Jon & Hannah - June 2011

from the wedding of Jon & Hannah. Beautiful bride, handsome groom, great friends and family, fantastic venue at Kent Island Manor and loads of fun people.

Victorian Mourning

From a Victorian Mourning photo and video shoot last Saturday with Kelley. A while back Kelly and I decided to do a photo shoot at the cemetery. I'm stating to play with digital video a bit and took a seminar with Maryland PPA on Video Fusion and decided to do a video. When Kelley drove up and I looked in the car, she was stunning. This is the product of our collaboration and efforts. I'm still working on rights to the music - which might have to be changed.

coming soon

Alena - Mid Winter Album

Photo session last week with Alena at Studio 128 West in Baltimore. Here's a short video of some of he images. It's a bit on the dark side.



Photos can be seen at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=262559&id=638092913&l=d81805e178

FaerieCon 2010 - Day 2

A convention day of rich beauty and frivolity while fairies shop and vendors clink their golden coins. And the art of Steampunk - Victorian steam age and modern fantasy technology blending in with the fantasy of faerie worlds.

What a fantastic event - good faeries, bad faeries, wizards, goblins, trolls, forest and woods people, Victorian and Elizabethans, steampunks and goths, just plain beautiful people, fashion, trinkets, music, and live bands made for a wondrous day. Here are a few photos from the day 2 convention and some from the evening's Bad Faeries Ball.

The Bad Faeries Ball was the Saturday evening event at Faeriecon when all the bad faeries came out to play and frolic and dance. Music of the evening was by Cecile Corbel from Brittany and her musicians and the band Faun from Germany. Some of the faeries hung outside and cast spells on each other. Others watched and listened to the bands while others danced to the spirit of the music.

I hope some of these images help convince you that the worlds of mythical creatures sometimes come to life in a big and beautiful way to share their world with us. Believe.

Entire Facebook albums of  FaerieCon Day 2  and The Bad Faeries Ball

Baltimore Diamond Dash - Smyth Jewelers & SCVNGR

I was the official photographer and event partner for the SCVNGR Smyth Jewelers Baltimore Diamond Dash scavenger hunt for the $20,000 diamond ring in the Inner Harbor on Sept 18. Weather was beautiful - sunny and pleasant. It was a workout for everybody. Sore feet - sore legs - but it was fun.

I just realized how much work it was for me and all the contestants to run from Power Plant Live, to all over the inner harbor and then across President St and part of Little Italy. The Annapolis Dash was in a nice and confined more relaxed area. This was crazy.

Here is a short Animoto Video put together by SCVNGR with my photos and here are some images on my Facebook Album for the event - more to come. 

Sunflower Fields

Kristie & I went to dinner at my son's Monday evening and stopped off and photographed the sunflower fields on Jarretsville Pike across the street from the Royal Farm store. Oceans of beautiful brilliant yellow sun flowers - hundreds of acres as far as the eye can see. Here's a few images with a bit of artistic freedom for a new look at the sunflower.

Evening Light

The Blaster

Sunbathing

Sunflowers at Rivers Edge (not really)

Sunflower Smiles

From a Hot Summer Afternoon on the River

Met up with a few other photographers at Patapsco State Park through Model Mayhem for a Meet & Greet Shoot Last Sunday. It was really really hot - about 100 degrees, so a few of us decided to go down to the river and cool off. Here's a few images. Full slide show is here

http://georgeskeptonphotography.com/portraits/Patapsco2010/

Danielle - Just Being Hot

Lori - A Bit Retro

Trai - Enjoying the Cool Water and Watching us Work

Danielle Cooling Down