It has been a been a long few weeks of clearing stuff out of the nursery, pulling carpet, patching walls, painting, buying furniture, hauling stuff to storage, carpeting, picking up furniture, assembling a crib, and arranging it all in a tiny little room. Here are some pics of the progress. Starting with the room as we started (minus the carpet) moving through the steps above… then a few of the furniture separately.

Almost forgot to mention… the cute crib stuff (sheet… not pictured, skirt and quilt) were all gifts from Erin’s kindergarten class at the end of the year.

This is a fun thing to blog about! I got a call back at the end of the summer last year from a photo editor asking about Chattanooga landmark photography for a book he was working on. It was titled Chattanooga, The Renaissance of a City. After some back and forth and a lot of shooting this and that and proofing blah blah blah… the book was published earlier this month and is available on Amazon for sale. LINK to Amazon listing.

Anyway I have about 14 or so pictures in the book and then the bottom picture on the cover is mine as well. It is the first time that one has been published anywhere and the first time it has even been printed for that matter :)

Hey Guys… I blogged about this earlier but I just found an easy way to get the whole thing into your hands if you want to read the article or print it out and frame it or whatever ;)

Rewind a year or so. I got a call from someone working on the US Airways magazine… the art director or something. Told me they were doing a profile about Chattanooga in the August 2007 edition and they needed some shots of local scenes. I did a few shots for them and they were debating on using one for the opening spread but as it turned out they used one of my sunset shots from downtown in one of the spreads. Anyway they send me two hard copies and I never got around to scanning them to put up in pdf but I just found them on THEIR WEBSITE so I thought I would repost about this. Here is the link directly to the PDF from THEIR SITE and if that link doesnt work I have a copy on MY SITE as well.

This is probably the biggest publication I have been in so far. I am going to post a couple more that I have been in too but this is the big one so far.

Just so you don’t think I am kidding ;) This is a scan of our ultrasound pics from this afternoon.

Baby Stats:
heart rate: 158bpm
length: around 7cm
due date: Oct. 6th

I have decided to enter a few images into a photo contest specifically for wedding photography. It is a juried competition judged by some of the best in the biz. I am going to post another entry with the option for you to vote on your favorites as to which I should submit too.

For you photographers who don’t know about this competition yet there are mulitple cash prizes so you should definitely check it out. HERE is a link to their site or you can click on the image below to enter some pics of your own.