Angel

Angel earned another 5 million awesomeness points for being awesome, being so photogenic, and inviting Amanda and I out for sushi...her fav!













Whoa!

Playing catch up!

I shot with the super awesome Dave Baxter all day on Friday at Christina and Jeremy's wedding and had an absolute blast! The sun was scorching hot, but both sides of the wedding party toughed out the heat and made it super fun for us to shoot with them. I took oodles of pictures and have been hard at work trying to get through them all. I'll have to get with Dave to see when we can get some images up for you to see.

In the mean time, Amanda and I headed back out in the awful humidity with Angel and shot some college grad pictures for her. She was an all-star and a complete trooper since I kept making her sit in busy city streets and she was having to get up and out of traffic over and over. But scanning through the pictures it was well worth the effort. Angel was recently diagnosed with chronic good lookingness. This shot belongs in a magazine.



We had a blast Angel! You can hang with us anytime you'd like. More to come!

PS. I'm going to turn into a sno cone...

Sno Cones!!

So I gave up on chocolate shakes in hopes of not becoming a heffer and started eating the most amazing treat on earth...SNO CONES! My new bff's down at Eskimo Sno are completely cool and get 10 million rad points for using shaved iced and having 50 bajillion flavors to choose from. My goal is to try them all. I let the girls pick out my flavor when I walk in the door and Amanda seems to have become quite fond of "banana." I've really been wanting to try a "ninja turtle," so I'm hoping when they make me one after I post this that's what they'll pick. No matter what it's a sno cone and I can't go wrong. I've even taken it a step further and bought this super sweet t-shirt that says "I love sno cones" and has Eskimo Sno stuff on the back. If you're in the Norman area and need a cool dose of yumminess definitely look them up!



Oh, and those aren't straws...technically. They are those candy sour dealies coated in sugar which make the experience even better! You can suck the juice through them if you want though. I prefer to just dive in face first. Does that make it a straw then?

Some new things!

It's been like Christmas the past couple days around here which is definitely always a good thing! Today I got home and found a Fed Ex package on the pourch for me. Only what I saw wasn't a pretty picture.

Here are my new business cards in the packaging :(



Thank god Herff Jones protects the hell out of everything they send me. I've never had any problems with Fed Ex delivering things to me like this...especially when it says "PHOTOS - DO NOT BEND" in pretty decent sized letters. All that extra cardboard they send me came in handy this time!

I started out creating my new cards all complicated and busy with an image and writing, but then I got to thinkin that I always get bored with stuff like that so I took it a completely different route and used the theme for my website. Black and White!



The best of the best though was getting my wedding band the other day. I've been a pretty big baby for almost a year now saying that it wasn't fair Amanda had an engagement ring and I didn't. She asked me a long time ago what I wanted in a wedding band and I gave her a pretty brief discription. This is what she came up with!



I couldn't have picked out anything better myself! You did an amazing job baby, this thing flat out ROCKS! I couldn't be more proud marrying you! I'm the luckiest man on the planet and this ring means we'll be together forever! I love you! It's not hard sporting Scott Kay either. The band is made of palladium and is rollin 12 diamonds deep. I decided that picture was far too boring so I did as if I were shooting wedding images and headed in a slightly more creative direction.



Ok...not that creative and well...I'm a dude. If her ring was in the picture as well this would probably be acceptable, but it's not.



Much better! Grand Theft Auto IV anyone? You can look me up on XBOX Live as thelegend1472. Amanda will have to get on here and post her story about giving me the ring because it's pretty funny. To make a long story short there was some indian giving going on and I don't get to HAVE it until Sept...more whining.

Please note: I realise that a lot of this was shot on my hideous orange kitchen counter tops, but only because there was some killer window light filtering in. Sorry, I really am.

Prom

It was my future little sister's Prom a couple weekends ago, so I stopped by one of her friends house and grabbed a couple of snap shots. All the girls were looking stunning and seemed to be pretty pumped up about the big event. Here are a few from my brief stent. Did I really just say stent? Wow...pictures...bed.

The shoes



Gettin ready





A few of the girls all dressed up









My fav



All the ladies



Vogue...well some of you



Cuddle?



Keep your mits off my sister boys



Hope you had a blast Kenzie! Ignore the old logo on the pictures...these were done prior to the new one ;)

The Boutwell Challenge!

The rain cleared, the skys were blue, and my Nikon was ready for some photo excellence this afternoon. I'm really glad that I dragged my lazy ass out of the house because I got some cool pics and had a blast talking to myself. Anyway, as I said before it's only 2.2 miles from my driveway to my day job. Day job you say? Yeah, you all need to make me so busy that I don't have to have one of those anymore! Here are some things that I pass on a daily basis and some others that just happened to be there as I passed.

