More family portraits

Mother's day was an excellent opportunity to take some portraits of my nieces and nephews running around at my parent's house. I then gave the portraits to my mom for her mother's day gift. Portraits of kids and grand kids is always something a mother loves.

Chloe

Grabbed some shots of my niece Chloe. Kids with this much personality are fun to photograph. :) Her parents will really dig these.

JAlbum

Just discovered a really simple but elegant online album service called Jalbum. It's completely free and there are no ads. Very simple to create and post albums - just chose your skin and drag and drop your desired photos. It takes just a few minutes and the albums look very nice. Here's my first one: http://mikeharris7.jalbum.net/Automotive/

Riding on a Ghost Train

A while back a gallery asked me to display this image in their gallery. When I delivered the print they asked me to sign it...and to title it. I don't usually title my pictures and was kind of stuck for a second. The owner suggested 'Train of Fools' due to the clown. I thought about it but I didn't like how it suggested everyone on the train was a 'fool'. Even the clown didn't seem 'foolish' - he was more of a 'guide' leading the train on a surreal journey. Today I was listening to a song by Marc Cohen called 'Riding on a Ghost Train'. I like that better. If anyone has any ideas I'm all ears. :)

The Lonestar Round Up Car Show

Alright, as promised I'm posting some pics from the car show. It was a lot of fun - there were too many cars to shoot. I didn't have enough daylight to shoot them all - or even come close. Afterwards my friend Paul invited me to the party at the Austin Speed Shop. Grabbed a lot of really awesome pics there too. I'm still working on editing them all, but here's a few I really liked. You can see all of them at http://harrisphotography.zenfolio.com/p1058355619

Loved this 39 Ford

This is from The Paladin's set. Great music at the Speed Shop party!

Switching gears

I'm going to spend this weekend 'switching gears' from my usual wedding routine. One of the biggest car shows in the country is going on at the Travis Country Expo. The Lonestar Roundup draws thousands of the hottest of the hot rods around the country. The paint jobs on some of these cars cost more than my house (I kid you not). It's eye candy galore and they are a complete blast to photograph. I'll post some here when I get done. Stay tuned!

What the customers want...

I came home to a pleasant surprise today. One of my wedding customers placed a rather large print order. What I love about print orders is looking at them and seeing what images the customer liked. Here are some of the images they ordered from Randy and Carolyn's wedding.