Collaboration: The Running River04.23.12

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Thus far this year, my most exciting project has been collaborating with designer Camilla Roberson Turner to produce photographs for The Running River, her custom children’s clothing design business. The idea is basically that she has designs but creates each item of clothing to the custom needs of her customers. So, if you like the cut of a certain dress but would like a different color or pattern, well, that’s what she’s all about.

How custom does she get? One thing she recently created was a set of shirts for a little boy with his arm in cast. With a sort of button front and T-shirt look, they were easy for him to get on and off, and they look snazzy. I would link you to her website, but part of the reason for shooting is to give Camilla photos for her forthcoming website.

Camilla and her model and I got together for our first session Easter weekend – which turned out being a touch chillier than we thought, given our balmy late winter and early spring – for a set of shots trying to incorporate nature. After all, it’s called The Running River.

I’m looking forward to sharing more of these shots with you as Camilla and I keep working.

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School House Rock Live at Bryan Station High School04.16.12

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Click here for the full gallery from School House Rock Live at Bryan Station.

My favorite thing about returning to photography several years ago was getting to shoot stage productions all over Central Kentucky in my role as a cultural journalist for the Lexington Herald-Leader. It was a perfect marriage of my passions for the arts and photography.

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A side benefit has been that I have artsy kids, so on the job, I have developed skills that help me document their performances for them and their fellow young artists.

Last week, I got to bring that to full fruition shooting Bryan Station’s production of School House Rock Live, which my daughter was in. It was a historic production in that Station has not presented a musical in years.

I approached shooting it in largely the same way I shoot a show for the paper, coming to final dress rehearsals to get shots as close to what the show looked like as possible. I did go for somewhat broader coverage than usual trying to make sure every kid in the show had some strong images of themselves and ultimately delivering a lot more photos to the director than we do for the paper, where we are going for a handful of images for print and a couple dozen or so images for online galleries.

That’s the technical logistical stuff.

What was really important was creating images that the kids could use to show people what was going on and get them out to the show. What was really important was producing mementos of an experience that these student performers will carry with them the rest of their lives.

An unexpected outcome was – and I claim no credit whatsoever for this idea – the show’s director, Dr. Kristine Lyon, had a picture of each of the principal actors in the production blown up on corkboard with a wide white border around the image. After the final performance, the kids were signing each other’s pictures like yearbooks.

Watching the kids strike the set and share final hugs brought back memories of shows I was in at their age, building that kind of family it takes to tell a story to an audience in a couple hours. Like most anything else we photograph, shows don’t last forever, but the memories can.

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Lexington senior photographer: Kevin04.05.12

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This was a senior shoot born to a certain extent on Facebook. Kevin and I were struggling a bit to figure out where to shoot his session. Then I looked at the pictures on his Facebook page and noticed most of them were taken at Camp Burnamwood, a beloved Presbyterian retreat down in Irvine, Ky.

I had a suggestion.

So, we took advantage of a spring break afternoon and went down to Burnamwood for a shoot that incorporated Kevin’s love of art, music and our national champion University of Kentucky Wildcats – yes, it was Tuesday afternoon and Kev already had his UK basketball championship swag – all in a setting he loves.

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