Headshot for Bruce Logue, Realtor

Bruce Logue, Realtor and Networker Extraordinaire

My friend Bruce Logue stopped by for a headshot earlier this week.

What a blast! I love working with friends, especially ones as fun-loving as Bruce.

Bruce was looking for a headshot that captured his friendly, easy-going personality. What an easy assignment. He makes a connection with the camera almost as easily as he does with people.

In addition to the friendly Bruce that we captured in the studio setting, we moved outside for a photo showing the more confident, professional side of Bruce.

Looking for a friendly, professional Realtor, check out Bruce Logue’s webpage.

Need professional headshots? Give me a call 601 466 2982 or shoot me an email at cindy@cbrownphoto.com.

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Pine Lake Porch Portrait Book Design

Designing a book of photographs is rather daunting.

First you have to choose the photos to include. Then decide how to incorporate that text that goes with the photos. In the book of porch portraits I’m working on, some have just a little text and others quite a bit more. So then I have to decide if I should design pages with smaller photos and more text, or spread a single photo across two pages with text. And, of course, that affects the number of pages.

How many pages should I include in the book? If I include more, I’ll have to charge more. But the, will an extra $5.00 or so really make a difference in the number of books I sell?

So many questions.

Besides designing the book, I need to make sure everyone in the photos will be happy to be included in a published book. So, I’ll be sending a lot of email over the next week or so asking folks to sign model releases

It’s a lot of work, but I think it’ll be worth it in the end.

Third Diamond Award Winner from Amber and Jerome's Engagement Session

Some engagement sessions are special. Everything comes together—the place, the fun, the humor, the personalities, the clothing.

Amber and Jerome’s Stone Mountain engagement safari was just such a session. I’m honored to share the third diamond award I’ve won from their session.

Thanks, Amber and Jerome!

Award-winning Atlanta Engagement Photographer.

Hurricane Katrina: Has it really been 15 years?

Yesterday was the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Not an anniversary I want to celebrate. Instead, I prefer to celebrate today as the anniversary of the day we started to clean up the mess Katrina left behind..

Because my wife and I lived in Hattiesburg, Mississippi at the time, we saw only a small portion of the devastation left in the aftermath of the hurricane. But 80% of the streets in our city were impassable because of all the trees, mostly pine, that snapped and fell across the roads. (Thanks to all the chainsaw cowboys and cowgirls who went to work, some as soon as the storm passed, to cut up the trees and move them off the roads.)

And it took weeks for electrical crews to get the electricity to our home back up and running. (Thanks to the crews who came from all around to help across south Mississippi and Louisiana.)

I took photos of the destruction, the power line crews, people cleaning up, carrying cases of water, evacuations at the local hospital, but my favorite is the photo above of three sisters singing together. They were part of a worship service that took place on the street in front of the Lighthouse Apostolic Pentecostal Church about two weeks after the storm. The church was gutted, but the congregation continued to worship on the side of the road in the sun.

Missing those second shooting gigs

COVID-19 has cut down the number of weddings we’re booking and the size of the weddings we do book.

And, because weddings are so much smaller these days, other photographers have stopped calling on me to second shoot. A wedding with 10 or 12 guests can be covered adequately by one shooter. And who wants an extra photographer, when he or she could be an additional source of virus spread?

So, while I’m waiting on the second shooting opportunities to return, here’s to the memory of second shoots from 2019.

Happy Belated World Photography Day

Wednesday August 19th was World Photography Day, “ an annual, worldwide celebration of the art, craft, science and history of photography.”.

I did not know there was such a day—one dedicated to the celebration of photography. Many of you may have been clueless, as well.

So, here’s my Happy World Photography Day Belated blogpost, photos of people taking photos at weddings..

2020 Diamond Engagement Awards

With weddings postponed or downsized, I’ve been spending more time taking engagement photos. And more time entering my photos into contests.

I’m honored to have been recognized for these engagement photos this year. (The photos were taken in previous years.)

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COVID wedding change of venue to parent's backyard

Due to COVID 19 and the restrictions created to keep it from spreading, Daria and Josh revamped their wedding plans from a big celebration at the Dekalb History Center, into an intimate backyard ceremony and suburban-home reception.

The intimate ceremony, dinner and party to follow was filled with laughter, love, good food, good cake and a little bit (or maybe more) of champagne.

Daria got help with her dress from her Mom.

Josh’s best man adjusts Josh’s tie.

Daria makes Josh laugh during the ceremony.

The happy couple after they are wed.

A quiet moment after all the excitement.

The posed photo session included Gaston, an important member of the wedding party.

The wedding topper toppled.

Locking arms for the traditional champagne toast.

Daria’s bridesmaid makes Daria and Josh, and the rest of the guests, laugh.

Cheers!