Brad Barton Photography

OpLove Session: Lori

Brad — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:56:09 +0000

As many long time watchers of my blog know, I am involved with a couple charities where I donate photographic services. Of course, I talk about the Haunted House the most, but I also do work with Operation: Love ReUnited as well. This group hooks up photographers with families that have soldiers deployed overseas. They get a free photo session while their soldier is deployed and we, as the photographers, provide a small album sent directly to the soldier at their duty station. Its a little way of boosting morale for our troops.

This is one from one of my most recent sessions, Lori.

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Classic White Orchid

Brad — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:58:01 +0000

Pulling out an old favorite today so I can get it into the blog’s search engine. I shot this years ago when I was first experimenting with new studio lights and it has always been a favorite.

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Monsters of the Sand

Brad — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:10:09 +0000

I just added a new Gallery page here, but for those that only follow the blog, I wanted to touch on it here.

This new project was created at the beach during our trip last week. As I was looking at the various pieces of driftwood on the beach, I began to find faces and familiar shapes – so of course I began to photograph it. Here are a few of my favorites.

The Demon

Land Shark

Starship

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Coastal Vacation Part 3: The Rest

Brad — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:02:40 +0000

These are the images from my trip to the coast that didn’t seem to fit into the other categories.. but I still wanted to share.

This “sand castle” is a giant sculpture that makes up the side of a tourist gift shop that faces the main road through Corpus Christi and onto the Island.

This crab was having a great time sitting in the surf and shoveling things into his mouth every time a wave washed over him. He was about 4 or 5 inches across, so he was good size.

No, we didn’t really find a treasure chest.. we actually staged this for another purpose (more on that later).. but I liked this one.

A couple of sand dollars.. one broken, one not

Lastly, I put these three images together as a nice little triptych.. thought it worked really well in B&W.. there is a color version, too.. as well as the individual images.

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Coastal Vacation Part 2: Landscapes

Brad — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:01:54 +0000

I already posted the great sunset shot from early in the week last Friday, but here are a few others that I really enjoyed.

Even though I was on vacation, I did get up one morning to catch the sunrise over the Gulf of Mexico. Lost a contact on the beach, though.. that was no fun, but found a nice lady at the mall who helped get me a replacement right away.

Loved the way the sun was shining through this palm frond..

Enjoyed this great silhouette of a couple playing with their dog at sunset.

I pointed my camera at breaking waves a bunch of times over the week and captured this on one of the last days. Its a lot more challenging than it looks to get a great wave shot.

We had major fog for a day and a half of the trip, so I used it to my advantage capturing this image of the historic line camp inside the Padre Island National Seashore (a national park just south of where we stayed).

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Coastal Vacation Part 1: Wildlife

Brad — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:06:56 +0000

As you probably already know, my wife and I got a much needed vacation last week down to Corpus Christi, TX – North Padre Island to be exact. Of course, I take the camera everywhere and it was the perfect opportunity to add some art pieces with a coastal feel to the collection.

This is the first set of the best images from the trip.. the wildlife: birds and deer

Black Skimmer

Six Point Buck

Royal Tern

Brown Pelicans

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Padre Island Sunset

Brad — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:21:51 +0000

I am back from a much needed week long break in Corpus Christi, Texas. While there, I worked quite a bit at recharging my creative energies and I think I was pretty successful. There are some new ideas at hand.. and some modifications of some old ones.

In the meantime, enjoy this sunset shot on my trip..

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Deck Flower

Brad — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:06:53 +0000

I saw another photographer do a similar photo to this one a while back and decided I wanted to improve on it a little. I had the perfect deck to work on my Corpus Christi trip, so I gave it a shot…

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New Eagle Scout – David

Brad — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:58:22 +0000

I first met David’s parents on a contract job back in my programming days.. over the last 13 years, I’ve watched him and his brothers grow up. As an Eagle Scout myself, I was honored to write a recommendation letter for David when he was submitting his application for his. Next week, I’ll be honored again to be a part of his Eagle Scout Court of Honor where he will be officially awarded the badge.

For those that don’t know, Eagle Scout is a tremendous accomplishment and can only be achieved through years of hard work and planning. Along the way you learn not just scouting skills, but leadership, academic, and personal ones. Only the most dedicated make it to the end of that road.. and now David is among us.

He came into the studio this week for some portraits for his ceremony/invitations/announcements… this was an “outtake” of sorts.. he called it his “Facebook” face.. and he’s already set it as his avatar over there.

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Fruit and Fiber

Brad — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:08:17 +0000

Here’s a sneak preview of the next Greeting Card we’ll be adding. This will also be sold through KnittingFairy as a Get Well card.

The doctor said you needed more fruit and fiber in your diet…

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