Ryan and Meghan got hitched on September 10th 2011 at this wonderful little throwback community near Frankfort Michigan.  A small but powerful number of guests were on hand to show support for this outstanding couple!

Enjoy!

The Emerald Isle coming back from a trip to Beaver Island.

A couple enjoys an evening underneath the Charlevoix Light House.

Nothing but pure joy and lifetime memories for these three youngsters.

Mega Sky Fish 

is Randall Erno' brain child.

Originally a one man band/loop station act, Randy has added members for a few local shows, and hit me up about putting together a music video.

Edited completely on the new interface of Final Cut Pro X,which turned out to be quite the learning experience!

Enjoy!

I've lived in Charlevoix for 21 out of my 25 years of life.

Every year our quiet little town goes through two major mood swings;

1. in the winter when the streets seem empty

2. in the summer when our population sky rockets

The Annual Venetian Festival is much to thank for Charlevoix' influx in tourism,

good music and fun times.

Here are some of my favorite photo's from this years Venetian Festival.

David nail pulled in a full house during his performance at the 2011 Charlevoix Venetian Festival!

The sunset was one to remember thousands watch from their seats, apartments, boats or just while passing through town!

Think Floyd U.S.A was amazing! 

This is just after Think Floyd got done with their set.

Everyone one was either rushing in there cars to try and miss traffic or taking their time lounging in the park watching fireworks.  The Venetian Festival is world renown for its fireworks display, ironically the fireworks on the left hand side of this photo are from a citizens house, ahahaha.  

Along with the Music, Food and Good Times comes the Carnival!

I thought the contrasts in light made for an awesome frame!

Performer David Nail pulled in an energetic crowd on Country night!

Think Floyd with the Re-Max building in the background.

The Roots Rock Society!

These dudes jam!

I"ve had the best experience working with the St.Mary's School in Charlevoix!

The one thing that has really shown through after looking over all the footage, is how 

much the parents really believe in the school.

The original plan was to produce one promotional web video, but there was so much more

substance left in the interview footage, that we couldn't let it go unused.

Here are the 3 Parent Testimonial Webcasts that came from the extra footage.

June 24th and 25th of 2011 I had the honor of being the lead photographer and videographer for the Bay Harbor Vintage Car and Boat Show.

I contracted out to shoot two days of photo and video for the Bay Harbor Foundation, with an end goal being a full promotional video, and enough photographs to satisfy their promotional print needs for the next season or two.

I will admit, I was, a bit nervous. 

To be shooting all the media for an event, photography and videography,  is a pretty big task.

Lucky for me my wife Bre is an excellent shooter willing to lend a helping hand when need be!

Here are some images straight from the red carpet of todays car and boat show, mostly my favorites, so keep your eyes open as more are on their way.

This is quite possibly my favorite shot from the whole Red Carpet Parade.

It just looks timeless!

This is my favorite car from the entire show, check out the mobbed out hot rod!

It's amazing to see the people you grew up with starting families and living life!

This week I had the pleasure of gifting an infant photo session to my long time friend Kyle Winstone and his wonderful (soon to be wife) Rachel.  

Almost two weeks ago, after 10 months of anticipation, Kyle and Rachel brought a beautiful and healthy baby boy in to this world! Korbin Lee Winstone !  It was awesome to meet Korbin the other day as well as his 7 year old sister Paris.  It's really is great to watch your childhood friends grow in to loving and caring adults.  Kyle is a lucky man to have such a great family and he's going to make one fantastic father!

So.......

Meet Korbin Lee Winstone

For the last few weeks I have been working closely with the staff at St.Mary's Catholic School in Charlevoix Michigan. I am not really an organized religion type of person, and thought that I might be getting in over my head!  Needless to say I had an awesome time filming in and around the school, watching the kids run, play and have fun.  What I learned is that you should never judge a book by its cover.

Enjoy!