My Super Costume!

Well, it's Halloween once again. It's crazy how fast this years gone by! See the thing is, for me, Halloween is a pretty big deal. It's not that I love vampires and haunted houses (to be honest they kinda scare me), tricks and treats aren't really my thing either. Still however, each October I look forward to this one night, the only time all year when the more ridiculous you look, the cooler you are. And believe me... I am pretty cool tonight. In fact, I have a history of being really really freakin' cool on this particular day. In high school I dressed up as Waldo from Where's Waldo? Amazing! Ya, I was awesome... at least for that one day. The year before Waldo I was the Pokemon kid... ya, that's right. I told you I was really cool. Actually, now that I think about it I even had 2 live Pokemon. I actually convinced two almost grown men to get into these hilarious childrens costumes. Cliffy was Jigglypuff, the big round pink thing and Freddy was Marill, the blue mouse thingy. The fact that they only could find children's medium costums only made these guys look cooler!

This year, I wanted to throw it back a little bit. After much thought I decided to I wanted to be a little more Super this year. Not that Waldo and Ash (the Pokemon dude) aren't super.. they just aren't as super as the one and only QUAIL MAN!!!! That's right, Quail Man, underwear and all! For those of you who are confused about the idenity of Quail Man... you need to watch some Doug.

Anyways, here are a couple pics... hope you get a laugh!




This is Cliff, my roomate... he is dressed as Billy Madison. He would be a lot cooler if he would have wrote Frank the right way. Retard! j/k Cliff.

Onyx String Quartet

Last weekend I went downtown to meet up with a new friend of mine, Alexandra Early. Alex is a violinist who played at a wedding I was at a few weeks ago. I have to admit I was quite impressed with Alex's playing. Growing up I took viola lessons... for those of you who don't know, a viola is like a big violin. Much more manly than a violin, or maybe that's just what I told myself. Anyways, if you are looking for a string quartet or even just a solo violinist, you need to check out Alex's site. She has some samples on there, but take it from me.. she is VERY GOOD! Her website is http://onyxquartet.org/
Here are a few of the shots we got last weekend.

Holly & Adam

To see my favorites from Holly & Adam's shoot click here.


Above was probably my favorite image of the day.

Kate & Mark

Just a couple days ago I went out to Youngstown to meet up with Kate and Mark. We took a photo walk through the woods out by their house, it was beautiful! The trees were painted with the most beautiful colors of Autumn. The sky, blue. It was the perfect temperature for jeans and a t-shirt... which always feel great! The light was slightly harsh that day but we stayed in the woods so the pictures came out awesome. After our shoot we went over to the local hot-dog shop... Classic! It was goooood. And as if a chili dog and some wedding soup isn't inspiring enough.. they even put a little positive message out on their front sign! I love these kinds of places!

Jess & Kyle

Well, the leaves are changing colors... finally. So, now is the time that everybody wants to go out and do an engagement shoot! Last week I did 4 different couples and Jess & Kyle were the first of the bunch. We decided to start down at the Cultural Gardens for their engagement session. Jessica and Kyle were in the bridal party at wedding I had shot a couple weeks before. Dom and Stacy had all their wedding photography done there and Jessica really liked the location. We were bummed when we got to the Italian Garden and the fountain was off... but that didn't stop us from getting some great photos!

Once we were finished in the Gardens we went over to Ohio City to get a few more shots and grab some dinner. We found a couple colorful walls and pretty cool reflection... I had a great time with Jess and Kyle and I am really looking forward to their wedding!!! They are just a really fun couple that love to smile!! Couples like them make my job so easy!

If you want to see some more photos from the shoot, click here!

Marisa & Mike

A couple weeks back we shot the wedding of Marisa and Mike. What a day! It was a little bit overcast, but the rain held off all day for them. Some changing in plans forced M&M to bump their wedding they had planned for late December to September last minute. I really have to say, Marisa did a fine job putting together her day. They had their reception in her mom's backyard and it came out beautiful! Congratulations Marisa and Mike! Best of luck to the both of you!

If you want to see their slideshow... Click Here!


These were my favorite shots of Cliff's that day.