Fall Photo Wander Number 1

Tallassee Trade Day is coming up, and I'm intending on having some better fall pictures to display and hopefully sell some prints. I'm also trying to get some quality, commercially viable shots to submit to stock photography companies. My last attempts at getting accepted to sell stock photos through two companies were rejected, which is not surprising; no one gets accepted their first time out.

My camera and I took a little photo wander the other day to fill these needs. Below are the results.

Yates Lake Trip from August 2012

Back in late August, my in-laws rented a house on Yates Lake just on the other side of Tallassee, AL. Here are some pics I took while we were there. All of the portraits were taken with either natural light only or with a little bit of flash just to fill in the shadows. These were taken with my Nikon D70, which does a great job at outdoor pics.

First, we have some shots of the cutest kid EVER, Peter.

Next we have a shot of Paw-Paw through the back windows of the house and high school senior cousin Rachel on the back porch.

And the last thing I have for you are some lake scenery shots. It's fine by me if you right-click and use the pics below as desktop backgrounds, just so long as it doesn't keep you from getting anything done by making you daydream about being outside at the lake.

Mount Hebron East Baptist Church

On April 27, 2011, a little country church-house in rural central Alabama was completely destroyed in the midst of the worst "single-system tornado outbreak ever recorded." Ever since then, contractors and volunteers from both inside and outside of the church have been rebuilding a physical home for the people of Mount Hebron East Baptist Church.

On July 13 and 14, the Carpenters for Christ from Lakeview Baptist Church in Auburn, AL came out to install the trusses, roof decking, and roofing felt so that another group could come right behind to install the metal roof. When I heard that people from my old church were helping rebuild for people in my current Baptist association, I knew that I had to go offer some time and sweat to the project. It just wouldn't have been Christian not to.

If you are wondering, "What's this got to do with photography?" then accept the following pictures as an explanation.

In case you are wondering, yes, I did actually put in some labor on this project. No, not as much as some. I never made it onto the roof, which is where I've traditionally ended up. This time it was mostly step-and-fetch-it tasks though I did do a lot of cutting on day 2.

(Additional photos can be viewed on my facebook page.)