Tuesday, September 29, 2009

2010 Senior Portrait Scholarship Winners

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2010 Senior Portrait Scholarships. We had a large number of applicants and narrowing down to these four was quite difficult. Thanks to all of the students, parents and counselors who participated.

This year's Senior Portrait Scholarship winners are:

Ashley Staton-Granby HS
Joneiqua Gary-Booker T Washington HS
Kanish Amin-Booker T Washington HS
Kapria Lee-Oscar Smith HS

The winners will be contacted by phone and/or by mail with further details

Sunday, May 10, 2009

SEPPA Blue Ribbon


Here's another digital painting. This one, entitled, "Brown Eye'd Girl" recently won a blue ribbon at SEPPA.

Irish Pub


If I could I would paint all day long. Here Mo & O'Malleys in downtown Norfolk.

Painting Around Town


Norfolk is filled with great Art Deco Buildings. They make great digital oil paintings.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Blue Ribbon Bride


One of the hardest categories to achieve a blue ribbon in is the bridal portrait category. This winning image, entitled You'd Better Marry Me! features a delightful recent bride; Minna. The range of portraits from this sitting show the benefit of our constant motion style of posing. A few minutes into a photo shoot and this bride found her inner supermodel. This image is sassy. Others were elegant, fun, dramatic or sweet- because Minna was comfortable enough to unveil the many facets of her personality. Carrie and I always brag about being able to capture the "real you" in our portraits. Even when polished and posed, your personality truly comes to the forefront. It makes or breaks the moment we immortalize.

Another Blue Ribbon


One of favorite things to photograph are waterlilies. They make lovely photographs and terrific painting subjects. This image also received a national merit last year at the PPA International Print Competition.

Blue Ribbon Prints




It is state convention here in VA. I had several prints win blue ribbons. The first was a project for my children which was shot on the streets of Raleigh, NC entitled City Blocks