Hi everyone-

I hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was busy but a lot of fun. I had a booth at the Yorkfest Arts Festival in York, PA this weekend.

The weekend didn't start off to great as there were torrential downpours on Friday night (set up day) and a misty, gray and humid start to Saturday.

But Sunday was absolutely beautiful. THe weather was perfect and the crowd was much larger than in past years.

So I wanted to share a few shots from my booth. You can't really see it to well but you get the idea. At the end is a short video of the booth as well.

I also would like to take a moment to thank everyone who came out to the show to say or purchase something from me. I met a lot of great people as well as reconnected to a few people I have met in previous years. That is one of the most fun parts of doing this show!

Have a great day!

HI everyone-

Hope you had a great week! Starting tomorrow at 10AM the Yorkfest Arts Festival gets underway along the York County Heritage Rail Trail in downtown York. I'd like to invite you all to attend!

It's rain or shine and it looks like we have the chance to get a little wet tomorrow. But not to worry there are a ton of great artists as well as food and entertainment.

This year I am located at KING STREET and the Rail Trail. This is a bit further down the trail from last years spot. I am on the creek side. Just look for the huge battling elk photograph and you'll find me!

Hope to see you there! If I don't have a great weekend!

Today's image was shot this past week and I love it. We had a slot of fun shooting these images and this was one of my favorites because it captured a great moment where we went from fun to shear terror and back to fun in less than 30 seconds. It also sums up how I feel while I rush around getting all the last minute details taken care of for the show this weekend.

Have a great day!

HI everyone-

Hope you had a great weekend. Ours was a nice slow paced few days with nothing pressing to accomplish. So we spent most of the time together as a family not doing a whole heck of a lot for a change.

One thing we did was take Cree up to meet my parents half way to their house. We had dinner and then she went home with them for a few days. She was super excited to go. Us on the other hand were happy she was so looking forward to it, as were nanny and bunk, but we were a little sad as she was like "Bye" in that OK its really time you let me go kinda way...lol

I guess we'll have years to deal with that...lol

So, today's post is another in my Aspen Dreams series of images. It was shot this past fall while in Grand Teton National Park.
I was looking through some of the images for this coming weekends Yorkfest Art Festival and I came upon some images of last fall and it really got me in the mood for this years trip.

I can only go so long then I yearn for the crisp bite of the fall morning, the clean air and skies and the sounds of elk bugling echoing through the valleys. I can not wait to get out there!!

Have a great day!

Hi everyone-

Hope you all had a great week.

Today starts my normal 4 days off from the fire department and boy am I happy they are here. There is a ton of stuff to get done for the show next week as well as stuff around the house. But The best part of this weekend is I am off the same days as Tonya so we get a whole weekend together. It will be great to have some good family time with no real place to go!

That doesn't happen that often.

So today's image is another installment of the Bison Art series that I started earlier in the week. This image was shot last fall in Yellowstone's Hayden Valley. One of the most beautiful places in the park and the country in my opinion.

The image was initially shot at a slow shutter speed while panning with the running buffalo.

Have a great weekend!!

Oh and don't forget the Yorkfest Arts Festival in downtown York, PA next weekend. (29,30 AUG) I hope to see you there!

Hi everyone-

Today's image also started out as a photograph and was then 'painted' in Photoshop.

I decided to try a tighter crop on part of the bison's head. It seems to have turned out pretty good.

This one was a bit tougher to create though because of the amount of dark detail. It was hard to see what had been painted and what was not. So in the end what I thought would be a quicker job ended up taking just as long as the other images had.

***ON ANOTHER NOTE***

For those of you close by the York, PA area next weekend August 29th and 30th I will be displaying and selling my work at the Yorkfest Arts Festival along the Codorus Creek in downtown York. I would love to see you stop by and say hi!!

Have a great day!