Metropolitan Home Shoot

Last week I shot a story for Metropolitan Home Magazine of a great house out on Lake Oconee - about an hour and a half East of Atlanta. The homeowners were also the architects and were wonderful to work with. Here is a shot of Linda O'Keefe from Met. Home and myself working on a shot of the rooftop patio.
Photo courtesy of my assistant Travis Dorn - www.dornbrothers.com

Arch. Digest Shoot in Jackson, MS

Last week I had the pleasure of shooting a story for Arch. Digest magazine in Jackson, MS featuring the work of Architect Ken Tate and Interior Designer Ann Holden. It was my second time on assignment with Ken and Ann for the magazine. These two make a great team and are really fun to work with. We did some beautiful shots of course - keep an eye out for them in an up coming issue!

Here is a shot Travis Dorn my assistant took as we work on the details of a shot of the loggia.

First Tomato

We just picked our first tomato of the season and look forward to enjoying it soon! Also, this is the same tomato as pictured in "Early Garden Growth" - a few posts back.

Arch. Digest July 2009 feature.

Check out the July 2009 issue of Arch. Digest with my story of a house in New Orleans by architect Ken Tate and interior design by Ann Holden. Ken and Ann were great to work with and helped tremendously on the shoot.

Metropolitan Home Shoot

Shot a couple days last week at a house here in Atlanta for Metropolitan Home. Here is a fun shot of Creative Director Linda O'Keefe peering through an opening in a very unique part of the house. Linda was great to work with - we got a lot of beautiful shots!

Early Garden Growth

Our garden is beginning to show some progress but still has a way to go obviously.
Here are some photos I took recently showing one of our Beefsteak tomato plants.

Tale of Toad Hall

I am pleased to announce that my feature of Toad Hall - personal residence of Sandy and Kreis Beall, owners of Blackberry Farm in Tennessee has come out in the June issue of Architectural Digest. I am including a link to view the online version of the story - please check it out! Below is a shot from the feature.

Here is the link -click here

Vegetable garden - day 1

Amy and I decided to build and plant a garden this year. We did some research and it seemed like building a raised bed was the way to go. There is so much information about gardens and such on the internet that it makes things like this go so much easier. Case in point is the bean trellis in the photo. I came across this on a garden site - www.meadowwoodgarden.com - it was super easy to build and amazingly inexpensive using some basic conduit pipe, a couple corner connectors and two "U" type fence posts to keep it sturdy. Then to finish it off, some 5x8' trellis netting which just happened to be the same size as the trellis I built.

The burlap rigged over the top was installed for protection of the new plantings as a strong storm was predicted to move through later in the evening - which it did and I am happy to report did not collapse!

Vegetables and herbs planted include - beans, yellow peppers, cherry tomatoes, zucchini and basil.

Coming Soon!

My feature story of "Toad Hall" - private residence of Kreis and Sandy Beall in the Blackberry Farm Community in Tennessee will be published in the June 2009 issue of Architectural Digest Magazine.

The project showcases the interior design of Suzanne Kasler. It was a pleasure working with her and homeowner Kreis Beall on the story.

Keep and eye out for it!

New Magazine Features Out

The new Beautiful Homes and Beautiful Kitchens magazines are out with three jobs I shot recently.

I have two in the Summer issue of Beautiful Homes and one in the Spring issue of Beautiful Kitchens.

Special thanks to Missie Crawford for styling and Lisa Mowry Field Editor on the two Beautiful Homes projects.

Special thanks also to Sandra Mohlmann Field Editor/Styling on the Beautiful Kitchens project.

Here are a few samples from the Beautiful Homes -








Here is a couple samples from the Beautiful Kitchens shoot -