Ladies and Gentlemen,
I would like to say that I do appreciate your support. That being said, I believe it is time to say this.
Stream It
The film poster of Stream It, starring Brian Luedtke and Cole Kiker.
When it comes to the streamline of making a short film, I realized that it takes a lot of help in order for a film to be successful. I also learned that it takes a community to help you grow as a person because you can’t go through life doing everything by yourself. I was honored to document the behind the scenes making of John Houzer’s short film, “Stream It.” John is a Video Producer, Editor, Graphic Designer, and Videographer based in Columbus, GA.
Local Lives Columbus GA Public Library-Christian Ortiz
The Columbus Ga Public Library host Local Lives that highlights local people and their businesses. Christian Ortiz is a professional photographer, musician and is the founder of Our City of Fountains, which documents local residents’ life experiences.
Jeremi Un-Til | Creative Portrait Session in Columbus GA
Greetings All,
I hope you are doing well today. I will try something different this time. I will go into a Behind the scenes look at a branding photo session I did a while back.
Nova She Wrote | Circa Craft Cocktails, Columbus, GA
Greetings All,
Hope everyone is doing well on this Sunday. I meant to do a post about this young lady a while back, however, at the time, I was dealing with something personal at the time which didn’t allow me to write about her.
Anyway I believe this is the appropriate time to speak about her.
Meet Syenovia Lesesne.
Syenovia is an Author 📚, Encourager 🖤, Positive Content Pusher🤲🏽, and also known as the girl behind the sticky notes. She’s a mother of two wonderful children, a bank professional, and a beautiful soul with her fair share of life experiences. She reached out to me earlier in the year to setup a photo shoot. It turns out she was also doing book launch in March. I figure it would be a great time to meet and support her during her endeavor. I also happen to capture a few images of her book launch. It also turns out she’s quite a down to earth and sweet individual. It was a awesome experience to be apart of her book launch. It was also a pleasure to meet her. I hope that I am afforded the opportunity to see and photograph her again in the future.
Please enjoy the images I capture of her during her book launch, check out her official website and follow her on Instagram.
Official Website: www.novashewrote.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nova_she_wrote/
Mr. & Mrs. Grissett's Baby Shower
Greetings All,
Hope you are doing well for your Friday. I must say on this particular day, I reflected on a day 6 years ago, when I did my first baby shower. I haven’t done a baby shower photo session since. About a month or two ago, Mrs. Grissett contacted me in regards to photographing her baby shower. I was quite honored that she and Mr. Grissett chose me to photograph their baby shower considering that I haven’t photographed a baby shower in 6 years. As it turns out, the experience of being around a family who’s welcoming, fun to be around, and to discover the gender of their first child was quite an amazing time. The family members wore the colors blue to represent a boy or pink to represent a girl.
Mr. & Mrs. Grissett will be welcoming a baby boy on September 11.
Below are the images of this awesome day. I hope you all enjoy them and the weekend ahead.
A new life means being able to pass on your legacy to your children. We must be able to teach and show them the errors of our ways and guide them down this path in life.
Please click on the photo for best quality.
The Columbus Collective Pop-Up Exhibition
The Columbus Collective is an assemblage of up and coming local artists that have created the perfect opportunity to connect over some less conventional ideas in promoting the arts. This site-specific exhibition is presented in an unorthodox space.
Words
Greetings All,
I hope everyone is doing well mind, body, and soul. Today is a good day to keep speak on “Words”.
Words are powerful.
They can fuel us with knowledge or weaken our spirits. Our tongues are as sharp as a sword. We have to know when and when not to cut people with it.
Our words can lead people into a path of righteous or lead them astray.
We have to be sure of what to say and how we are saying our words too people, because the last thing we want to do whether it be intentional or not is to lead people down the wrong path with our words.
We must be extremely careful of what we say to people on social media as well. We can say all day, oh it’s just words behind a screen, they don’t have a meaning or emotion behind them. Well that can be true for some people, however, others may not take it lightly, perhaps take offense to our words or hurt them.
In closing, we have to think about what we are going to say before we say it. You never know what you say will either uplift or lead someone astray.
Our words can either feed someone positive thoughts to get through the day or negative energy that can hinder someone.
Uplifting Black Women Over 40
Turning 40 is a milestone in life. It’s a point in one’s life that they have to begin to put away childish things and close the book on old chapters in their lives. For black women, it should be a time to celebrate and begin a new journey in life. As they say, “40 is the new 20.” We see black celebrities over 40 all the time. Today is a day where I showcase everyday black women, our unsung women of power. They are the Real Jewels of Royalty. What better way to celebrate this milestone and to show people that I truly appreciate you all?
The images that you see are beautiful black women that’s at least 40 years of wisdom and up. These are various women I’ve photographed over the past few years in my journey (Please click on the photo for best quality).
I have learned a lot from these ladies. I am also inspired to take this blog entry into a different direction:
Today I am starting a Photo Series for Black Women over 40 entitled:
Afroazure
The goal is to show that women over 40 are just as vibrant, beautiful, and age like fine wine. The saying goes that Black don’t crack. I want to be able to show black women in a positive light in a series of powerful portraits/showing off their personalities. Black women are the trendsetters and every other woman on the planet wants your body, hair, etc. We are unique people and you are beautiful black women. We are perhaps the most imitated people in the world. The end game is to show off black women's uniqueness and print out the best photo or two and be able to share it in a gallery one day. You do not have to be a model. I ask that you block out at least 1-2 hrs of your time for the session. We can conduct the session indoor or outdoor. Make sure you are prepared to shine and show off your beautiful spirit.
If you are interested in partaking in this campaign, please feel free to email me. In addition, you will receive 10 photos from the shoot for participating.
In Closing, We need to continue to always strive to help and uplift each other daily. When you see a woman of color over 40, please inform her that you appreciate her.
Nellwyn
Good Afternoon All,
Hope all is well. Today is going to focus on the images from a shoot I did sometime ago with Nellwyn. I hope you all enjoy.
