Kevin Ames on The Real Housewives of Atlanta
While photographing a magazine editorial at the splendid W Hotel Midtown in Atlanta, a television crew from Bravo Network’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta arrived to shoot the session.
Imperial Storm Troopers march on Atlanta
Yesterday while walking down Atlanta’s famed Peachtree Street a commotion happened. I looked up and made this photograph before being threatened by a storm trooper in full battle gear. It pays to carry a camera. Ok. You guessed it. It’s Labor Day weekend and the world’s largest gathering of science fiction and fantasy fans, DragonCon …
Late one Austin evening…
I was in Austin, Texas recently as a presenter for Sigma Photo Corporation at a show by Precision Camera. After dinner I noticed this ashtray bucket on the porch of the restaurant. It was late in the evening. Patrons had spent quite a bit of time outside smoking. They were gone by the time I …
The moon landing and my first camera
As I write this, the space shuttle Endeavor is in orbit along with the International Space Station. This makes the most humans in space at one time, ever. Forty years ago this afternoon Neil Armstrong piloted the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) Eagle to a safe although tense almost out of fuel landing on the lunar …
Forty years ago…
Forty years ago yesterday a Saturn 5 rocket topped by the Apollo Eleven mission lifted off from Cape Kennedy (now it’s back to its original name Cape Canaveral.) I was in the summer before my senior year of high school. I watched Walter Cronkite on a black and white Admiral set at home in Boise, …
Wonder wall
Like a lot of photographers I love black & white images. I explore color photographs in Photoshop and often convert them to monotone. There are so many different ways to convert full color into b&w that oftentimes I’ll spend an hour or so experimenting to see what resonates with me. Then I make a print …
Cabbagetown
This photograph was made during a walk through Atlanta’s Cabbagetown neighborhood. It’s an eclectic neighborhood that offers many great visual possibilities. This scene is just around the corner from Carroll Street, location of several good restaurants including the Carroll Street Cafe.
Atlanta under threatening skies
Sometimes the best photographs are made at the most unexpected times. It was late one Sunday afternoon on the Jackson Street bridge. It’s a favorite spot for shooting the city. I was making Atlanta skyline photographs. The clouds rolled in while I was shooting. The clouds became more and more intense. Then the deluge happened. …
Fantastic Portraits–It’s all smoke and mirrors
My New Year’s greeting features a photograph I made that was inspired in part by the pictures of smoke featured in a blog post last August. The portrait begins with a photograph of Corinna Allen, entertainment reporter for Atlanta’s CBS television station… The original photograph, a straightened version with a selection and the beginning of …
New Year’s Visitors
The parking lot at the studio was empty New Year’s afternoon except for these visitors from the nearby woods. The buck and doe were frightened by the siren from the neighboring ambulance service. The buck jumped an 8 foot fence clearing it by more than five feet leaving the doe to bolt the other direction …