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Here’s a quick snapshot from a senior portrait session that I held this weekend out & about in Detroit with Allyson Lloyd. My session with Allyson was great & moved rather quickly because I am finding my groove with moving locations quicker & dealing with fewer changes (I had to switch my packaging/change options up […]

This morning I had the chance to meet little Madisyn Skye for a newborn shoot. Isn’t she precious? Madisyn’s parents were the winners of one of my newborn photo sessions that I gave away last month. Madisyn was a fun challenge to photo & I learned a few things from her like: When dealing with […]

Well today was my big Adobe Lightroom presentation at the Ann Arbor Flash user group “Flash Focused” My presentation was focused on some of the key features of Lightroom & my own workflow. I had been going back & forth over how I was going to pull it all together for over a week but […]

I fucking love this sing!!!! If you’ve never heard it & have the new Erykah Badu release then”Arrow Through Me” should sound familiar. Hint: “Gone Baby, Don’t Be Long” Erykay Badu got the clearance to use a sample of this songs shortly before her album; New Amerykah Part 2: Return of the Ankh was released […]

Here’s a quick snapshot from a senior portrait session that I held this weekend in my studio space with Laureal Hamilton-Jackson. Laureal is currently a graduating senior from Detroit’s Cass Technical high school & she will be a freshman this fall at Michigan State University. Our session was fun filled as we mostly laughed our […]

Today I covered a baby shower for Tremaine & Londone Moulds. The shower was quite large, filled with a lot of love, laughs & GREAT cake! Londone is expected to deliver in June 8th but baby boy Trenton Moulds gives me the impression that he may not wait that long. Can’t wait to meet the […]

Guess who was recently interviewed by the Kiss My Black Ads blog. Me mofo! Check it out here! In other good news: – One of my head shot clients just informed me that she got called for an HBO show audition! I love making people look great! – I’m doing my first shoot in my […]

In the last year the Getty Flickr collection has encountered some major growth in terms of number of contributors & image content. I see this growth as a good & bad situation. It’s good when my monthly royalty checks are deposited & bad when I have to wait for months to have newly submitted images […]

This evening I visited the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History for the Black Women Rock event, which was hosted by Detroit’s foxy poet Jessica Care Moore. While enjoying the sites & sounds, I snapped a few images of FluxPhonic during their 1st performance. You may recall me photographing Fluxphonic’s promo shots a […]