Outdoor music has always been a favorite of mine.  The summer of 2009 looks to be a breakout year for the Fredericksburg area with big names such as Toad the Wet Sprocket (and opening band Eddie From Ohio), Little Feat, even Zoso – a Led Zeppelin tribute band.  The venue will be back in the […]

Foreclosures in Spotsylvania

Images from Courtland High School’s victory over Salem in the Group AA Division 4 state basketball tournament.

I’ve been on night shift this week shooting various regional basketball games. I made the decision to light most of the venues using SB-800 strobes at 45-degree angles to the top of the key. If you can get your lights high enough, you can produce some nice-looking images. However if you’re not careful, you can […]

Got a great business idea? Maybe been the unfortunate target of a layoff? Working independently and want to expand? There are a couple of new activities going on here in the Fredericksburg area that might be a help. Business Playce is now offering a co-work environment, and SCORE is trying to get executive volunteers local. […]

A few weeks back after seeing another photographer do this, I thought it would be a good idea to just put up a picture from every assignment, not just the very best. The idea essentially is to push myself to do better daily work through an exercise in public humiliation. In my case only a […]

The other day I deleted my blog It Beats Working For a Living. It was an accident – the sort of thing that happens when you let an idiot like me near the inner workings of a website and carte blanche with an ftp client. Anyway, IBWFAL is probably still in existence somewhere but if […]

I just returned from a nice vacation with the wife. It was tough leaving our little one for a few days with the Grandparents, but he seemed to have had a great time. Just noticed that it’s been almost two weeks since writing a blog post. Several posts had been kicking around in my mind, […]

Help the local economy, support your local restaurant.  This week begins the 2009 restaurant week (actually a little longer than a week).  From now until the end of Jan, you can experience lunch for $10.09 and dinner for $20.09 at many of your favorite dining establishments.  Call it our local bailout.  Call it a good […]