Tag Archives: black and white photography

Determination! Tennessee Family and Children’s Photographer

This little one is determined!! She wants to walk and has just the other began to crawl. She is sweet, funny, attentive, curious, smart and is going to be running around the block before her parents and older brother know it!

Only six months old!

classic with her silver rattle

peeking over dad's head

love from dad

she loves playing with hair

walking with the help of mom and dad

philosophical

checking out the world

nothing like a soft pink blankie

love from mom

conversations with her bear

sweet, silly face

walking on the table in her sailor dress

all this fun is making her tired

Bluegrass Underground January 2011

Bluegrass Underground started the 2011 year with a huge bang!! Two groups who are probably the funniest, most entertaining I have seen in a while! Cumberland Caverns will never be the same. The crowd was LARGE. Not since the taping back in May for PBS has the crowd been this big.

After a great mini warm up by the fabulous Travis Stinson, The Cleverly’s took the stage. Doing renditions of “I Gotta a Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas, “I Kissed a Girl” by Katy Perry and “Walk Like an Egyptian” by the Bangles one cannot help but smile and dance in their seats. I think they would be a fabulous band to have a wedding! I would coin these guys as nerdy, modern cowboys. They left me full of inspiration.

Travis Stinson

The Cleverlys with Otto demonstrating how to walk like an Egyptian.

The brothers: Digger, Miles and Vernon Dean aka VD

A portrait of Vernon Dean

Portrait of Miles: singer and poet

Cousin Harvey D. Woody look a like and drummer

I love this one of Vernon Dean

Harvey's Drum

Digger, always with a smile or smirk or sly grin on his face

Cousin Otto, always gracious for applause

The headliners took the stage next. Riders in the Sky not only are colorful musically but their dress, stage set and stories of the cowboy way will keep one with a colorful smile on one’s face! I just adored these guys. So humble to have won so many awards. Their set with stuffed armadillos, a Woody (Toy Story) doll, creative campfire and cactus had me wondering and anticipating their performance. So much great music that comes from the cave…I may just have to buy another ipod to hold it all.

Portrait of Too Slim

The guys, larger than life cowboys

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Portrait of Polka King Joey

Too Slim as roadkill armadillo

Happy Trails

Portrait of Ranger Doug

Portrait of Woody Paul

A yodeling cowgirl

A favorite of mine

on stage at the cave

cowboy hats

Kiddos on stage with Woody Paul

Most of the crowd in the cave

Too Slim

Face Playin'

Woody Paul cheesin' for the camera

Happy Trails to you Ghost Riders in the Sky traveling through the Tumbling Tumbleweeds!!

Tennessee Nature Photographer: Snow Kisses Historic Old Hickory Village

Pink Garage on Cleves Street

White Picnic Table on Eleventh Street

Trike on Clarke Street

Stickies on Riverside Drive

Airstream on Cleves Street

Tennessee Nature Photographer: Winter Dawn

Was up before the sunrise this morning to capture dawn’s early light. It was only 13 outside. Looking forward to the snow tomorrow.

Black Ice Morning: Tennessee Nature Photographer

Black Ice on Clarke Street

Kitty on Black Ice

Holy Leaf on Asphalt

Big Yellow Leaf on Frosty Ground

Frosty Seedpod Disks

Riverside Drive by the Locust Tree

Ice on the Black Car

Ice Abstract #85

Ice Abstract #98

Ice Abstract #73

Icy Red Abstract #1

Icee Carpet

Winter Wedding at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center

I will always remember the flood of 2010. One building that sustained serious damage was Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center. They were closed for months, a chain link fence surrounding the building, no music coming from it’s heart.

pumping water out of the building those first days after the flood

My friend, Elizabeth James, wedding planner guru called me a few months ago to see if I was interested in photographing the first wedding at the SSC after it’s grand re opening and the first one of 2011. I said yes! What a fabulous decision!

A few weeks ago I met the bride, Cathy and Elizabeth at the symphony to do Cathy’s bridal portrait session. Here are a few of my favorites!

Saturday, January 1, 2011 Cathy married Ben! Here are some preliminary images from the day.

The entrance foyer was transformed into an elegant ceremony space.

Cathy and Ben after their first dance.

Tulip Tree did a bang up job on creating a vintage winter wonderland.

tall vases full of orchids lined the aisle of the ceremony site

reception area

guests tables

Maples Wedding Cakes created a funky, elegant, organic cake with gray pearlized fondant. It was just beautiful. Reminding me not only of flower petals but also had a Chihuly feel to them. The cake was really yummy too. Wish I had a piece now.

More favorites from the day in no particular order.

Cathy and her little sister sharing a moment before the ceremony.

Emotions flowed during the vows.

Cathy waiting for her que.

I wish you could hear what this sounded like. Heavenly.

The wedding guests were lead out to the front of the Symphony by these guys playing "When the Saints Come Marching In".

The Groom

The Jimmy Church Band

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Vintage Bentley from Matchless Limousine

It ended with blustery wind and really cold temps but everyone's heart was warm for Ben and Cathy.

Reminiscing on New Year’s Day 2011

If I had to have a goal for 2011… it would be to travel more to locations far and near! I have been looking at some “vintage” images from the nineties and am really getting the itch.

El Morro in Puerto Rico, 1993

El Morro, 1993

St. Francis Church in Rancho de Taos, New Mexico 1993 or 95?

Back view of the church. A favorite subject for Georgia O'Keefe

Mailboxes somewhere in Santa Fe

Window at an art gallery in Santa Fe

Stormy afternoon on the high road between Santa Fe and Taos

Going to the Sun Highway in Glacier National Park, 1993

Another view from Going to the Sun highway. I was so in love at this time of my life, all ready to move to Montana for a man! I still love Montana and would love to go back.

glacier creek, I admit I took some rocks from the creek and made some really heavy jewelry with them

a trail in Glacier National Park

Three Generations in Jamaica

Home in Jamaica

Paradise Gardens, home of Howard Finster

This was during my first fascination with infrared film. I shot and experimented a ton with color infrared.

Biblical Message on foot path at Paradise Gardens

Come Back Winter

Today, December 30th, 2010 it is 60 outside! Tomorrow we are suppose to have thunderstorms. While I am thankful that there is no ice or bad roads or a city shut down because of a blizzard, I should wouldn’t mind winter to return. I love the light and shadows that winter provides and the colors. I guess I should be careful what I wish for but the snow a few weeks back was so pretty and the frosty morns give me good reason to smuggle my camera under my coat while taking Bear for a walk. Did you know that Bear is shedding because it has gotten warmer. I have almost brushed out a full “sweater” of Bear fur.

the pretty blanket of snow

pretty bird feeder

view from the living room

fresh snow angel

Nibbles in fresh snow

frog with snow toupee'

frozen foggy morning

birds snacking on berries

swoosh

the night after the lunar eclipse

ice crystals

The Red Barn and a Spectacular Sunset

I love this red barn. I photograph it several times a year. Wonder if I will ever tire of it?

The barn in December.

HWY 56

My guide.

HWY 70 sunset near HWY 96

Tennessee Nature Photographer: Christmas in the Cave

for Bluegrass Underground on December 18th. freezing weather, foggy glasses as I step into the cave … greeted by a huge tree full of lights and of course fantastic music!

The Gypsy Hombres