Recent Publicty Photos for Bright Star Touring Theatre

Very talented actress, Ashley, as 'Lady Kindness' with one of her adoring fans, Stella!

 

Jason as 'Merchant Mark' in The Lady Of Bullyburg.

Actor, Jason, as a little boy named, Jack, goes back in time with the help of a magical book to meet many colorful characters in US history. Here he is with Neil Armstrong!

Actress, Ashley, pondering thoughts of 'The Declaration of Independence' as Thomas Jefferson.

These recent photos are for Bright Star Touring Theatre for their performances of 'The Lady of Bullyburg' and 'Jack's Adventure in American History.'

Fall Family Session at the Asheville Arboretum!

I LOVE PHOTOGRAPHING THIS TIME OF YEAR! I'm sure you can agree that the colors in the mountains of Asheville are some of the most insane colors in the world.

So I was thrilled to have a family session scheduled mid-October with one of my repeated clients and dear friends, McKenzie and Peter. Peter's side of the family has had some wonderful additions to the family recently.....a new grandchild, Samantha, and a new daughter/sister-in-law, Kristin. What a great time to photograph the entire family, right?! Well, we all met at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville on a cool fall afternoon and had ourselves a blast {not to mention a ton of laughs- mostly at me making faces and laying in the middle of the road hoping nobody would run me over!}. 

I started photographing the newlywed's, Kristin and Will, first:

Then it was time to get the parents involved:

And here is Peter and McKenzie with their sweet daughter Samantha {oh and their dogs, Winston and Sadie}:

 

More fun as a whole family:

Local Photog's New Headshots!

I have a very talented and wonderful friend here in Asheville, who happens to be an incredibly talented photographer. Her name is Rachael Mcintosh. I met her at Corey McNabb's Photography workshop back in 2009. She just launched her new website and wanted some new headshots done. Here's what I took....

Concours d'Elegance event in Michigan

O.k., so I'm not the hugest fan of cars per say, but I secretly want a 1920's gangster car where I have this sexy photo of me coming out of it car wearing bright red lipstick and a vintage dress with a slit up the front, a furry shall around my shoulders, a BIG fancy hat, oh and long gloves on my hands, holding one of those long cigarette holders. I'm ready for my shoot, who ever wants to do this for me. LOL! I just need to find a black gangster car, oh and the whole outfit, but I'm just sayin'. 

In all seriousness, I had the opportunity to photograph a bunch of old cars this summer at the Concours d'Elegance Event on the campus of Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. And I found my gangster car. Many of them. Here's the one I want {while you cannot really see the entire car, but the hood ornament shows you what I'm talking about!}. 

Here are some other photos I took of the many cars featured for the very successful fundraising event.

Sweet Kiss in Asheville

A dear friend of mine, Robin, is newly in love and wanted to celebrate her boyfriends birthday by presenting him with a photo of where they had their 'first kiss!' This is a scene from a movie. Right? When Harry Met Sally kinda romantic scene? I'm telling you, when she said....."I want to hire you to take a photo of where we had our first kiss, could you do that?" I mean how adorable and romantically sweet is this?! She said that her boyfriend's favorite building downtown Asheville {the cite where they had their first kiss} is the backdrop for this picture. So here is what I took for her.....

Here is the new fountain downtown Asheville and the Jackson Building right behind it.

Another view of the Jackson Building.

Here she is in all her glory.

Headshot session with mother, daughter team!

These two fabulous mother daughter team, Cary and Ashleigh, asked me to photograph their new head shots for an upcoming audition opportunity  for the United Professional Theatre Auditions in Memphis, Tennessee {break a leg ladies!}. The three of us headed downtown Asheville and had ourselves a total blast. We giggled and laughed and all felt like rock stars. And I wasn't even the one being photographed. 

Most times, as a photographer, behind the camera you are concentrating on details and technical things, but with these ladies, everything seemed to have come naturally and our sense of humors really made for an awesome Sunday afternoon! In fact, I have a knack for paying attention to details and I found myself not being the only one. With each others help, we made sure to keep an eye out for 'fly away hairs' or 'lipstick on the teeth.' Thank you ladies for allowing me the opportunity to photograph your head shots and all the referrals that have been coming my way!!!

This photo of Ashleigh is the winner!!!

Look at those beautiful blue eyes! WOW!

Told ya we had fun!!!

The gorgeous eyes in this family! WOW!

This one is the winner for Cary!

Art in the Airport

Three of my photographs have been on display at the art gallery since June {I know, I know....took me awhile to post, sorry!} at the Asheville Regional Airport until October 12th, 2010 in Asheville, North Carolina.

Many friends and family have been in and out of the airport all summer and have gotten a look at the gallery.....take a gander to see what photos are on display. In fact, if you are planning on flying in and or out of the airport anytime soon, please take a moment to go into the gallery {by the baggage claim} and see all the other artist on display! Oh and by the way, my photographs are available for purchase through the Asheville Airport Art Gallery. Please contact Amy Burritt for more details.

This photo above was taken at Looking Glass Falls in Brevard, North Carolina

This photo above was taken in Hendersonville, North Carolina

This photo above was taken at Michigan Central Station in Detroit, Michigan

Lifestyle session with Avery & Brett

I love to photograph kids. Especially kids who are shy and reserved at first, but then after awhile, they turn into your best friends in a matter of 5 minutes! Well, my recent session with Avery and Brett happened to have been that kind of shoot. I have to say this particular sweet brother and sister team melted my heart. Their mom, Cindy, happens to be a very dear and close friend of mine since childhood and this was the first time I met her kids. I recently visited my home town of Rochester, Michigan a couple of weeks ago {sorry I'm not Johnny on the spot with my blog updates!} and was contacted by Cindy to have me photograph her kids. Well, you can just imagine how thrilled I was to have this opportunity! 

We met at the park and quickly jumped into chatting and laughing about preparations to get there and so forth......well, we cut to the chase and I began photographing the very adorable Avery. Shortly after my, oh lets say, twentieth click, Avery put her hand in front of her face {like a stop sign} and said "ok, I'm done!" and walked to the play ground to pose for another shot. She was all about the camera. I would begin my sentence with "Hey sweetie, I got an idea, how about....." and it was like she read my mind! Poof. She would pose herself in the exact position and facial expressions I was looking for. And she isn't EVEN 4! I mean, really?! Really?! Melted my heart. 

Now, I turned behind me to see what Brett was doing and he was all about not getting his picture taken and was all about negotiating his 'if I'm really good' prize with his mom. So he proceeded to tell me all about the movies and video games he was hoping to get. Which, I think helped win him over cuz I was keeping up with this sweet 6 year old's Jedi lingo! {Thanks to my strong love for Star Wars when I was his age}!

I wanted Cindy to get in there with them too.....

Thank you Avery and Brett for warming my heart.....