Mohawk Photography Blog

Sorry for the lack of  posting but I have been uploading pictures for the last 4 weeks.  I finally finished this morning with the last straggler.  I apologize to all of the people who have been waiting patiently for their pictures.  I have had some terrible connection problems the last couple of weeks.  On top of that my sister is in the hospital.  It was looking not so good over the weekend but things seem to be improving slowly.  Now that I have a minute to breath and look over the Dance Out pictures I will try to get some cool ones posted in the next couple of days.  Farewell until then..

Emma Monday first thing: “I need clothes”

I thought it was so cute that she wrapped herself in a hand towel I had to share.

Here is my friends’ son Wesley.  He’s just over three months here.

He had his bath time while I was over and wanted to show off his cool towel.

My couples workshop editing was delayed again because of Dance Out the dance competition I shoot the action shots for.  I was scrambling last week to get everything together for the weekend.  Then the weekend started on Friday night and finally finished up about 9 Sunday night.  I spent yesterday recovering and filling orders.  Got some cool shots I’ll put up in a couple of days.  Farewell until then..

I have been promising dance pics for a while now.  Now I’m ready to deliver.  These are pictures from my kids’ showcase.  It is a performance of all of the dances that the studio is competing for the year.  If you have ever been involved with competitive dance it is nice to have them all preformed in one three hour slot rather than over a three day weekend.  I’m fortunate enough to actually enjoy a break for showcase because I get to watch with the rest of the crowd instead of from the side of the stage.  It is the one time the kids preform that I get to take off the stage hand hat at kind of watch.  It’s rather hard to watch a show with a camera jammed to your eye the whole time.  Well that’s enough rambling from the peanut gallery on with the show. 

Here is Nate.  I’ve known him for a few years and was looking forward to going on this shoot for a few months now.  The weather held off long enough for us to have a fun afternoon driving around downtown.  We got a few looks carrying a surfboard through Union Station but it was definitely worth the walk.  So without any further to-do here he is.

Now about those dance pictures and couples pictures you’ve been promised.  Umm.. they are in the works.  I finally got through all of the dance pictures then it took me three days to load them for the dance moms.  I have no excuses but procrastination on the couples.  In addition to those two sets I have to show, I also did a shoot for my friends son Wesly.  He  is now three months old.  I might throw in a couple of his newborn shots also.  So thats it I better go get to work.

So I’ve been a terrible blogger lately.  I guess to be a good blogger I need to keep posting my latest and greatest adventures.  So here goes.  

My latest adventure was Shoot Day 2 with Kelley and Josh.  This go round we had the pleasure of shooting couples.  I’ve been busy and haven’t editing the files but I have launched myself into them and should be done shortly.  Here is a sneek peek at Ashley and her fiance.  

Nice.  I think so.  Thanks to the guys at the tattoo shop for having a bar-b out in such a handy location.  I have plenty more to come of these two plus some awesome shots of Jordan and her man Richard.  

As for the insane number of dance photos I had to sift through.   I am about 60% finished with my run through.  I will definitely get an update out the beginning of next week.  My kids have a dance competition all weekend thats why no weekend post.   

Later days,

Patrick

OK I figured out my picture problems.  Here are some pictures from the shoot with my niece and crew

So Cute

Here are the announcements 

Over last weekend I got the chance to take some more pictures of the kid’s dance team at their showcase.  Heres a preview

I really enjoy seeing what I get in the pictures but the downer is that I don’t really get to watch the performances.  Kind of ironic I know, but chasing dancers across the stage with the lens is not the same as watching the dance.  It’s a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, well not so much blood as sweat and tears, you try holding a 10 lb camera to your eye for 4 hours, but the ends justify the means in this case.  All of the dances are really talented and fun to capture on “film.” It is going to take me a while to get through all 8000+ pictures but when the mountain has been climbed I will get some posted.

I had the opportunity to take my niece’s pictures and conjure up an announcement or two.  It was an interesting shoot.  All of the previous time I had seen her you could have driven a Mac truck right next to her and she would not have twitched.  But of course you put lights and a camera in the room and she felt the need to be a little uncooperative.  That was not the first time it has happened to me and it will not be the last.  

So I just waved my magical wand, “patience,” and we were able to came up with some great shots for the announcements.  As soon as iI can figure out what is wrong with my file uploader for this blog stuff you will be able to see them too.  Needless to say I am not happy about spending half a day trying to figure out the problem and getting no where.

On a different tangent I am attending another shoot day with Kelley and Josh in the river market tomorrow.  I’m not sure what decade we will be walking into but instead of individuals we are going to be photographing couples.

 Now that I have gotten my bearings let me share with you some of my recent adventures. Here are some of images from Kelley and Josh’s workshop that I attended last Wednesday. We had Jessica, in the yellow, and Kristin, the only other choice, modeling their inner 80’s for us.  I had an awesome time and would recommend their workshops, they are planning future excursions, to anyone interested in a laid back good time with your peers.  Well enough talk on with the show…

Starting with my personal favorite.

Yes we played in the street but fortunately for us mom wasn’t there to yell. We did get a lot of stares from the cars driving around us though.

Well that was the show.  Hopefully these all look good. I’m still riding the learning curve. Well while I work out the ever present kinks I will try to keep up with this blogging regularly.  Eventually I might just become the writer I never knew I could be, but I’m not keeping my hopes up.

  Well here it is. My first blog.  I feel all sorts of empowered and stuff now. Yet at the same time its is kinda of like walking into your great aunt’s basement, you never know what is going to happen.  It this going to be a earth shattering experience that become another out let for my creativity or is it going to be a exercise in staring at a blank box with a cursor flashing in the upper left corner.  Only time will tell.

  Anyway to get back to to purpose of things,  this is the blog for Mohawk Photography, mohawkphoto.com, my chosen profession.  As of right now I am in the process of figuring out how this whole blog thing works so bear with me.  The typing part is the easiest to figure out, look at me I’m a pro two paragraphs. For my next feet of amazement I will attempt to post pictures, starting with the shoot day Kelley and Josh put together for all of u aspiring photographers.  One day soon, hopefully I will learn how to insert the links so that you can see their amazing work too.  

  Well I think that that is it for now.  Hopefully there will be more coming soon.