Thanksgiving Farmer's Market Run - Final

The day before Thanksgiving will surely be a crazy day at the Dekalb Farmer's Market, but I need to get some wine. My favorite way to get there is on my bike, which I have outfitted with a milk crate to carry my purchases. One of the best things about riding a bike is that parking becomes a non issue - which at this time of year at the Market is a total pain. Also, riding a bike forces me to use a basket instead of a shopping cart thus making it much easier to move about inside among the crowds of people using carts. Sometimes it is literally a gridlock of carts not moving.

So, if you live fairly close to the Market as I do - consider riding your bike - it is an all around better experience for your body and mind.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Metropolitan Home Magazine Closes - Sad Day for Lovers of This Fine Shelter Mag

Recently I had the honor and pleasure to shoot a couple features for Met Home magazine. Both assignments were great to shoot- fast paced, creative and fun. Working with Linda O'Keefe from the magazine was a great experience and both shoots went well, but I am sad and disappointed to say that they will most likely not appear in print as Hachette Filipacchi the publisher has decided to close the magazine.

Thanks to G & G Architects the homeowners and architects of the last project for all their help and hospitality. Here is one of the shots from the story - hopefully it will get printed at some point.

Hopefully soon this economy which has been devastating to all shelter magazines and forced several great publications to fold will heal itself.

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.