I’ve been on several photo assignment trips recently – so thought it would be a good idea to grace my sadly ignored blog with some new photos. The photo assignments came after I took a good, long break from photography. Other than shooting some baseball in the spring – I haven’t done squat in a very long time. But the recent trips have once again fired up my photo love, and I’m ready to shoot again. And – planning to work on my new photo website this month and find a home to sell my expanding catalog of stock images. We’ll see if I get any of it done – haha.

You might recognize some of my favorite spots in the photos below. The windmill shot is the first time I’ve ever had good light in that location – and it was pretty special this time.

My good buddy John Hayden was in Larryville for several days. He got a new Nikon camera recently and he was interested in learning about studio photography. We used fun objects from around my office on white backgrounds. We did do some stuff with strobes – but all of these are tasty natural light from my north facing windows.

Okay, I might have found the tastiest iPhone photo app yet. It’s called Hipstamatic. The interface is really easy to use and it allows you to select several different combinations of film and lenses. How cool is that? Plus, they have a store with more lenses and film available. I’m going to resist spending more money until I figure out these choices first.

Happy New Year! I think I’ll celebrate with the Powers Irish Whiskey I got as a holiday gift.

I finally got a new iPhone with a “working” camera – so now I can shoot anytime, anywhere. Of course, that doesn’t mean I actually do shoot. I’m a big fan of pro photographer Chase Jarvis – he’s always pushing the limits of technology, photography and the promotion of both. He introduced a new iPhone app called Best Camera and companion website called thebestcamera.com. The iPhone app is cool and easy to use, plus it allows you to upload your iPhone photos to a number a places (email, facebook, flickr, mms). Here are a couple of my early efforts. Like Chase says - the best camera is the one that’s with you.