators, especially their defense, dominated in the second half. No matter who’s playing though, you can’t beat shooting an SEC game….there’s just nothing like it.

I was so excited to get to photograph the Mosses recently, especially with the addition of little Sophie Belle. They are truly a beautiful family.