Sowebo Festival - May 2009

A few photo impressions from the 2009 annual Sowebo (South West Baltimore Bohemian) festival. Slide show with more images http://georgeskeptonphotography.com/sowebo2009

Now Accepting Orders for Designer Frames

We have partnered with a major framing company and are happy to offer their entire line of designer eco friendly frames and mattes. These exceptional frames range from contemporary, traditional and classic and will look great on any wall. Here are a few samples out of hundreds of different style frames and mattes.

Contact us for more details and recommendations for type of frames for your special portrait. We are also integrating a page for you to customize your own frame for your images and are also partnering with other select companies for canvas wrapped art prints, metallic prints, prepress photo books, designer albums, and other high end photo products.

(Note - these images do not show the actual richness of our frames and any matte tile patterns and other artifacts on these computer generated images are not on the actual products).

Two Fine Artists Pass Away

I just heard today that a friend from the Baltimore Camera Club passed away suddenly. Barbara Williams, a great photographer, recently came down with an infectious virus and passed away within days. Before that, she was always full of life and sunshine. This is a reminder to me that life really is fragile.

I also heard today that the brother of 2 girls I knew a few years ago, just passed away. Edgar Argo was a well known cartoonist with a somewhat strange sense of humor.

The world will surely miss these two fine artists.

Model Mayhem Sly Horse Studios

Last week I attended another Model Mayhem event. This one was at Sly Horse Studios in Rockville. Met a lot of neat people and it was fun and an experience photographing so many models in one place. It was somewhat hectic and a long busy day. It was even longer getting photos ready for presentation with Photoshop and distribution to the models.
Last Saturday, Kristie & I went to the Fairy Festival in Spoutwood Farms - Glen Rock, PA. That was great fun too. Will have pictures up from that in a few days.
Here are the studio pictures from Saturday April 25. http://georgeskepton.com/mmsh2009

Model Mayhem Fells Point

Last week I attended a Model Mayhem meet & greet event at Fells Point in Baltimore city. Met a lot of neat people and it was fun. Got a lot of nice pictures. Some gritty and some beautiful - reflects the Fells Point area. Now, I'm getting ready to go to another Model Mayhem event At Sly Horse Studio in Rockville, Md. Here are pictures from last Sunday's event. http://georgeskepton.com/mmfp2009

Watchmen - Family Photos - Easter Weekend

Saw the movie "Watchmen" this weekend. Good movie, but rather long (2 hours 45 min). Good story - nice cinematography and lighting. Very violent - but stylized enough to take away the realness of the violence.

Worked on some family portraits for a friend who is leaving for Iraq in a few months.

Had a great Easter dinner with my family at my son's house and played with my grandaughter and took a vacation from photography.

Today, I worked with a photographer friend in the Caribbean to help her get her website to show up better in search engines. I gave her a few suggestions about adding links to her site, adding her site to social networks, registering with other photography related reciprocity linking sites, linking her other sites to her new site, and setting up a blog. I have to call her tomorrow about a few related issues. The weather here was chilly and grey - there it was warm and sunny as she looked out at the ocean. Nice for photography :)

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Redesigning the Studio

Completely updating the studio - which used to be a living room - then a master dining room - now it's my studio and part showroom. Still need a lot of work though for the showroom layout.

Also recently purchased the SensorKlear Loupe and SensorKlear pen and Giotto Rocket-air blower - they work great and got rid of a few sensor spots that were really bugging me. It's a lot cheaper than sending the camera off to be cleaned - you just need the guts to rub the cleaning pen on your sensor and a fairly steady hand.