Little League State Tournament

Here are a few highlights of the 9-10 Year Old West Virginia Little League State Tournament.

Baseball Highlights

Almost didn't make a post for June. We've been at one ball park or another almost everynight.

Here are a few highlights from tonights game.

Busy Busy

Here are a few of my favorite images from my recent trip to NYC.

Lots going on in Times Square on a rainy evening.

A couple share a quiet romantic moment in a very loud place.

Jumped into Paparazzi mode as Actor/Rapper Ice T signed a few autographs as he came out of Rockefeller Center.

This looked like fun!

A tough week!

Busy week with numerous seniors and dance girls and a little commercial work thrown in.

The dance girls were a blast! Alot of attitude in this shot.

Heading out to New Jersey in the morning to judge the Professional

Photographers of New Jersey photo competition and then on to

New York City for a few days.

An Entertaining Studio Session

Had a blast with this studio session today. The Old Brick Players (http://www.theoldbrick.org/) are a very talented local theatrical group that I had the pleasure of shooting today. We always have fun when they come by and todays images are some of the best yet.

The first thing I noticed when they came in were the shoes they had on.

Check these out!

Girl Scouts Visited Today!

Today we had 14 Girl Scouts come visit our studio to get basic
info that they will need to get merit badges.
What a fun group of girls! They had lots of great questions.
I had the hardest time trying to explain that weird stuff in
a can that we used to put our pictures on called "film". Film
was well on its way out when they were babies.

WVU Victory over Notre Dame

Wellington Smith slams one in for the Mountaineers!

What a physical game! It looked a little like WWF at one point.

PPWV Spring Convention 2009

"Can I Come In"

Busy Weekend! The PPWV Spring Convention held in Morgantown at Lakeview Resort was a big success. Lots of learning and lots of socializing. Tom Gilson put together a great lineup of speakers. It looks like I get the honor of putting together the 2010 convention. I've already started making plans and we should have a firm date and location soon. If you are interested in Speaking, Judging, exhibiting or helping let me know.

In the print competition I took home four blue ribbons along with the Phillips-Rittenhouse best news photo award and I took second place for Black & White portrait (see "Can I Come In" above") I made this image a while back for the Old Brick Playhouse here in Elkins. The model is Dub Campbell, super nice guy but this shot makes him look pretty menacing.

Christie was elected to the position of PPWV Secretary/Treasurer and I was elected to Vice-President at the General Membership meeting. Its going to be a busy year!

Imaging USA

Just got back from Imaging USA in Phoenix last week and really learned alot. We learned from numerous great photographers that specialize in Wedding, Seniors and Sports.

Phoenix is an awesome place to be when its winter at home. This is the third year in a row we have been fortunate enough to spend a little bit of winter in Arizona. The city is very nice, the downtown area has just been renovated to include the new Phoenix Convention Center and Sheraton Hotel. They said it is one of the largest convention centers in the country and it is very nice. It is also right beside US Airways arena where the Phoenix Suns play and Chase Field where the Arizona Diamondbacks play. A new light rail system just opened up too that takes you from one side of Phoenix to the other.

The worst part of the trip was coming home to some real nasty weather.

I took along the new Canon G10 point and shoot for these images. I spent some quality time with the instruction manual on the flight and the camera is loaded with cool features.

Meinke Car Care Bowl Highlights

Bradley Starks catches one of the many touchdown passes.
The first quarter reminded me of a run and gun basketball
game with each team charging down the field to score.


Former Heavy-Weight Boxing Champ George Foreman attended the game as the official spokesperson for Meinke Car Care Centers that sponsored the game.

Pat White flashes me one last smile in his final game as a Mountaineer. What a classy guy, putting his team and education before many other options that he could have taken.
I'm looking forward to getting more shots of him in an NFL uniform. Good Luck Pat!

What a busy and great 2008. I'm looking forward to 2009 to be just as busy.
We are heading off to Phoenix next week to attend Imaging USA. It looks like a great lineup of speakers and Arizona in January is always a good thing. This is the third year in a row I've been fortunate enough to spend a week or so of winter in Arizona and it really helps break up the long cold West Virginia winters.

Mountaineer Fans

Ran into some friends at the Bowl game from Elkins.


Matt Fair formerly of Elkins and now lives in Port St. Lucie, Florida
shows that he is still a Mountaineer at heart.

The Kiess boys Trevor, Christopher and dad Jeff show real Mountaineer spirit.
Jeff you should really have done the wig thing too!

Steelers Vs Cowboys

T.O. not a happy camper after the Steelers pull off a last minute victory on a very cold night.


