Hello friends! It’s been way too long since I have posted. This semester finds me finishing up my coursework as a second year doctoral student. I’ve been to Toronto and back, presenting a poster at an academic conference, to the doctor’s a few too many times (both here and in Canada) with a strained back; Matthew’s rocking it in kindergarten and made out like a bandit for Valentine’s Day; Lindsey turned 3 over the Christmas holidays and is already asking about when her next birthday is. I redid the site a smidge – I am never too happy for too long, am I? But wow, did Jessica Ditmer do a nice job or what on that gingko tree up top! Friends of mine from JMU will understand why I love the gingko tree – and for those in Harrisonburg, outside of Ashby Hall is a tree dedicated to a dear friend.
Anyway, onto 2012! Finishing up coursework, hope to take summer and fall semester to do preliminary exam preparation. It’s in this vein of change and life that a new year brings lots of retrospection.
From this time forward, all new bookings will be shot with the express intent of creating black and white images. I shoot in color, so I can use as full range of colors as possible, but process the images to the rich blacks and crisp whites I so love to see. So there it is. From time to time I am sure a color shot will seep through, and who knows – maybe next year I’ll change again. “But Casey, won’t most of the people who would hire you not WANT to hire you if you’re only going to shoot black and white?”
Maybe. I’m sure.
But this is what I love. Because of my academics, my family, my self, I need to do what’s best for all of us, and that means when I do take the time out to have a shoot, it should be doing what I love to do. And I encourage everyone out there – do just that – hire someone who loves to do what they do and you will be happy with the images s/he takes, and it will be worth the time and money to capture those moments in your life that matter.
So any new bookings from here on out will be strictly black and white images. If we’ve already got a session scheduled, I will of course still shoot and process lovely colorized images for you (and maybe convert some to make my heart (and hopefully yours!) go pitter-patter).
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In the midst of the flurries of the spring semester (and by flurries, I mean “WOW it’s busy on campus” vs. “oh hey look, is that snow?” because, really, when is it ever snow in Florida?), I snuck out one afternoon around sunset to the J.R. Alford Greenway down on Pedrick Road. It was my first time out there and – dear Tallahassee – WHY haven’t you told me about how beautiful this place is at sunset? We took some pictures on the field and then wandered off the path near the water and got some lovely captures there. Be still my heart.
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The two images above are just beautiful!
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