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Cold Soldiers Movie Poster:

Michael Furlinger of the Terrace Theater introducing some of the movies for the opening night.

Nick and Trevor speaking before the opening of their film.

Sold out showing at the 7:30pm time block.

Two of the actors from the movie who also happen to be photographers here in Charleston, Sasha and Charlie.

My buddies Chris Smith and Charlie Thiel at the premiere.

This is a quick pic of owner Michael Furlinger (in the middle) with Keva and Karen Keys who had the short film, Letters from Home, right before Cold Soldiers opened.

Nick and Trevor beside their movie poster before going into the theater.

My good friend, Gordon King, who was one of the stunt drivers in the film.

Some of the cast of Cold Soldiers: R.W. Smith, Nick Smith, Charlie Thiel, Trevor Erickson, Tom, and Michael Easler.

This was the awesome truck that Force Protection brought out to the premiere. It’s the little baby brother, The Cougar 4×4, to the bigger Buffalo truck that was used in the Transformers movie.

Here’s some of the crew from Force Protection with Nick and Trevor.

The first teaser trailer that was created for the movie: Once I figure out this new blog upgrade to WordPress and how to embed some of the YouTube video trailers, I’ll update this post. Uggh!!!!

Talk about a big difference in the weather from when my other sis in-law graduated back in August. We went from super hot in the summertime to freezing cold in the winter! Not to mention it was raining and cold. Lindsay was a good sport about it and toughed it out for a few shots on the campus outside. (we were about the only crazy ones out there, umbrella’s and all….)   She didn’t have to many layers under her cap and gown while shooting and I think at one point she started to turn blue! Congratulations Lindsay on this big achievement and we’re all so happy about your new job that you start next week! Yay!!!

Her slideshow is below!

bed because you’re a year older than before. So besides having my

beautiful wife and son fix me breakfast this morning and get some gifts, I

got an email from an organization that I am a member of called ISPWP. It’s

the International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers. There are

photographers from all over the world who are members with  some

incredible talent to say the least! Each quarter they have a photo

competition between all the members and I thought I would submit a few

that I had. Since this is the first time I have ever entered anything like this, I

wasn’t expecting to much. To my surprise, I found out that I placed in the

Top 20 of my catagory, Venues and Locations. Wow! That’s so cool! I

totally wasn’t expecting that and what a nice birthday surprise to wake up

to!! I submitted a beautiful wedding that I shot at Cypress Gardens last year.

Heather and Matthew were married last November and at Cypress Gardens

they place the bride in a canoe and paddle her through the awesome cypress

trees to get out at a dock near the wedding site. It was such a fun wedding

and we got some great shots! Thanks to all my “Facebook” friends and folks

emailing me B-Day wishes! You guys are great and I love ya’ll! Here’s

another link to the site.

Our family portrait! I just had to put the “mullet” wig on Austin!

All the kiddies who came to the party! What a cute bunch!

Here’s our awesome little cowboy. I’ve been getting this “look” a good bit these days. Almost kinda like “ok dad, hurry up and take the picture…..”

Austin and his cousin Bryson digging through the pumpkin looking for more candy. Just what a 2 year olds need, more sugar to go crazy!

Austin having a grand ol’ time just a swingin’.

Now Leigh’s cousin, John K., is a chef here in town and of course he had to make some cool designs for the kids. Gotta love the watermelon brains and gummy worms. The other one that he made was cut in half and you opened it to scoop out watermelon balls to eat. That’s either really creative, or really disturbing depending on how you look at it…….

Well a few weeks ago we were at my wife’s most favorite place in the whole world to visit, Auburn University! ha! I know that if we didn’t live and have family in Charleston, she would so want to move to Auburn, Al in a second! So we went to my sister in-law Christie’s graduation ceremony on Aug. 10th. Now this girl has worked long and hard for this degree. After working in NY for Ralph Lauren designing children’s clothes and then getting married and having two children, this was a major accomplishment! I am so proud of her! Yay Christie!

Her cute little family! It was only like 95 degrees or something when this shot was taken! 

Now this was too funny not to post up. I didn’t even notice the girl standing behind Christie until I was processing all the images. There were probably a lot of college grads who will be looking for work like this girl.

I wanted to include a shot of the nose bleed seats that we had during the ceremony. As you can tell, I had to “reach” out a long ways with my lens to grab some shots!

Ok, so I have to do a little setup for you on this shot. Now this is the AU sign right in front of Samford Hall that is on campus. It’s probably the most photographed spot in all of Auburn. So there was a line of graduates all the way down the street waiting to have their shot with the sign and Samford Hall behind them.( About a full hours wait time.) Seeing how we only had a few minutes before Christie had to be seated inside, I thought I would make my own shot. So I’m standing in the median of the street with cars whizzing by me and people all over the place getting in my shot. I had my brother in law stand just a few feet down from her with my off camera flash to help throw some extra light. People who had been standing in line were giving us these weird looks as to what we were trying to do. What would have taken them (people standing in line) an hour to do, I grabbed in about 5 minutes! Oh yeah!

Here’s a quick little slideshow of some other pics. If you want to see all the images that are online, just click here.