Making it Spring

As you'll read below, we had a cold day for a Spring Fashion shoot. How do you make it Spring. Most golf courses put so much nitrogeon in their lawns that they look almost flourescent - so I thought, hey, we can make it Spring in these Photos.

Newport Life Magazine

This past week, Andrea, over at Newport Life Magazine invited me to do the Fashion cover shoot for their Spring issue. Newport Life does a great magazine, and they've used alot of my images over the past few years for their Wedding Issue. So l was thrilled to work with them on this project. They secured two great models, Matt & Michelle. But imagine trying to do a Spring Fashion shoot in January. We had blazing blue sky, but it must have been 37 degrees. Add the wind chill and Burrrrrr Everyone was great. Andrea & Lynn had great ideas, and they also helped out with the reflectors. The models were super, but I felt for Michelle, who was freezing. But, you'd never know it in the photos. The two images here are my favorites from the day, but I've got over a hundred for the magazine.

St. John's Family Vacation

What a way to start the new year, a vacation in the Virgin island's.

More from St. John

Here are a few more images of St. John, and before I get emails saying nice digital manipulation of the Sunset. Those are straight out of the camera. Maho usually doesn't have great sunsets, because there is so little air pollution. This was our last night on a sunset sail on the High Country.

Maho Bay Vacation

Our family loves Maho Bay. It's an Eco-Camp on St. John's in the US Virgin islands. We went for the first time about 4 years ago, and we've been back every winter. www.maho.org What's cool about this place is we are camping in nice tents and then having our meals at the central dining hall, which is almost Bon Appetit style eating.

I usually don't take all my Camera gear down, just a little point and shoot Canon A95. This year I bought a digital point and shoot and had it converted for only taking B&W infrared photos. This is so much easier than the old days of IR film, that you had to keep in a refrigerator and keep in total darkness and expose for 30 seconds. All the B&W images are from a converted Nikon 5400.