I am a native of St. Simons Island, GA, and began my photography and arts career at an early age with my mom’s Canon F-1 and Nikromat cameras. Though initially self-taught in film, I am actively involved in digital photography and it is my passion.
I've earned two Bachelor of Science degrees from Georgia Southern University as well as an undergraduate focus in broadcasting. It was while working with Barefoot Video Production as a videographer and MAP International as a webmaster that the once abandoned hobby of photography began to usher back into my life.
Currently, I am a member of the Glynn Arts Association, president of the Coastal Photographer's Guild and am actively involved in displaying my art in local venues and abroad.
This year I had the priviledge once again to be the photographer for DNR’s CoastFest. It’s an event that teaches about Georgia’s coastal ecology and environment complete with hands-on learning and activities. Yes, people get to touch sharks, snakes and turtles — watch fish swim — and learn about the environment with a treasure hunt. Truly a fun day of learning and children who are focused on learning!
She completed the Treasure Hunt
We will be doing a macro field trip as part of the Coastal Photographer’s Guild coming up in just a couple of weeks. I haven’t had any formal training in macro photography so I thought I better brush up on a few skills. Actually, I had to look up some tutorials on YouTube to re-learn my one class (2 hours worth) of macro photography. Since the photo was taken outside and not under controlled conditions… meaning the wind was blowing, it was difficult to get a good shot without the blur. I think I may have gotten lucky on this one where I caught the breeze at a standstill and captured a pretty detailed shot of the Bromeliad’s blooming outside in the front yard.
I’ll have more in the coming weeks on my macro work so check back. For now, I hope you enjoy the one…
First, I have to say – I cannot thank Holley enough for being such a patient model for the two photo shoots we’ve done. I always like to say it’s impossible to take a bad photo of a beautiful model — there are too many good ones to choose from. I have done nothing special outside of carrying a camera with me at the right time of day and magic just seemed to happen.
Secondly, when you take a look through the photos, you may be as surprised as me and think to yourself… is that in Brunswick? Yes it is! This is Wendy Jefferies farm where Carousel will spend her days enjoying the pasture of green grass and more hay than a horse could ever dream of.
I am thrilled beyond words that Susan would entrust in me the art of capturing her daughter with her companion of more than 10 years, her pony – Carousel for senior casual portraits. Holley will be graduating high school this year and will be experiencing life abroad as a university college student in just a few short months. These are the senior photos that she and Susan will cherish forever. I only hope I was able to capture the small bit of love I saw between two best friends in these photos.
It was truly my pleasure to be a part of this special moment. Thank you to Holley, Susan and Carousel for some wonderful photos.
~Enjoy
Carousel and Holley
What a wonderful opportunity to go and spend some vacation time with friends at the beach. Sure I know, I live at the beach so why on Earth would I want to go and vacation at another one??? Well, simply said – Because it is Beautiful there! Although I must say, I am grateful to live on a small island (well near it) and even more grateful at how the community has tried to stop development as it happened down in Daytona and south of it. There was one skyrise condo after the next and made me have a better appreciation for our planning commission in keeping the island a little more natural looking. Hey, at least we have trees. Ponce Inlet probably even had them at one time.
Anyway, that’s beside the fact. I was invited by the Bland family to come and hang out with them for a couple of days. After all, Emma had her BFF with her, so why couldn’t the adults have their BFF too??? I saw no reason why not. So, I packed up my camera gear and had SUCH a wonderful time down there. Sat on the beach without a care in the world, blended some daiquiri’s, played frisbee and four-square… it just didn’t get much better that that. On the last night of being there, I decided to break out the camera and got some pretty neat shots that I believe captured the essence of their vacation.
To see the entire gallery – click here
~Enjoy
Time Off
Emma and Kristin
Callie and Emma - BFFs
Tony and Emma
To be such a dark and gloomy day – I don’t think the sun has been out in 3 days here – I managed to swipe a few good shots indoors today.
One of our Meetup members belongs to the St. Marks Episcopal Church in downtown Brunswick and mentioned that we may be able to setup there one morning. She did the legwork and was able to get us in this morning while the altar guild ladies were cleaning. Ever since I used to go to school right down the street from it, I had always wondered what it looked like on the inside.
When I walked in – seriously – it took my breath away. I couldn’t believe we had something this beautiful in our own hometown. Very old world style, dark interior, rich woods, beautiful stone and lights that remind you of an old movie where the lights are really candles. It looked as though I had stepped back 100’s of years in time.
I know there are only so many photos that can capture the inside of a church, so I did a little artistic touch on some of the photos and made them my own. All of this is handheld so if you comment, be gentle. And yes, I know, I LIKE contrast! And I think we can say – I Like Red!
~Enjoy
It has been awhile since my last post, but I’ve been learning a LOT in Lightroom and Photoshop. I recently did a portrait photo shoot and want to push to get a little more under my belt in gently brushing up a portrait. Some new techniques I learned were the high pass filter, more work on the healing tool and of course burning and dodging. I’ve never really had to do a whole lot with photos before so this challenged me. Not that the subject was bad, but because I’m looking at photos with a bit more scrutiny now.
First off, a great big thank you to Pete for having the faith and confidence in me to do his portraits. Thanks Pete! We did a shoot for his big news of being a Top 40 Under 40 in Savannah’s Business Magazine. Congratulations again for that! He needed some portraits both for the upcoming issue and his business ads. He’s passionate about ‘Green’ living and wanted a setting that would reflect that – natural, marshes, rustic – you get the idea. We got some great shots and I had him pick out some of his top picks (about 10) so I could quickly turn them around.
Here are some before and after shots of his chosen set. If you click on the first image – that’s the untouched up one and the second image of the series incorporates the Healing brush, burning and dodging, surface blur, high pass filter and an inverted hue and saturation layer to brighten the teeth. The most important thing for me was to keep Pete looking natural and not over processed. Sure we could have gone extreme in skin softening, but that’s not what we were going for.
Enjoy
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What a fantastic weekend! I was invited to a concert over the weekend in Hilton Head Island and as a ‘just-in-case’, I decided to pack my gear in the hopes that I could try out some concert photos. I introduced myself to the tour manager Brian, asked if it would be okay to take some photos of the band during the show and he was more than accommodating in allowing me to take photos.
The lights, the sound, the energy was more than I had ever expected! So many people will be quick to say – ‘Oh they’re just another cover band’, but they were so much more than that. They played some of the most obscure (and personal favorite) Floyd tunes like Pigs (Three Different Ones), to of course the most recognized songs such as Comfortably Numb, Another Brick in the Wall and Learning to Fly.
I tried to capture a little bit of the energy that was pouring out during the concert and hope you enjoy the photos. Since this is my first concert, no flash and hand held camera – I hope you can get a little bit of the feel of the show. Man would I LOVE to do this full time! Anyone know how I can break into concert photography??? I’m all ears!
Oh yeah, Thank You Jonathan for inviting me to a GREAT show!
Jesse Molloy
Tom Quinn
by Debbie
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