Monday, February 25, 2008

Great Weekend

This past weekend marks the 4th straight weekend that I have had friends come and visit me here in Nashville. I must say that it is so refreshing to have familiar faces around me. This weekend Taylor and Lauren paid me a visit. Taylor helped me out with a shoot on Saturday morning for Kirstie Lane and then we collaborated on a photoshoot for a band called The Four Kicks. We had such a great time this weekend, and I hope it won't be the last one! Here are a few images from this weekend.





Tuesday, February 19, 2008

New Things To Come

Well it seems that it is that time of the year that people are wanting photos taken so business for me is starting to pick up. I am very excited about doing some projects coming up. Friday night Taylor Jones and Lauren are heading up to Nashville for the weekend. Yes, this will be my third straight weekend to have visitors... But that's not a bad thing at all! Taylor is coming up and we are going to collaborate on a shoot for a band. My friend Austin Gros is also going to join us. Be on the lookout for Austin, he is a new up and coming photographer with a great eye for interesting compositions. It is going to be a great weekend packed with some interesting ideas. I will probably post up some new work come the beginning of next week. I hope everyone enjoyed their Presidents Day yesterday!

-Joel

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Weekend To Remember

Well this past weekend has been one that I will keep close to me. My brother Matt came up to visit me and the city. It was very refreshing having him around. We cooked some good food, sat around and talked for a while, and we even went to the Brad Paisley concert on friday night. Talk about one of the better shows I have been to in my life. We saw Rodney Atkins open up for Brad and Rodney puts on a good show. But when Brad came out on stage, it was a non stop roller coaster of sing-a-longs and guitar solos. We were 10th row center but the stage extended out to the 9th row... So basically as you can see in the picture we had front row seats.


Well the weekend was pretty amazing by having my brother with me but it got even better because my good friend Andrew came up for the weekend also. We went and saw the Predators vs. Blues game. The Preds came out on top when the game went to sudden death over time. I had plenty of hotdogs at the game and we also got free hats!


Andrew also asked me if I could snap some pictures of him. He is a great guy and I enjoyed having him up here to Nashville.


Monday, February 11, 2008

Eric Love

This past weekend I had the wonderful opportunity to have my good friend Eric Love come up from Auburn University and experience Nashville for the first time in a long time. We walked around downtown and did the touristy fun stuff on Broadway and then we also took some time to relax.

Eric is a car guy, plain and simple. I snapped a few photos of his very nice Nissan 350z before he headed back to Auburn. It was a treat to have him come up to visit and I think that I might have him hooked on Nashville! It really is a lovely city and I encourage all of my friends to take some time and make the drive to the Music City at some point.

Saturday, February 2, 2008

New Shots

So alot of new things have been happening in my world. I have a few photo shoots lined up which I am absolutely excited about! This morning I was down at the Lake Fever Studios and had the wonderful opportunity to grab a few shots of some great people. I am going to start doing a different sort of post processing work on my images. Here is a sample image from today. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think! My hands will be full from sorting through and editing alot of these shots but this was the first one out of the batch that caught my eye. I really don't like being in a room on a computer all day while the weather outside is absolutely perfect but at least I have a nice big window beside my desk that I can open and enjoy the fresh air! I wish everyone the best!