I didn't even have to hop in the car for this. I shred a lot on my board...as you can see it's been around the block. I'm fully confident that the wheels don't even turn.



I started driving as I would in the morning and came across these incredible birthday balloons. Either some little kid is crying because their mom threw these out the window of the apartment complex they live or it really wasn't their birthday. Regardless, these were helium which makes them awesome for cutting loose and watching them fly away. Actually, now that I mock them. Thinking back I didn't do that either after I took these...





Then I headed into the local laundry mat. Thank god we have our own washer and dryer. I asked a young girl if I could take a picture of her clothes spinning. She gave me a thumbs up, I said cool, she continued swearing like a sailor at whoever was on the other end of her cell phone, and then we both went on our merry ways.



One thing I see a lot of on my way to work is construction. Thank God I don't drive far. This was on the front of one of the construction vehicles. I'm not sure what it does, but it looks sweet.



I then walked through the torn up road across some clay. Not such a hot idea after it rains. We don't have hardcore gnarly clay in MI so I didn't know it would do this to my flip flops.



It was worth the 20 minutes it took me to scrape the thick muddy red concoction off the soles because I grabbed two pretty rad shots...one of which I love!

Nice.



AWESOME!



I'm yet to go through the sumo pictures. They sound really fun don't they? The events were less than entertaining in all honesty which is probably why I'm less then enthused about looking at them. Maybe I won't.

I had another shake tonight. It was greatness, but my belly will start hanging over my pants if I go at it at this pace. What do you think about the new logo combo?

Rained out!

Amanda had to work tonight, so I had planned on heading out for my little challenge. I should have known it wasn't going to work out though. Every time she works it rains :( Pray for sun in OK tomorrow!

Getting there...

Here are the remaining photos from The Wise Guys and Graham Colton. I still have some shots from sumo wrestling at work (seriously) and a couple pictures from Kenzie's prom to sort through. I'm really hoping to take Chenin's challenge tomorrow and get completely caught up on ALL of my photos that need editing. Stop back tomorrow night to see what I've been over looking every day on my way to work!















Amanda needs to start shooting more...this shot rocks!

Photo of the week!

Amanda and I drove to Dallas for Mother's day on Sunday to spend the day with my mom, brother, and sister in-law. We had an absolute blast! Happy Mother's day to all the mothers out there! I love you mom and wouldn't be any where with out you! We got in late Sunday night and had an all out tiring weekend so I'm slacking a little bit on the photos. I PROMISE I will get through these tomorrow, so until then here is your photo of the week! I was totally serious about how freakin' awesome The Wise Guys were. If you're ever in the OKC area and want to see the coolest group of people ever rock out to some of the greatest songs to date...this is definitely the band for you. So until then...again (yeah I know.)



Also, Chenin Boutwell has challenged us to take a look at the things we overlook on a daily basis. Like everything you pass on your way to work. I'm not sure that I'll get to this tomorrow, but I accept her challenge and plan on documenting (hopefully, I have a 2 mile drive)some cool things for you. So be on the look out for that. Alright, I'm off to
Braum's to get a humongo chocolate shake and then head back to bed. Mmmmm shake...

The Wise Guys...

Tonight Amanda and I met up with Julie at the Jazz Lab to watch her husband play with his band "The Wise Guys." I'm shooting her sons senior portraits on the 19th and am looking forward to it even more so now that I know how rad she is. The Wise Guys flat out rocked playing 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's music. Not only did we meet some totally amazing people (including the guy that's going to marry us,) but Graham Colton showed up to watch his dad play in the band! It's definitely a small world. Amanda and I got to hang out with Graham for a few and I took some shots of him when he hopped up on stage to sing his hit single "Best Days!" If you don't have his CD yet you definitely need to go check it out! We leave early in the morning for Dallas to spend mother's day with my mom who flew in from MI so I'll get some more shots up tomorrow night. This will have to hold you over till then.

Chelsea

Alright alright...I'm finally getting some work done here. My Pistons won game two of the second round tonight and I'm fighting my urge to play GTA IV and continue sorting through these kick ass photos from yesterday. Chelsea is a super trooper for toughing out the cold mud and Amanda was an allstar as usual helping me with the lighting while getting mugged by swarms of mosquitos. She managed to fire of a few frames her self...one of which I love! We started out downtown Norman to try out a couple of new spots we found the other day. We'll definitely be heading down there for some more sessions!

SoCo was a champ too!







She's braver than I am...



Amanda shot this one (pro in the making!)