Monthly Archives: April 2009

Tommy Tune Awards

Filed under Photo Links (my work), photos (mine)

So I get this email from the boss, accompanying an assignment to shoot the Tommy Tune Awards, the annual Theatre Under The Stars gala awards presentation for Houston-area high school musical theatre productions, and she says “shoot a lot; the boss wants to do a gallery.”

Okay. I can do a gallery.

The neat part of this was that I had the opportunity to shoot several of these productions during rehearsals, and I’ve shot most of the high school companies in west Houston one time or another over the last few years, so I KNEW I was in for something special. A boatload of work, for sure, but lots of fun and a fabulous show.

They did not disappoint. Kudos to all the participants, winners, nominees, coaches, parents, TUTS people… everyone.

Ladies and Gents, Grills and Bars, there’s one born every minute…


It’s SHOWTIME!!!!

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Preview

Filed under photos (mine)

On March 27, the VietNam Buddhist Center here in Houston hosted the 8th Day of Prayer and Pilgrimage honoring Quan Am, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. It would have probably been much more interesting had I the slightest clue what I was seeing, and I’d certainly be able to tell you much more about it, but I hadn’t and I’m not… but the visual aspects of it are striking anyway.

I’m currently working my way through several hundred photographs, winnowing them down to a manageable essay for my website. I will, in due course, link to it here. In the meantime…

Beautiful weather out. Go shoot.

Update: Essay is here. Depending on your screen rez, you may have to scroll down. There are a lot of thumbnails but they’re small, so it should load cleanly.