J.B. Shock – BS Tailslide – Miamisburg, Ohio

Payton Caudill – Rock Ride – Middletown, Ohio

Last week the band , These Last Few invited me to come shoot photos of them practicing. I think it is important during the planning of a band’s promo shoot to sit in a practice or live session. This way you get a feel for who they are as a band and how to correctly portray them in their promos.

The family got together yesterday to celebrate Easter and I brought my camera:

Finally! Spring is here! On Saturday, the boys and I went out to take advantage of the nice weather we were having here in Ohio.

This is how J.B. looked when we met up with him. Beaten by a couple guys on St. Patrick’s Day. If you recall this post, you will see this happens to him a lot!

J.B. Shock – Blunt to Fakie – Miamisburg, Ohio

Oompa always throws his arm out of socket, here he is attempting to put it back in.

Payton Caudill – Blunt Half Cab – Lebanon, Ohio

I even shot a sequence, which I never do!

Payton Caudill – Wall Ride Melon Off – Dayton, Ohio

I just wanted to quickly post some photos of a couple I photographed the other night in Springboro, Ohio outside @darrinballman ‘s studio at the {Snap} Meeting.

Hannah & Nosa

Finally got around to shooting something that has been in my head for a while.

Kristie and I went to a local park where it would be extremely dark so that I could do some painting with light. I used my strobe to paint in areas of light from the right side of the frame. Each tree was lit separately but the shutter remained open for the entire shot.

After I started to get what I was looking for, a cop pulled into the park and wanted to know what was going on. He checked our ID’s and agreed to let us finish. He even waited in the parking lot, just in case another cop came by to kick us out.

After a few minutes of running blindly through the woods with my flash, we finally got the shot. We plan to print a 30×50 of it and hang it in our living room.

I swear that Google is taking over the world! I recently received my invite to create a Google Voice account and I was able to reserve 937-985-FOTO (3686).

Feel free to call and leave me a comment, message or hate mail. You can even send a text to that number (how freakin’ sweet?).

If you want it to be stupid simple, feel free to use this call widget to have Google connect your phone with mine.

I just discovered thisMoment.com, and I think it will be a great way to share my photo series through the various social sites.

Here is one from a CareFlight shoot I did last year:

My cousin Amanda had a beautiful baby girl on Monday, July 27th. I got to meet her yesterday and snap a few photos of her.

Kylie Jo Johnson

BONUS: Wylie the Chihuahua

Since I am extremely lagging on getting my new personal site finished, I decided to put something together via Carbonmade (took less than 10 min!)

So until I finish my new one, chomp on this: