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Category Archives: Fun stuff

Fall Colors at the Sleeping Bear Dunes

The rusty colored sands of the Sleeping Bear Dunes seem to glow against the subtle blues of Lake Michigan. I visited this area that Good Morning America named “The most Beautiful Place in America” just before heading west to visit Colorado and New Mexico. The fall colors here were remarkable. I wanted to catch the...

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Great Lakes Guitar Shoot in Traverse City

Timothy Miller contacted me recently about setting up a photo shoot to showcase a couple of his hand-crafted guitars. Tim creates guitars for Hooters restaurants and Cooters Place, a Dukes of Hazard themed store in Nashville, TN. Tim liked the work I did with various models and asked if I would be interested in setting...

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Lodges of East Lansing Clubhouse Shoot

Construction is ongoing but the Lodges of East Lansing is shaping up to become a nice student apartment community located on the edge of the Michigan State University campus. Located on Hanna Blvd just off Hagadorn road near the MSU Campus it is closer to campus than it’s competition. The Lodges feature several amenities to...

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Light Painted backdrops.

This series of photographs was shot using a couple LED rope lights that I bought at Menards. The most important thing to consider when doing this type of shoot is to set your aperture for the proper exposure and to focus on your model’s eyes before you shut off the light as the room has...

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Long Exposure Photographs featuring Meg Howard

Last night I was inspired to make some photo art so I grabbed my tripod and started shooting.     Both of these photos were pretty easy to make. I set my camera on a tripod facing the computer screen and turned down the screen’s brightness. Next  I opened Adobe Lightroom and found a folder...

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More from Claudia at Phatpuppy

Claudia does it again. She has been using some of my photographs as the basis for her art. We have only been working together for a week and so far she’s edited four photos and had one accepted for the cover of a new novel. How cool is that?? Both of these are photographic art...

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Book covers and Phatpuppy Art

I have recently been working with a very talented artist named, Claudia Bartoli-McKinney to create works of art in order to submit them as book covers. Claudia uses my photographs to create the works of art.  Her clients include; Random House, Llewellyn Publishers, Flux, and more Claudia and I teamed up a couple days ago...

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Immersive 360 Degree Virtual Tour of the Lodges of East Lansing

I just added a new tool to my photographic arsenal. Click on the photo above to be taken to an immersive 360 degree view of the model four-bedroom apartment at the  Lodges of East Lansing. Not only was this was a lot of fun to shoot,  I love the results. It almost makes you feel...

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Our new products page

I am happy to announce a new way to view products on my main website page. The list is too big for me to go into here but we offer almost any product you can imagine for photographs. Click this link to view the catalog. I put together a few items to show you some...

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Fun with Photoshop painting brushes

Lake house 2010 The leaves are changing in Northern Michigan, Autumn is here again. Yesterday I took my father’s boat out for a spin and took my camera along as well. This photo was taken on Green Lake in Interlochen. When I loaded the image in Photoshop I thought that it would look nice as...

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