Creation

I've really been enjoying, playing around with watercolours, as of late. I think taking a step back from photography and just being creative with anything, is a good healthy thing for an artist to do. I think you can sometimes get overwhelmed with your own craft and your pursuit of it, that you can forget to enjoy just the little things in life and just the desire to create.

This new piece was inspired by the little bird that sits out on the lamp post of my apartment building. I don't have lights in the place, just yet (there is no ceiling lights, you have to get lamps) and so I spend a lot of my time sitting by my patio door. This bird, shows up and just sits there and keeps an eye on the parking lot and I've sketched him (or her) a few times in my sketch pad and thought it would be cool to do something a bit more of a permanent piece.

Tools used:

Watercolour

Pen and Ink

(a little photoshop for the web version)

The Road (mock book cover)

A few days ago, I had finished reading "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. It was a really awesome read that kept my attention for a straight 24 hours (or however long it took to read).

After I was finished reading, I got this image in my head of the father and the son (the main characters) and their journey in the book. I sketched it out and came to think that it would look cool as a book cover. 

I decided to pull out my fiancee's watercolour set that she gave me and this is what I came up with.

Tools used: 

Watercolour

Pen and ink

Photoshop

Helping Nashville

I'm sorry for not posting these sooner. If your following me on facebook or twitter (http://twitter.com/morganeddington), then you probably know that I'm moving further south to Jacksonville, FL. This has been a big thing I've been focusing on for a few months and its finally coming to life.

A few weeks ago, I had decided to make a trip to Nashville to help with flood relief. I am pretty involved with my local church and whenever I can afford or find the time, I go on the mission trips to help with relief efforts and document what is happening. After talking to my missions pastor about going on a personal mission, he told me that they needed help in Nashville. My first thing was, make the time and pack up my camera and my body and get out there to help.

Now I have found a little time to post some of my favorite images from the few days I was there. I am not going to really describe what is happening or what happen in the images, so I'll just let you guys make up the stories you can get from them. When I finally move down to Jacksonville, I'll try to make a post talking a little more about it all.

Leave a comment, critique, do what you want... but most of all, think about what all is going on around you that needs attention. Its one thing to sit back and feel sorry and its another to get it done and help.

Almost done!

I just finished cleaning the mats and glass and also putting wiring on the back this morning. Time to hang these suckers up!

This artwork is just an on going series of work I've been working on for the past two years. As of now, six pieces are going up but I am hoping to have two new pieces that no one has seen yet up as well. 

There will be prints for sell and I will also be selling prints online (soon...), for those of you who can't attend the show.

Show at Corner Perk!

On friday of this week, I will be showing my artwork at the local coffee shop here in Bluffton called, Corner Perk.

Link - http://cornerperk.com/

Here is a glimpse of the artwork framed and sitting in my casa.

I'll have some images up on here from the night, later on when it happens!

Also, Brandon Clark will be coming down from Atlanta to play some good ol tunes during the event.

Alli Hall Jewelry

Screen capture of some of the images from the phootshoot for Alli Hall's jewelry portfolio.

Alli and the model, Cassie, looking over the images during a break...

Not gone...just busy

Hey everyone. I thought I would post on here since it has been awhile from the last one.

For those of you keeping up with my life on facebook or twitter, you know that I have a few new jobs along with the role of being a photographer. The jobs have kept me pretty busy, which is good! But it has caused me to not shoot as much. Some people think that I have given up on doing the photography thing, but I am just stepping back and preparing for my next swing at it. 

Living the life of a full time photographer is a really tough thing to do and I learned that from first hand experience. I don't really believe in giving up on yourself. I do think that its sometimes smart to step back and rethink things in a logical way, than to just jump head first and try to plug all the holes in the ship on the way.

Probably the greatest thing to come out lately, is the skatepark in Bluffton. It has most defiantly become my getaway. The kids and the guys hanging around there are really cool and on top of that, the park has a really nice flow to it. Its probably the one place, you will see me at, whenever I can get some time from work.

A few days ago, I decided to bring my camera with me and snap a few pictures of the locals. Unlike the last couple of times I've shot skateboarding, I decided to go with the natural light look, over using strobes.

In the next two images, I wanted to show the difference between using a wide angle and a zoomed lens. I wanted to achieve the same effect of getting all the same objects in, but show how each can have a totally different look.

This next image, I really like a lot. Sometimes as a photographer, you see things in life where you wish you had your camera to take a picture and this was one of those instances, that I was glad to have it with me. It reminds me a lot of Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" photo, minus the dust bowl. The only thing that I wish I could have done a little different was, catch this zoomed in. I got a zoomed in image of this, but the girl turned her face and ruined the moment. :-(