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. 

View fullsize That is me… out on a ledge 2 miles up.  My buddy Scott brought me out to Colorado for a beautiful wedding in Denver. While there, he showed me his favorite spots including this lookout up at Mount Evans. 

View fullsize Last month my son came into my office wearing his dinosaur costume and I asked him if I could take his picture. I had this idea of making him stomp around a city skyline ala Godzilla and grabbed these frames –  I spent a couple of hours creating this image – I hated […]

I recently shared an image on Facebook that got a lot of love so I thought I give some behind the scenes as to how the image came together.  Last week I was at the Mission. A crazy rainstorm had just blown through town and I was waiting for one of my amazing couples to arrive […]

I am, primarily, a wedding photographer. On average, I spend about 60 hours a week planning, photographing and processing wedding photographs. I really have to limit the other types of photography projects that I get involved with because I simply don’t have the time… one of those side projects I can’t wait for is Holiday […]

Well. we will be using the term ‘teach’ very loosely today. A couple of months ago my best friend and award winning designer Bryant called me up and told me about this poster he was working on. He had a concept and some illustrations that he had created but was having some trouble with one piece […]

This week we hop into the “WAY BACK” machine all the way back to 2008. This is a great look not just at the changes I have made to the bike over the years but also the changes in my photography.  Here is a photo that I took in the same spot of the same […]