Pac Man is back or is he? First game back from suspension, the former Mountaineer was doing real well until he got smashed, this time on the field. It happened about 10 yards in front of where I was. He was physically crushed into the bottom of the pile on a kick off return attempt. The whole Steeler defensive line was on top of him and all the sudden one of them pulled him out of the bottom like a limp rag doll. He came back in later in the game but I guarantee he was hurting worse than any hangover in the morning.

Steeler Deshea Townsend shows his true feelings after making the game winning play.

Heading down to Charlotte to shoot the Meinke Car Care Bowl, WVU Vs North Carolina.

It should be an event. Hopefully I will have victory photo's to post! Go Mountaineers!

Family Portraits

I have been covered up lately shooting anything and everything. Families, Children, Seniors, Football, Basketball, Cheerleaders and of course Christmas portraits already.

Never a dull moment. I've recently been described as the ADD photographer since I don't really concentrate on a single subject.

Here are some WVU Football shots taken by myself and my family members.

This one was taken by my son Kris. It was his first WVU football game as a student and

he got to shoot it from the sidelines with me. Not a bad gig for a freshman! He did a real

nice job.

DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES

The above image was taken by my son Greg who was setup in the end zone and I took the image below from the sidelines at exactly the same time.

The image below is one of the favorites I have taken this season.

The image below is the best Pat White photo I have ever seen and unfortunately I didn't take it. My wife Christie captured this one. Everything is perfect the stance, the light on the face, the logo on the football is perfectly placed and the black stuff coming up from the turf. I have literally hundreds of great Pat White shots after four seasons but this one is awesome. I printed it on metallic paper and framed it last week for my collection.

What a photographer does on his day off....

After taking several thousand shots of the Forest Festival, what did I do on my first "day off"?

Took more pictures....The fall colors were so beautiful I couldn't stay inside. Here are a couple highlights.

Craig Morgan and Lady Antebellum

Craig Morgan and Lady Antebellum performed at the Forest Festival Country Music show this year and here are a few of my favorite images from that show. Craig played alot of new tunes from his new album coming out this week.

I saw Lady A perform at the pregame show of the Steelers/Jags game last winter. It was freezing and the snow was blowing like crazy and they had to perform. I had never heard of them then but now they are all over the charts.

Forest Festival Begins Again

Been real busy lately. Lots of Seniors, lots of football and soccer kids. Last weekend we attended the PPWV fall convention in Princeton, West Virginia. I was one of the judges in the print competition, we had a great turnout.

Wow, I don't know where the times goes but its time for the Forest Festival to get started. In just the last few days the leaves have been changing quickly and the air just feels like fall. It will be a hectic week as usual. My job is to pretty much go to every event and document with photographs what went on. Its a great job this week when all I get to do is shoot but next week we will pay by spending days organizing and preparing the photo's for the albums.

Here are some shots from tonights Eddie Money concert. The blonde singer is Eddie's daughter Jesse, very talented.

Steelers win regular season opener against Texans

Its time to play football and the Steelers are starting out on the right foot.


Steeler QB Ben Roethlisberger gives some advice to his new backup QB and former Marshall star Byron Leftwich.


Former Mountaineer Steve Slaton makes his regular season pro debut playing for the Houston Texans. Its weird to see him in number 20 after being number 10 for WVU for so long. He played alot for a rookie but the big guys in the pros didn't give him much of a chance to take off down the field like he did at WVU.

Trip to Maine

Just got back from a mini-vacation to Acadia National Park in Maine. What a beautiful place, or as the locals would say "It's wicked gawjus".


Everywhere you look is another scene out of a travel guide. I really want to go back when I have more time to explore. I really wish I could have made the trip in about 30 more days to catch the foliage. The coast was still very green but on I-95 between Bangor and Augusta you can already see the change beginning.


Above is a shot of the Somesville Bridge, this is the WV equivalent of the Glade Creek Mill. All photographers are required by law to photograph it. I would love to shoot a bridal session on this bridge!

The Class of 2009

Elkins Senior Moriah-Brought some really great outfits, I had a hard time picking a favorite image. Doesn't she look like Eliott on Scrubs?

Elkins Senior Courtney- I've photographed Courtney since she was in pre-school. Man, I am not that old!!!! What a great smile!

BUHS Senior Tanner-I've taken his photo since he was in Little League. Super nice guy, I don't think he was real excited about the whole picture taking thing but by the end he found out it didn't hurt a bit and it was more fun than he thought. We did some fishing shots and football and he's coming back soon with his truck.

Harman HS Senior-Travis-He really brought the stuff! Snowboard, Baseball, Golf! This guy does it all! We got some great snowboard shots....indoors in the middle of August.