Author Archives: ickna

Guatemala, day 1

Getting up this morning wasn’t really that hard, since I never really went to bed. Jim and I made it back to his place around 3 AM after getting everything ready at Bettola so it can run in his absence. We had to leave at 4:30 AM to get to Atlanta, so there was only [...]

Guatemala

I’m leaving in the morning to go to Guatemala for a couple of days. I’ll be shooting a wedding while I’m down there, and then travelling around the rest of the time. My camera kit for this trip is really lightweight – D300, D70, 2 SB800’s and a few bits of grip. I’m ditching the [...]

In memory of Heather Grice Sweeny

Heather passed away a few days ago. She was a great friend and will be missed by many. We always had a good time playing at Kids Got The Disco, and chatting at her desk when she worked at University Relations.
The original photos from her shoot are unfortunately lost from a hard drive crash a [...]

shooting cars & a local blog mention

One of the most entertaining things I get to do is to shoot cars for a couple of local car enthusiast boards and the local chapter of the SCCA. We usually head on over to the new Helena Middle School just down the street from my house, since it has a good variety of road [...]

Taylor’s Shoot

Last Sunday, my friend and photog in training Taylor arranged a photo shoot with a few of his friends for models. We opted to shoot at Aldrige Gardens in Hoover, and the weather was absolutely wonderful. I ran him through a variety of different lighting techniques and gave him a couple of problems to solve. [...]

Momentum 2009 photoshoot

The images from the photo call for the cast of 2009’s Momentum show are now online:

Flickr set
click an individual image, then click “all sizes” above that if you want to download the full-size image to make a print.

Facebook album
I’m pretty sure everyone has been tagged by now.

Full shoot dump (warning: 409 photos on 36 pages)
on [...]