Kristin and Chubb-Chubb

My lovely wife Kristin and my beautiful boy Calder (a.k.a. Chubb-Chubb).

Piper

Mark Richt for Georgia Magazine

Back in Athens, GA today, at my old school, The University of Georgia (woofwoofwoof) to photograph none other than Georgia Bulldogs Head Coach Mark Richt and his beautiful wife Catherine for an upcoming cover story in Georgia Magazine.
Mark and Catherine are like newlyweds, holding hands, very sweet, playful and loving. Good lesson for all of us, given that they've been married for almost 20 years.
The photos are embargoed until the magazine goes to press, but in the meantime, here's me with the two Richts:




While we're on the subject of Georgia Bulldogs, here's an old UGA anecdote from my past. Back in my high school days, I lived in Savannah, and our house was a few doors down from the Seilers, owners of UGA, The official Georgia Bulldog mascot. At the time, UGA IV was the reigning patriarch, and his brother Otto even filled in for a few games when UGA IV met with a mishap. (See UGA's Wikipedia entry here)

At the time, the two lots between our houses were undeveloped, but one of the lot owners had built a dock which we sorta kinda started using as if it were our own, and UGA IV and Otto were always hanging around, snorting and drooling and trying to get busy on my sister's leg. Looking back, it was pretty sweet to spend some time with them those long summer days, swimming in the creek, crabbing, having mud fights.

My first tintype

The tintype photograph is a unique process which saw its greatest use in the decades from 1860-1900. A liquid emulsion is coated onto a thin piece of black-enameled iron, exposed while still wet, then developed and varnished. The process was preferred by most portrait photographers because of its relative speed of production.

Today, I found this little "sixteenth plate" tintype at an estate sale, and paid exactly $2.39 for it. The "sixteenth plate" tintype is about the size of a postage stamp; a full plate would be about 6"x8" and would be rarely used by most commercial studios.

Except in the case of a re-photographed tintype, which would be very difficult at this small size, each tintype is a unique object, one of a kind.

Savannah and The Majestic Oak

Down in my hometown of Savannah, Georgia last week, high spring in Georgia, just as pure and beautiful as anything you'll ever see. My dad lives on the Isle of Hope just one block from the Isle of Hope river and marina. We managed to spend some time on the water, see the new Marc Jacobs store (Kristin very excited about that one), eat several meals at the new Sandfly BBQ, drink a few too many top-shelf margaritas with my oldest and dearest friend Will, and take several strolls along the glorious marshes of the Isle of Hope. Also worked on my project photographing sea gulls out at Lake Mayer and got some great new images for the series which now spans four years. I even snuck in a cigar, after hours, of course.

This is my dad's house:












The Majestic Oak is estimated to be over 300 years old. As big as live oaks get, you've probably never seen one quite like this, and the photograph does not do it justice. It took about seven crudely overlapped images to get this. If you look closely, you can see Walker and Tillman at the bottom left, for scale. Next time I'm down, I'll bring a Hasselblad Super-Wide and see if that works.

Flashes of Hope makes People Magazine - UPDATE

Just got the scoop from Flashes of Hope. People magazine has selected the images and has the story written and the package should be running sometime this month, with one of my Flashes of Hope portraits.

So, look for it soon.

Ribbon: The Art of Adornment

Here it is! You can also download the BLAD (industry lingo for "Book Layout and Design," which they use to pre-sell the book) by clicking here: Ribbon BLAD

Nicholas Kniel

Nicholas Kniel was in the studio today. After reviewing the final proofs for the Ribbon Book, we spent a few hours creating some unique images of Nicholas for his marketing campaign.

The book is a real knock-out, wildly exceeding my expectations. The layout and design is top-notch, too. I expect to have the final version of the cover and table of contents to post here soon. Sweet!

Chubb-Chubb

Calder is now two months old, and tipping the scales at a svelte 16 pounds! He has earned his nickname of Chubb-Chubb.