This famous swami came to Buford to teach yoga classes for two days.

His Holiness Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda leads a yoga/meditation session at Bogan Park Wednesday night. Maheshwarananda led the class in yoga and meditation from his platform at the front of the room.

Portrait session at Buford High School this afternoon.

Buford’s Andraya Carter is a rising star and one of the top freshmen in Georgia. The point guard already has offers from several Division I programs.

Earlier in the month we were doing a story about flight lessons and while I was up in the air with the writer I shot a ton of aerial shots.

Lake Lanier while flying over Buford, Ga. in early February.

Valentines Day struck in full force yesterday claiming another casualty in Waffle House.  The institution known for its waffles and 24 hour, 7 day a week operating schedule decided to branch out and provide candle-lit dinners for daring and adoring patrons.
Unfortunately the first reservation was not until 6 p.m. and my assignment was at 4 [...]

Another food photo, this time from Red Sky Cafe in Buford.  Used window light exclusively for this one.

The Reuben.

I shot these portraits of Buford basketball player Blanche Alverson back in early November when I was doing Super 6 stuff.

I wanted to go with a different look than most of the portraits we run so I played around with this a bit to see if selective desaturation would make it more interesting.  After a [...]

This is the second installment of my yearly retrospective of the photos I’ve taken.  Yesterday I featured illustrations I’ve shot and today I am featuring pictorials.
A pictorial is a photo that emphasizes graphics.  Think shape, color, form, lines, repetition.

Honorable Mention: Taken during a full moon in early June.  Photo would have made the cut if [...]

Welcome to the first installment of my Photos of the year: 2008 Edition posts.  This one is dedicated to illustrations.  Illustrations are staged photos that show a product (usually food), idea, or issue.
The top photo gets my honorable mention while the ones below the jump are the top 5.

Honorable Mention: A shrimp cocktail at Bottom [...]

Shot a restaurant called Rico’s World Kitchen in Buford earlier this week.  It’s a small little place near the mall of Georgia, but the style of restaurant the owners were going for is awesome.
They basically want to provide high style food for pretty reasonable prices, sub $10 per item basically.
They brought out a bunch of [...]

Today one of my assignments was to shoot a portrait of the entire Buford High School offensive line.  I liked this first photo more, but so I filed it when I got back to the paper.  I got a call as I was on my way to the second assignment saying they needed the second [...]