This weekend we had the honor of photographing the 67th Anniversary of the Joint Base Charleston Air Force Ball. It was such a pleasure to serve our men and women in uniform, who serve our country with their lives! Many thanks to Cami and my friends Gary, Amy, Mary, and Stan for all your help and dedication in making it all possible.
One of my favorite corporate clients, Dixon Hughes Goodman, is re-doing all their head-shots and promotional material. Their marketing department came up with a really cool concept. It was up to me to make it happen!
Unfortunately, they’ve grown so big they didn’t have any place in their office for this elaborate a setup. So we set up just down the road in an empty 2nd floor of an office building that hasn’t been leased yet! Yup, you heard that right! I’m photographing company executives in an empty, un-finished building with no outlets…and I have to make it look good!!!
I love a good challenge. So armed with a Nikon D4, 70-200 f2.8, Lenovo laptop, six SB-800 flashes, 2 SB-910 flashes, Westcott soft boxes and umbrellas, a Savage TV gray background, and a host of Manfrotto stands and supports…we got it done! It was actually kind of cool. It was so fun to see everyones expressions when they first walked in the space. We all had a blast, and came up with some great shots!!!
Many thanks to Wendy for all her hard work, and for everyone being so easy to work with!
Yesterday evening I was “on walkabout” doing an Engagement photo shoot with one of my favorite couples EVER! We were just walking along, having a blast, and getting some cool shots…when suddenly on the other side of an old brick wall I could hear a camera clicking away. I peeked around the corner and who should I see by my good friend and fellow photographer, Nathan Bell of Richard Bell Photography! Nathan’s a great guy with a wonderful sense of humor…so we both immediately went into mock horror mode…like “hey man, what are YOU doing in MY shooting space?!?” Then we busted out laughing and introduced our couple to each other, and chit chatted for a few minutes before carrying on our separate ways. But before Nathan could get out of sight, I enticed his couple into this zany pose with him. It’s always fun bumping into friends while out shooting. J
“Hi Chris,
I have been meaning to catch up with you! I hope you and Cami are doing well, it seems like you two have been traveling a lot based on your wonderful pictures!
I wanted to let you know that Mr. Nixon (Mindy Nixon’s father, now Parker) passed away Thanksgiving morning. They had a quick funeral for him in Florida where the Nixon’s now live, but last month they had a memorial service for him and Aaron and I made the drive up to Virginia Beach (where we are from) to attend the service.
They did a slide show of memories past and present and they had the wonderful photo that you took of him right before the Ceremony, in the slide show. Aaron loved loved loved that picture of Mr. Nixon (Mr. Nixon was like a second father to Aaron) so I just wanted to thank you for capturing the great moments that we don’t sometimes realize are "great" moments until we need something to hold on to as far a memory or a smile.
Thank you again for your talent and sharing it with us.”
– Kelly (and Aaron)
