This is a major deviation from what I normally post on my blog, but there is a very good reason. As a wedding photographer the most important piece of gear I have is me. I have to take care of me or I can’t do what I need to do.  On a busy wedding day […]

When my son’s pre-k (what they call pre-kindergarten here in the states) teacher asked for a recent family photo I knew we had to do one up the one from last year. View fullsize The 2013 Futrell family photo. I sat down with my sketch book and created 4 or 5 really awesome concepts that […]

Here we spend our weekends photographing weddings and our weeks processing photos, meeting with vendors, clients and sometimes each other. We work pretty crazy hours… and we don’t take days off…. we “work” a lot… even today, which is Labor Day here in the US. I had to look up the origins of Labor Day […]

View fullsize Anne’s Beach, Islamorada, Florida If you have been to Anne’s Beach in Islamorada then you have seen this beautiful tree. Every time I see it, even when just driving by) it makes me happy to know that with all of the changes in the world this one thing gets more and more beautiful.