Watkins Glen, New York
Watkins Glen is amazing. I'm sure you've seen images of this gorge and its many waterfalls, but I have wanted to visit this site for years. We recently took a short vacation to Niagara Falls and on our way home, spent two nights in the Watkins Glen camping area. The first day, we shared a walk in the gorge with what seemed like a thousand other tourists, but the next morning, we woke at 5:30am to beat the crowds and were not disappointed. These were made that morning.
Blue Angels
The US Navy's aerial demonstration team was at the Harrisburg airport and they were practicing right over our home for a few days before an air show. I figured I could get some nice shots from near the river, so I went down to the Steelton Boat Launch and got these.
Alex Jade at Boxcar Rocks
Another traveling model comes to PA! Alex is currently traveling from her home in South Carolina and reached out to me on her way to Pennsylvania. I have been wanting to shoot at this location in central PA for a while and this was a great excuse to use it as the setting for our time together. I'm afraid I didn't make a good impression at first: I didn't correctly read the instructions for how to find these formations and we ended up hiking almost half a mile past the turn. B
New music photos
Since moving to Pennsylvania, I've tried to establish connections wih local music venues so I can get back to practicing as often as I used to in Florida. The Englewood in Hershey was the first and the manager there has been very helpful. The venue hosts some bigger traveling performers as well as established local musicians. A Tom Petty tribute band called Damn the Torpedoes was my first event there and it was a great show. The lighting on stage is better than what I'm used
Trying something new
I've been playing with a new-to-me-technique and wanted to share a few new images. It's actually quite easy to set up, but the editing process is quite a bit more demanding than my usual B&W edits. In this case, my model dipped her hands in wet paint and smeared or dripped it across her body. I use bright green paint to differentiate the liquid from skin tones and thus make it easier to separate in the edit. Careful selection of the background and skin to give a silhouette ap
